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December 31
- Season's greetings - wishing all our readers well
December 21
- Slack has started blocking users who visited US sanctioned countries
- NCSC accuses China of targeting global MSPs in malicious cyber campaign
- Facebook to enter crypto market with WhatsApp stablecoin
December 20
- EU debates GDPR joint liability ruling for websites using social widgets
- Micron CEO says recovery is imminent after share price plummet
- A third of cyber attacks exploit unsecure remote working
- O2 declared 'most reliable operator' across UK despite recent network outage
- UK's tech hubs continue to dominate national economy
December 19
- Google Cloud creates works of art using big data
- EU communications hack linked to Chinese spies
- Half of UK firms lack the correct insurance for cyber security
- NASA launches investigation into internal server breach
- Microsoft reveals ‘Windows Sandbox’ mode for Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users
December 18
- France tackles tech giant taxation
- Twitter flags suspected state-sponsored attack after unusual activity from China and Saudi Arabia
- NICE publishes standards for procuring NHS tech
- Met Police rolls out controversial facial recognition tech in London
- Microsoft invests in UK AI chipmaker
December 17
- UK cloud adoption outpacing the EU average
- Australia passes controversial anti-encryption law
- Google Cloud says it won't sell general facial recognition software
- Irish regulator opens second inquiry into Facebook
- Improve your security or the printer gets it
December 14
- Deutsche Telekom to review 5G vendors over China security fears
- NAO blasts MoD and Capita over botched Army digital transformation project
- No-deal Brexit will block critical data transfers from EU, warns ICO
- Microsoft announces behaviour visualisation tool Clarity
- Dell's storage dominance continues as market surges 19.4%
- The 100 worst passwords of 2018 revealed
December 13
- China’s AI research still behind the west, but not for long
- “Treasure trove” of 66m records suggests LinkedIn data scraping
- WannaCry-linked cyber attacks target US government & defence
- TUC demands the government creates a million high-tech jobs by 2030
- Oracle files lawsuit over $10bn Pentagon cloud contract
December 12
- Dell will go public again, after buying VMware tracking stock
- Spike in Brexit-themed phishing attacks expected once withdrawal agreement is finalised
- Fresh EU Directive strengthens powers against financial cyber fraud
- Google worried about insider threats from temporary workers and contractors
- Supermicro finds no evidence of China spy chip infiltration
- China hacking surges against US, claims Trump's former cyber security adviser
- China bans sale of older iPhone models due to Qualcomm patent dispute
December 11
- Bosses’ lack of cyber security knowledge putting clients at risk, FCA warns
- Former Equifax CEO blamed for "entirely preventable" data breach
- Second Google+ API bug exposes private data of 52.5 million
- FOI reveals NHS Trusts spend as little as £250 on cyber security
- BlackBerry tackles smart city security with free management tools
December 10
- O2 outage: Telefónica to demand millions in compensation from culprits Ericsson
- European banks bleed millions from physical cyber attacks through devices like the Raspberry Pi
- Government will ban NHS from buying fax machines
- Microsoft touts recommendations for facial recognition tech legislation
December 7
- Amazon warehouse robot accident leaves 24 hospitalised
- IBM sells software portfolio to HCL for $1.8 billion
- Qualcomm announces 'extreme' ARM chip for thin and light PCs
- Microsoft Edge Browser adopts Chrome-based code
- O2 outage: 4G services fully restored as networking giant launches review
- Microsoft breaks Windows 10 again for Surface Book 2 users
- China was behind the Marriott Hotel hack, claim investigators
December 6
- Google Cloud's Security Command Centre enters beta phase
- More than 90% of European tech investment handed to all-male teams
- Digital tax levy and Brexit will 'force tech investment overseas'
- Salesforce adds IoT insights into cloud-powered Field Service mobile app
- Published Facebook documents expose data sharing agreements, Android firmware exploits
- Gov launches £4.5bn motorway alliance to help pave the way for connected vehicles
December 5
- Google still personalising search results after years of denial, says DuckDuckGo study
- BT to extract Huawei tech from 4G infrastructure over security concerns
- Google Flutter 1.0 enables apps to run on both Android and iOS using a single code base
- Liberty claims government data-sharing deals lead to rights violations
- Qualcomm reveals Snapdragon 855 chip ready for 5G in the UK and beyond
- 'Voice-first' strategy will become norm for businesses by 2023
- CodeClan re-launches partner programme to match employers with grads
December 4
- Researchers blast Swedish developer WakeNet AB for ‘deceptively’ spreading adware
- IBM chosen to push cloud-native banking platform
- Quora breach exposes 100 million users’ information
- Skype rolls out AI captioning for callers with hearing difficulties
- Mastercard and Microsoft to jointly develop universal digital ID technology
- UK-Nigerian ‘London Blue’ hacking gang target CFOs in phishing campaign
- MI6 chief echoes concerns over Chinese tech
- Innovate UK earmarks £150,000 to explore automation tech to deliver citizen advice
- Google DeepMind uses AI tech to predict protein shapes
- Ada Lovelace Institute appoints first board members
December 3
- National Grid turns to AI to process drone data
- Unsecured server leaks details of 32 million Sky Brazil subscribers
- Kaspersky loses Court of Appeals battle to reverse US government ban
- Microsoft modernises Office icons hinting at streamlined design for the productivity suite
- Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch faces fraud charges over $11bn sale to HP