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April 30
- CompTIA exam aims to boost cloud comprehension in business
- PwC report outlines British CEOs' views on AI
- Grocers to use blockchain to track food by 2020
- UK government launches fintech accelerators with Asian trade in sight
- More than half of IT professionals have suffered a data breach
- UK tech sector 'resilient' despite lack of optimism
April 29
- Dell unveils cloud-based endpoint management platform
- Michael Dell heralds “a new age of miracles”
- Dell set to triple its AMD server offering
- BBC shows disrupted by technical "gremlins"
- JLR trialling crypto rewards for data sharing
- Apple is in another antitrust allegation debacle
- AI analyses tweets to help figure out flood risks
- Government appoints ambassador to tout British cyber security tech abroad
April 26
- Inquiry launched into the UK's Huawei 5G decision leak
- Google changes process for reporting harassment and discrimination
- Bitfinix's alleged business fraud drops all cryptocurrency valuations $10 billion
- Irish data regulator looking into Facebook password gaffe
- Microsoft says expiring passwords are no longer secure
April 25
- NCSC will no longer flag security breaches to data regulator
- Slack's new integrations signal the end to war on email
- Microsoft hits $1 trillion after Azure surge
- GCHQ to share real-time data with banks to fight cyber crime
- Samsung takes aim at Intel with $116bn chip investment
- Intel's 9th-gen mobile CPUs to support 5GHz laptops
April 24
- Windows 10 May 2019 Update blocked for users with USB drives and SD cards
- Charitable startups good for the UK economy
- EU Parliament green-lights massive biometric database for immigration control
- Huawei granted partial access to UK telecoms infrastructure
- ICO spots gap in government's online harms white paper
- Apple spends $30m a month on AWS
April 23
- Nokia 9 PureView fingerprint scanner 'can be fooled with a packet of gum'
- Government launches free digital courses to up-skill adults
- Microsoft employees revolt against China's 996 working week
April 18
- Starbucks founder Howard Schultz declares innovation only counts if it’s disruptive
- Acer takes aim at business users with ConceptD line
- IT spending will see only 1.1% growth in 2019, forecasts Gartner
- HP reveals boosted professional-grade laptop lineup
- Kaspersky Lab aims to improve security awareness with a training platform
April 17
- AI Industry "overwhelmingly" white and male
- Canadian government sued over Google's smart city plans
- Insights 2019: Epicor rolls out AI-powered digital assistant
- Insights 2019: Epicor CEO warns against the dangers of ‘over-automating'
- Apple and Qualcomm agree surprise settlement
April 16
- TSB to refund all fraud victims
- Algorithm could spoil Game of Thrones character deaths
- Cyber attacks on Ecuador double after Julian Assange arrest
- Apple and Qualcomm's chip trial begins
- Article 13 gains European Council approval
April 15
- Apache fixes dangerous RCE flaw in Tomcat application server
- Romanian hackers convicted of cyber crimes, 400,000 affected
- Tech giants oppose bill to outlaw unauthorised IoT device recordings
- Gatwick drone attack an 'inside job,' officials say
- Firms failing to implement watertight cyber security incident response plans
- Outlook.com hack much worse than initially thought
- Bounty fined by ICO for unlawfully sharing member data
April 12
- ‘Devastating' Dragonblood flaws discovered in WPA3 protocol
- Google Plus back from the dead as ‘Google Currents’ enterprise workspace app
- Police to use phone-detecting tech to catch drivers in the act
- 5G rollout may be held back by lack of understanding
- US drafts bill to rid algorithms of bias
April 11
- Julian Assange arrested inside Ecuadorian embassy
- AWS and Microsoft fight it out as the last JEDI contenders
- Coinbase launches Bitcoin-powered debit card
- Two-thirds of hotel websites leak personal data
April 10
- Nvidia delivers cutting-edge graphics rendering to any Google Cloud device
- What it takes to grow a unicorn
- Windows to ditch 'safely eject' USB warning
- HPE and Nutanix join forces to deliver hybrid cloud as a service
- Yahoo offers $117.5m settlement for 2013 monster hack
- What is Anthos? Google’s brand new multi-cloud platform
- Python is now more popular than Java among developers
- EE dominates mobile market as fastest network provider
- Rolls-Royce uses gaming to power STEM recruitment drive
- UK gov collaborates with industry on £170m tech institutes
April 9
- Complex Flame malware ‘faked its own death’
- Apple fooled out of $1m by iPhone knockoffs
- NHS to boost X-ray scanning with space tech
- Chromium-powered Edge preview released into the wild
- EU aims to control AI ethics with stringent guidelines
- Microsoft joins forces with HackerOne to boost bug bounties
April 8
- Home Office admits to Windrush compensation data breach
- New Zealand privacy commissioner brands Facebook as "morally bankrupt"
- Huawei 5G ban could cost UK economy £6.8bn
- ICO fines Newham Council £145,000 for gang data gaffe
April 5
- WhatsApp Business for Apple iOS rolls out worldwide
- Google scraps embattled AI ethics board after a week
- Bayer pharmaceuticals hit with China-attributed malware
- Microsoft overhauls Windows 10 updates to avoid broken releases
- D-Link routers under siege from months-long DNS hack
- Samsung Galaxy S10’s ultrasonic sensor fooled by fake finger
- Amazon joins the race for space-based broadband
- Birmingham New Street becomes UK's first 5G train station
April 4
- IT chiefs are compromising security for smoother business operations
- Third-party Facebook app leaked 540m user records on AWS server
- Capita warns schools to stop using its pupil data-sharing platform
- SAS and Siemens partner on AI for cloud and IoT data
- UK Gov alerts businesses to surging costs of cyber attacks
April 3
- Intel launches more than 50 new 2nd-gen Xeon Scalable chips
- Gartner forecasts public cloud revenue rise
- BMW embraces Microsoft Azure to create cloud-based Open Manufacturing Platform
- Mobile banking apps are holding data insecurely
- WordPress iOS app leaked security tokens to third-parties
- MPs form data privacy taskforce to keep pressure on big tech
April 2
- ITV and Google Cloud partner to fortify streaming capabilities
- IoT malware threats ballooned in 2018
- ICO hints at Facebook hypocrisy over data protection goals
- Google AI panel faces backlash as staff protest right-wing council member
- Windows 7 market share finally declines ahead of January 2020 end-of-life
- Facebook considers Article 11-friendly news section
April 1
- Government intervention pivotal to boosting rural 4G
- ‘Worldwide GDPR’ part of Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto for tech regulation
- SMEs to benefit from automatic broadband compensation scheme
- Jeff Bezos allegedly hacked by Saudi Arabia
- Toyota suffers second data breach in five weeks
- Cyber attack sees 2.15 million card details stolen from Planet Hollywood parent company
- Amazon unveils Alexa for Business Blueprints to enable custom voice apps
- TSB will take IT in-house after meltdown