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September 28
- Google, Microsoft and IBM join the Institute of Coding’s Industry Advisory Board
- Developers need not fear the no/low-code movement
- FinancialForce software will benefit from AI and enhanced user experience tweaks
- O2 and Three to flush 5G through the sewers
- Government will review how data can save consumers money in ‘ripoff’ markets
- Elon Musk accused of fraud by SEC
- Fancy Bear cracks into government computers with LoJax UEFI rootkit
- Microsoft's Surface Laptops win back Consumer Reports 'Recommendation'
- Duo Security uncovers vulnerabilities in Apple's managed device program
- Businesses can now sell products through Amazon Pay
September 27
- AI tools will be expected as the norm for next-gen workers, says Salesforce
- AI bias must be tackled to avoid it 'unknowingly' harming people
- Tech giants call for national data regulations that subvert California's GDPR-style laws
- Google u-turns on 'auto sign in' and cookie collection after backlash
- Cloudflare allies with Microsoft, IBM to cut bandwidth costs
- macOS Mojave release date and specs: Mojave 'still full of security holes' despite promises of tougher protections
- Uber fined $148m for attempting to hide 2016 data breach
September 26
- NHS faces regulatory action over unpaid data protection fees
- Slack acquires startup Astro, kills off its email platform
- British Airways, Ticketmaster and Newegg hacks part of massive Magecart formjacking campaign
- Qualcomm says Apple stole trade secrets to help out Intel
- Fujitsu launches UTC cyber security group to give tech students a career head start
- Mozilla's Firefox Monitor will let you know if your email has been stolen by hackers
September 25
- Microsoft unveils an AI-powered search experience across Windows, Office and Bing
- £500 million stolen by scammers in first half of 2018
- Microsoft 365 brings Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure cloud
- UK government visits US to deepen medical technology ties
- Facebook to offer robots to schools that learn code
- IBM to release tailor-made Watson AI packages for business
- New Google feature to help bridge the skills gap
- Virgin Mobile hands over control of spending caps to customers
- Microsoft aims AI tech at businesses with Cortana Skills Kit for Enterprise
- Apple and Salesforce form strategic partnership focused on mobile development
September 24
- Microsoft will integrate LinkedIn more tightly with Office and Outlook
- Comcast beats Fox-Disney partnership to takeover Sky for £30bn
- NHS Digital awards £1.4m to fund local council data sharing projects
- Google secretly logs users into Chrome via Gmail and its other services
- Unwiped servers and drives from NCIX appear on Craigslist
- Adobe snaps up Marketo for $4.75bn to bolster Experience Cloud
September 21
- UK police machine learning trials go unregulated
- Zero Day Initiative disclosed unpatched Microsoft Jet database flaw
- RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank rocked by Friday morning outage
- Google admits to third-party Gmail access
- Amazon's APL language will bring Alexa to more displays
- GCHQ and MoD to form £250m ‘joint cyber-force’
- Apple reveals iPhone Xs, Xs Max & XR smartphones: iPhone Xs and Xs Max available to buy today
September 20
- Samsung plans to lower chip growth amid demand slowdown
- Barclays online banking: “Technical problems” lock customers out of accounts
- New Xbash malware is a ransomware and cryptocurrency mining double-threat
- Equifax hit with maximum £500,000 fine after massive security breach
- Google's Work Insights lets you know when employees are abusing company policies
- Newegg users’ credit card info breached in month-long data hack
September 19
- Apple hands over €14.3 billion in back taxes to Ireland
- Failed NHS IT system will cost £7m to stabilise
- Fewer immigrants with tech skills are being turned away from the UK
- IoT malware tripled in the first half of 2018
September 18
- TV Licensing admits it led 25,000 people to send unencrypted bank details
- Government systems 'unprepared' for no-deal Brexit
- Government scrimps on UK quantum computing investment, offers £80m not desired £338m
- World Economic Forum lambasts AI bias
- Facebook expands bug bounty program to include third-party apps
- Ransomware attack cripples Bristol Airport's arrival and departure boards
September 17
- NHS Trust launches campaign to eliminate fax machines from the health service
- Councils harvest thousands of people's data to predict child abuse
- Nearly 1 in 2 payment transactions in Europe are now contactless
- Amazon chasing employees for acting as rogue 'data brokers'
- Lenovo will "aggressively" target HPE and Dell EMC storage customers
