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March 31
- YouPorn and Pornhub activate HTTPS encryption
- Drone deliveries approved for Swiss skies
- US college hit by 54-hour Mirai DDoS attack
- Fake airline tickets catch out 90% of phishing targets
- Ofcom caps BT's Openreach prices
- Government effort to rein in tech firms on terror dubbed "lame"
- UKFast drops prices in response to AWS reductions
- Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
March 30
- Samsung turns the Galaxy S8 into a thin client solution
- Spending watchdog questions GDS's digital transformation credentials
- Facebook messenger not working? Your phone might be too old
- New tool masks your search habits from data harvesting ISPs
- DevTech aims to help channel migrate to the cloud
- EU wants to create backdoors to encrypted social media apps
- Oracle kills 'cloud entrance tax' by bridging on-premise-cloud gap
- Just 4% of contractors believe public sector is ready for IR35
March 29
- Microsoft patents a foldable Surface phone
- Article 50: UK tech sector reacts
- Women make up just 15% of tech roles at Uber
- Google shares open source documentation online
- Recruiters call for IR35 delay
- Android vs iOS: the battle for business: Apple releases iOS 10.3
March 28
- Dell launches new Wyse 3040 thin client with matching OS
- Johnny Depp 'will play John McAfee in an upcoming biopic'
- Intel's Optane aims to give hard drives the speed of SSDs
March 27
- Systemax sells off Misco to Hilco Capital
- Ofcom fines BT a record £42m for slow broadband installations
- Amber Rudd demands spy agency access to WhatsApp's encrypted messages
March 24
- Study reveals scale of antisemitism online
- 30% of UK jobs at risk of automation by 2030
- Amazon drones: Amazon makes first US delivery, but regulators still limit flights
- Broadband customers could get £185m for poor service
- UK needs £725m to boost public sector digital skills
- Google hopes to encourage black coders at Howard University
- Uber manager admits that sexism is "systemic in tech"
- Dell EMC and Intel's Cloud Ecosystem Hub make it easier to access resources
- Half of Android devices failed to get security updates last year
- DDoS attacks making hackers a 95% profit margin
March 23
- ZTE pleads guilty to selling US tech to Iran
- Email scam robs two major tech companies of $100 million
- Google Maps will let people track your movements
- Brexit sees 12% of London's startups lose funding
- Splunk and New Relic share data to power DevOps
- Red Hat partners with IBM for easier access to hybrid cloud
March 22
- UK tech sector boasts £7bn investment, but Brexit challenges loom
- Xbox Live, Office 365, OneDrive and Outlook.com suffer outage
- MongoDB makes it easier for OEM partners to deploy its database
- Marc Benioff: World is suffering a 'crisis of trust' over AI
March 21
- IBM launches first enterprise-ready blockchain service
- Three suffers another data breach
- IBM hosts Red Hat OpenStack on its own private cloud
- IBM Object Storage Flex offers 'pay as you go' archiving
- IBM 'tripling' efforts to help clients with GDPR and Brexit
March 20
- IBM partners with Galvanize to fill data science skills gap
- Surface Pro 5: Alien Covenant teaser reveals possible AMD Ryzen-powered Surface Pro 5
- Germany raises cyber attack risk level ahead of elections
- Intel announces first 3D XPoint-powered Octane SSD
- Cisco discloses Vault 7 vulnerabilities
- IT contractors earn more despite Brexit vote
- Uber president quits after just six months
March 17
- EU demands policy changes from Twitter, Google and Facebook
- NHS and DeepMind data deal was "inexcusable", say academics
- McDonald's blames anti-Trump tirade on "hacked" Twitter
- Google promises to do better after government pulls ads
- GCHQ brands claims it wiretapped Trump "utterly ridiculous"
- Google shrinks JPEGs by 35% with Guetzli algorithm
- Specialised security detection services threaten traditional MSSPs
- Russia denies it's responsible for Yahoo hack
March 16
- Google uses 10,000 contractors to limit Holocaust denial results
- Dozens of tech firms reject second Trump travel ban
- Winners of the UK Cloud Awards 2017 unveiled
- Apple Russia fixed iPhone prices
- Resellers can now set up their own PBX on Google, AWS or OpenStack
- Pulsant gets ready to deploy Azure Stack
- Capgemini sweetens digital collaboration at chocolate manufacturer
- Interoute unveils managed container platform
March 15
- Dodgy pics sneak into WhatsApp web
- Android Pay: What is it and how do I use it?
- MPs accuse Facebook, Google and Twitter of "peddling hate"
- Decentralised data centres 'could edge out cloud'
- Google to throttle Chrome tabs to boost battery life
- Schneider launches Ecoflair solution to reduce datacentre cooling costs
- DeepMind algorithm gives ‘memory’ to AI
- UK tech industry "lags behind" in worker happiness
- Twitter hack: third-party app breach sees scores of accounts hacked
March 14
- France withdraws electronic vote over hacking fears
- Big Data surveillance 'risks public's privacy'
- Facebook bans firms from spying on users' data
March 13
- Thousands of NHS Wales employees' data stolen in massive hack
- DeepMind discusses AI with the National Grid
- Android smartphones found with pre-installed malware
- Ingram Micro steps in to offer Office 365 referral programme
- Tim Berners-Lee: How we can win back the web
March 10
- BT finally lets go of Openreach
- Coupa and Solmate boost partnership in Benelux
- Nine in ten businesses will be using data analytics by 2020
March 9
- AI to power majority of customer interactions by 2025
- GV invests £20m in UK startup Currencycloud
- Eben Upton: Why it's a long road to the Raspberry Pi 4
March 8
- Northern firms turn to apprentices as Brexit bites
- Travis Kalanick seeks COO to help him run Uber
- UKCloud boosts partners search for G-Cloud 9
- WikiLeaks files expose alleged CIA hacking tools
- AMD targets the datacentre with Naples chip
March 7
- IBM and Salesforce join forces to create hybrid AI
- HPE to pay $1 billion for Nimble Storage to boost flash
- Spammers 'leak database of 1.4 billion users'
March 6
- ICO investigates data's role in political campaigns
- IBM Q opens up quantum computing to businesses
- Just 3% of women plan to embark on careers in tech
- Google engineers teach cloud training courses
March 3
- AWS blames human error and S3's gargantuan scale for outage
- Snap IPO value hits $30 billion at close of market
- 1 million Coachella festival goers hacked
- VeloCloud raises $35m to boost SD-WAN business
- Servers continue to decline as hyperscale datacentres take over
- HPE Pointnext launched to help digital transformation
March 2
- Google discontinues Pixel laptops
- China calls for "international peace" in cyberspace
- Oracle brings Exadata cloud inside the data centre
- Liberty launches legal challenge against Investigatory Powers Act
March 1
- Judge refuses FBI request to force iPhone fingerprinting
- Government puts digital skills at the centre of UK's future
- FCC chairman signals roll back of net neutrality
- Microsoft kills off Skype WiFi
- Hootsuite CEO caught in reporter spat