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June 29
- Adidas data breach: Millions of customers' data at risk
- Smart city misconceptions are alienating the public, MPs warn
- HP: 3D printing can cut IT's supply chain carbon footprint
- Maplin finalises store closures
- Microsoft adds post translation and QR code features to LinkedIn
- Google, Microsoft, and Facebook's GDPR settings 'dupe' users into sharing data
- Tintri lays off almost all its employees
- NHS suffered more than 1,300 hours of downtime in the last three years, FOIs show
- SD cards hit 128TB capacity and gain advanced data transfer protocols
- Twilio's Build programme seeks API-savvy partners
- Ensono now owns Wipro's hosted data centres
June 28
- Google laments missing out on buying GitHub
- Ticketmaster data breach affects 40,000 UK customers
- Slack outage: Slack gets knocked down, but gets up again
- Doctors reject AI chatbot that is 'more accurate than a GP'
- Dimension Data snaps up SAP commerce specialist e2y
- Daisy Group CEO steps down
June 27
- AI will power Britain’s post-Brexit boom, says Matt Hancock
- NHS Digital seeks private healthcare data to augment its own patient records
- London's latest cyber security hub opens its doors to 72 startups
- DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis to advise government on AI innovation
- Uber granted a 15-month licence to operate in London
- IBM serves up better Wimbledon 2018 highlights with Watson AI
- Wi-Fi Alliance rolls out WPA3 to boost wireless security
June 26
- Mozilla to embed Have I Been Pwned in new security system
- Liberty Global picks Cisco to unify the customer service platforms across its separate brands
- Oracle bundles cloud revenues, claiming it reflects hybrid approach
- EE launches 300Mb Gfast broadband
- Rural businesses demand better 4G coverage
- Electoral regulator calls for changes to voting law to save democracy
- Proportion of female IT contractors increases by 25%
June 25
- HMRC 'disregards data protection', collecting 5m UK citizens' voice recordings
- The Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 is gunning for Intel's PC market
- CompTIA's cybersecurity scheme targets parents and graduates
- NHS Digital to fund digital social care pilots across UK
- Apple offers free fixes for faulty MacBook keyboards
- Amazon workers protest sale of facial recognition tech to US immigration service
June 22
- SAP stole our trade secrets to build HANA, alleges Teradata
- Newcastle is the fastest growing tech hub outside London
- Businesses must play proactive role in tackling skills gap, says Institute of Coding
- Demand for Kubernetes skills soars eight-fold in two years
- Microsoft to buy Bonsai to boost AI developer tools
- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to step down after 'workplace fling'
June 21
- SMBs now need MSPs more than ever
- Vodafone selects seven UK cities for 5G trials in late 2018
- Chinese-linked hacking group Thrip launching malware attacks on satellite and defence companies
- BT walloped with £70K ICO fine for 5 million spam emails
- European Parliament creeps closer to creating 'robo-copyright regime'
June 20
- Channel 'can whet UK's appetite for flexible-consumption IT models'
- CEO Antonio Neri wants to address HPE's diversity imbalance
- HPE’s edge compute systems now support full-fat datacentre software
- HPE launches hybrid cloud-as-a-service offering
- Olympic Destroyer malware that plagued the Winter Olympics has returned
- Microsoft staff urge Satya Nadella to end ICE contract
- MIT researchers build a nano chip that can power a bee-sized drone
- Aruba's SD-Branch hooks SD-WAN, wired and wireless networks together
- HPE invests $4 billion in edge computing
June 19
- Datto bigs up successes post Autotask merger
- HPE updates flexible consumption model for channel partners
- Facebook plans free training for small businesses struggling with user privacy
- Zacinlo malware threatens Windows 10 PCs' security
- Tech consortium aims to double women and BAME-founded startups
- AWS to create 1,000 new tech jobs in Ireland
June 18
- Dropping ICT from curriculum 'will worsen UK's skills gap'
- Kaspersky halts all European security projects in response to EU ban
- Google diversity report shows efforts are "not enough"
June 15
- Tier 2 visa reform reaction: Government puts tech industry before "arbitrary caps"
- HP Inc loses Personal Systems chief
- NAO: Universal Credit won't ever deliver value for money, but there's no longer an alternative
- Google App Maker gives end users a low-code way to automate tasks
- Tech Talent Charter aims for 500 signatories with £100k funding boost
June 14
- Microsoft Azure Stack underpins Thales' military Nexium Defence Cloud
- Why London is the best place to be an app developer in 2018
- Hackers love the UK, but not for the reason you think
- Dropbox plans SMR deployment to transform its Magic Pocket infrastructure
- IBM expands cloud availability with 18 new zones
- Microsoft pushes Windows 10's Fluent Design into Office
- South Wales Police given ultimatum to drop facial recognition tech
- Apple's 'USB Restricted Mode' closes security loophole on locked iPhones, thwarting police data extraction
- Google pushes into Africa with AI centre in Ghana
June 13
- Privacy Shield should be suspended, say MEPs
- Government invests £2.5bn in high-growth tech fund
- Home Office to offer startup visas to foreign tech entrepreneurs
- Dixons Carphone data breach: Company admits attempted hack exposed details of 5.9 million bank cards
- London Tech Week: London can rival Silicon Valley, says deputy mayor
June 12
- CEBIT 2018: Huawei to bring 5G to German smart city project
- Why GDPR creates a "vicious circle" for marketers
- Yahoo handed £250,000 fine over 2014 data breach
- Microsoft to pull forum support for Windows 7 and 8.1 from next month
- CEBIT 2018: Huawei launches hybrid cloud offering on Azure Stack
- Russia will stream the World Cup in VR with 5G
- Net neutrality laws are now officially dead
June 11
- Automation could save NHS '£12.5bn a year'
- Google gets serious about cloud with sole-tenant nodes
- Gartner: Supply shortages, not demand, are behind soaring server revenues
- Mayor of London hails capital's AI firms as he reveals smart city roadmap
- Sharp to acquire Toshiba's PC business
- 50% of UK businesses 'are leaving data at risk'
- Gavin Patterson to leave BT as firm swings axe at 13,000 staff
- Deutsche Bank will use cloud to transform cheque processing operations
June 8
- Microsoft bought GitHub to rebuild developer trust, says new CEO
- 14 million Facebook users 'may have had their private posts shared publicly'
- London is the "undisputed" tech capital of Europe, says Sadiq Khan
- Google publishes ethical code for AI following Project Maven fallout
June 7
- WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins faces four new charges
- Google faces an $11 billion EU fine for Android's market dominance
- CIOs are 'out of touch' with end users' needs
- Scientists build drones capable of detecting violence in crowds
June 6
- MyHeritage suffers massive data leak affecting 92m users
- Large businesses 'overlook' supplier cybersecurity risks
- Microsoft drops a clean energy data centre into the North Sea
- Legacy middleware grows 12% in shift to digital
June 5
- Quantum computing could help fight terrorism, says UK gov
- “It’s the legacy that gets you”, warns ex-TalkTalk boss
- Microsoft Azure is set to offer 12TB virtual machines
- WWDC 2018: Nine things you might have missed from Apple's annual developer conference
June 4
- Visa pins end-of-week outage on 'hardware failure'
- Gartner says AIM market is changing business models
- Facebook defends data-sharing deals with more than 60 device makers - including Apple and Blackberry
- MIT nano-sensor breakthrough could revolutionise disease treatment
- UK and Israel strengthen tech ties with an AI partnership
June 1
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told to 'emulate George Washington not Vladimir Putin' at shareholder meeting
- Researchers develop AI to fool facial recognition tech
- Dell Virtustream gains certified cloud provider status for Australia