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January 31
- BT Group extends Kyndryl deal to migrate legacy mainframe apps to the cloud
- Oracle’s Java subscription changes spark concerns over cost hikes for smaller businesses
- Tech Nation to cease operations as government funding dries up
- Nuvias UK partners with Pentera to deliver its security validation platform
- Cyber criminal groups wooing hackers with seven-figure salaries and holiday pay
- Business leaders continue to raise salaries as tech layoffs mount
January 30
- Yandex data breach reveals source code littered with racist language
- 10 million customers exposed in JD Sports cyber attack
- US extradites French ShinyHunters hacker, faces 123 years in prison
January 27
- Dell snaps up cloud orchestration startup Cloudify
- Bitwarden users raise alarm over 'highly convincing' Google malvertising risks
- FBI's landmark takedown of Hive ransomware 'unlikely' to land significant impact
January 26
- UK government set to subsidise chip manufacturing in bid to cut overseas reliance
- CISA: Phishing campaign targeting US federal agencies went undetected for months
- Dutch hacker steals data from virtually entire population of Austria
- NCSC warns UK under state-sponsored spear-phishing attacks from Russia and Iran
- Mitel set to acquire Atos’ unified communications and collaboration business Unify
- Scottish scale-ups buck global investment trends with record-breaking year of funding
January 25
- More than half of tech workers ‘pre-emptively’ applying for roles in anticipation of layoffs
- GoTo admits hackers stole customer backups in LastPass breach
- Report: Regulatory and monetary incentives needed to adopt safer programming languages
- Microsoft cloud revenue still sky-high as device sales continue to slide
- Delinea appoints David Castignola as new CRO, sales leader
January 24
- Cloud growth experiencing ‘slowdown’ amid rising economic disruption
- Suncorp signs three-year Azure deal to complete multi-cloud migration by 2024
- Up to 350,000 open source projects vulnerable to 15-year-old Python bug
- Cognizant snaps up Manchester-based IoT specialist Mobica
January 23
- Japanese telco NTT to invest $3.5 billion in Indian data centres
- AWS splashes $35 billion to expand data centres in Virginia
- GTA V vulnerability exposes PC users to partial remote code execution attacks
- Mailchimp data breach impact unravels as second customer reveals extent of damage
January 20
- Hack The Box to triple workforce and drive global expansion in wake of Series B success
- MSI to release securer BIOS settings after critical flaw discovered
- T-Mobile customers at heightened risk of phishing attacks in wake of data breach
- Google to cut global workforce by 12,000 roles
- Node4 appoints Hannah Birch as managing director for digital services
- IT Pro News in Review: Public sector IT spending concerns, new MacBook Pro series, Canon expansion
January 19
- Bharti Airtel continues data centre "expansion spree" with £200m Hyderabad investment
- Tech industry takes vast lead in green energy spending, biggest companies vie for top spot
- ServiceNow serves up new incentives as part of partner programme overhaul
- Windows 11 System Restore bug preventing users from accessing apps
January 18
- Survey: How are IT decision makers spending their money this year?
- Cost of living crisis driving salary concerns for C-suites
- Google Ads malvertising campaign prompts questions around Search security
- Job hunters in tech no longer lured away by salaries alone
- China’s Tencent cracks down on corruption and fires more than 100 employees
- Gartner: Now is the time to capitalise on recession-proof IT spending
- Canon opens two new business centres in the UK and Ireland
January 17
- Dell unveils 13 new PowerEdge servers to boost data centre performance
- New M2 MacBook Pro series boasts longest-ever battery life
- Security experts develop method of generating 'highly evasive' polymorphic malware using ChatGPT
- Businesses must overhaul “outdated” recruitment mindset to tackle dearth of privacy expertise
- Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Azure OpenAI to support cloud services
- Cognizant appoints former Infosys president Ravi Kumar as CEO
January 16
- English public sector IT spending soars while small cohort of vendors dominate market
- Microsoft releases scripts to restore shortcuts deleted in faulty Windows Defender update
- AWS launches Australia's first local zone for low-latency workloads and data residency
January 13
- Windows Defender update deletes Start Menu, Taskbar, Desktop shortcuts
- Google Cloud Marketplace changes highlight sharpened customer focus for 2023
- Vodafone plans job cuts as part of €1bn savings strategy
- Meta sues ‘data scraping for hire’ service that collected info on 600k users
- Xerox acquires managed print services provider Advanced UK
- Royal Mail ransom note leaked, LockBit’s role remains uncertain
January 12
- Microsoft reportedly gives US workers unlimited time off
- Worldwide PC shipments suffer ‘biggest ever decline’
- Security and marketing are the top software spending priorities for 2023
January 11
- What you need to know about the new features coming to Microsoft Teams Premium
- Vantage Data Centers enters London market with £500 million investment
- BioNTech signs £560m acquisition of UK AI firm InstaDeep to turbocharge drugs research
- Intel pitches new 4th Gen Xeon chips as its "most sustainable" data centre processors
- Microsoft's 'unusually large' Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited zero day, 11 critical vulnerabilities
- Microsoft UK snaps up former Kyndryl executive to lead its solutions business
January 10
- US 5G operators welcome new freedoms as FAA, airport concerns approach end
- Cloud-delivered malware attacks almost tripled in 2022
- “Botched government procurement” leads to £24 million Atos settlement
- Surging Kubernetes costs causing “significant impact” for IT professionals
- IBM poaches Microsoft VP who becomes first female chief executive of its UK&I business
January 9
- UK insurer announces ‘world-first’ cyber catastrophe bond
- FCC plans strict overhaul of 15-year-old US data breach regulations
- Security updates for Windows 7 finally end, users urged to upgrade
- Australian gov renews IBM contract for quantum computing, AI
January 6
- Cyber attacks on UK organisations surged 77% in 2022, new research finds
- WhatsApp to combat internet blackouts with proxy server support
- Play ransomware gang behind recent cyber attack on Rackspace
- IT Pro News in Review: ChatGPT banned in pentest exams, 3G dead in the US, and Silicon Valley engineering salaries top $1m
- Aryaka names new vice president of channel sales for EMEA
January 5
- Latest Meta GDPR fine brings 12-month total to more than €1 billion
- Rapid7 hires whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko a year after Twitter sacking
- Research: Luxury cars and emergency services vehicles vulnerable to remote takeover
- Amazon, Salesforce to cut 26,000 jobs as tech layoff spree continues
- IBM replaces Partner World programme with new IBM Partner Plus
- Small businesses lament Sage's monthly subscription changes amid rising costs
January 4
- First Microsoft union formed by ZeniMax workers
- HP launches PCs for hybrid workers with 'world-first' dual-camera setups
- Software engineering salaries top $1m in Silicon Valley
- Cyber attack on car dealership Arnold Clark forces systems offline
- Microsoft pins hopes on ChatGPT to supercharge Bing search engine
- NetApp appoints Dell veteran as new channel lead for UK and Ireland
January 3
- Shopify bets on 'Audiences' tool to combat Apple's tracking restrictions for retailers
- Verizon ends 3G support in US, finalises nationwide shutdown
- Offensive Security bans use of ChatGPT in cyber security certification exams
- LockBit issues rare apology for Toronto SickKids ransomware attack