- Cyber criminals try swiping email logins and bank data in single HRMC phishing scam
- Number of women learning computer skills slumps by a third
September 14
- Nationwide pumps £4.1 billion into digital transformation drive
- Trainline's AI and Twitter data fuelled disruption alerts help commuters stay on track
- Free mobile roaming could end in EU if no deal Brexit
- IBM-backed blockchain Yellow Pages-style registry launched
September 13
- Lenovo partners with NetApp in storage portfolio shakeup
- GCHQ’s mass data collection practices breached human rights law, European court rules
- Companies “over-reporting” data breaches as ICO takes 500 calls per week
- EE to convert its 3G spectrum to 4G in readiness for 5G
- Businesses at risk of data theft through 'classic' cold boot attack
- DDoS attacks and mobile fraud are surging in 2018
- Reading, Leeds, and Cardiff are the cities best at attracting cyber security talent
- Microsoft and MasterCard partner to improve global trade costs with business platform
- BlackBerry Spark targets security and smarts for enterprise IoT networks
September 12
- iOS 12 release date, features, news and rumours: Latest iOS will launch on 17 September
- Unsecured MongoDB database exposed 200GB of Veeam customer data
- GPs unable to fully access digital patient records after faulty update to IT platform
- NCSC challenges business leaders to learn the 'basics' of cyber security
- watchOS 5 release date and specs: WatchOS 5 will roll out 17 September
- AWS could boldly go where no cloud provider has gone before
- Tesla keyfob vulnerable to spoofing attacks
- Facebook's AI tech can spot hate speech by reading text from photos and videos
- British armed forces lack IT professionals, report MPs
- Colt will add six new halls to North London data centre
- Carbon Black: 92% of businesses have been attacked in the last 12 months
- Natwest chooses Qudini for customer booking system
September 11
- Apple removes Trend Micro tools from Mac App Store over “data exfiltration” claims
- Could 5G be arriving sooner than expected?
- National Audit Office finds UK government IT merger delayed national security vetting
- Public cloud used to power supercharged DDoS attacks
- Code used to hack BA passenger data discovered
September 10
- Rigetti Computing unveils quantum computing cloud service
- Republic of Ireland pilots tax savvy chatbots with help from Accenture
- Sky aims to double its ultrafast broadband base with Openreach partnership
- Dell dominates as enterprise storage market surges
- Virtual and augmented reality expected to be mainstream in businesses by 2021
- IBM reportedly used NYPD surveillance footage for object identification tech
- Apple launches global law enforcement web portal for data access
September 7
- AI can develop prejudice without human input
- ICO: Public more trusting of companies to hold their data than a year ago
- Facebook chooses Singapore for its $1bn data centre expansion
- US charges North Korean hacker with WannaCry and Sony hack
- Fresh wave of public sector projects launched for £20m GovTech Catalyst scheme
- Payments glitch leaves Army locked in a battle over bonuses
- Mozilla changes its stance on website tracking, will now block data collection by default
- British Airways reveals massive data breach, could face £500m fine under GDPR
September 6
- Digital transformation projects undermined by severe skills shortage
- AI revolution at risk of 'fear-driven public backlash'
- New code of conduct aims to protect patient data from NHS AI deals
- Chrome 69 gets better password protection and a redesign
September 5
- An AI is better at diagnosing heart disease than a doctor
- MIT researchers teach AI to spot depression
- Amazon becomes second trillion dollar company after Apple
- Google to ignore US Senate hearing over political ads
- Samsung's foldable smartphone could launch this year
- Always-on connections stress 40% of mobile workers
September 4
- Sajid Javid demands social media firms act over online child sexual abuse
- Security is the main concern for business smartphone deployment
- TSB outage: CEO Paul Pester quits after IT meltdown
- Microsoft finally drops 'Highlights' feature from Skype
- BT snaps-up NHS contract for South East England
September 3
- Media and telco consortium calls for social media regulation
- Microsoft abruptly shuts down its Surface Plus financing programme for consumers
- Britain's tech talent is facing an AI brain drain
- ‘Five Eyes’ nations hand tech giants encryption ultimatum
- OpenStack Rocky released with bare metal support
- Gov opens roadwork data to app developers with £10m initiative
- Two thirds of businesses not prepped for death of Windows 7