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October 31
- Microsoft Future Decoded: The three forces driving the AI revolution
- Days-long Microsoft outage leaving users unable to login to Office 365
- Google pledges £20m fund for AI-driven charitable projects
- Apple taps AMD for graphics in refreshed MacBook Pros
- IBM struggles to gain interest in blockchain offering
- Intel touts significant diversity gains ahead of 2020 target
- Government boosts board for UK Council for Internet Safety
October 30
- Apple Event: New MacBook Air, iPad Pro and Mac mini launched
- Apple unveils next-generation Mac mini
- Apple to investigate factory treating students "like robots"
- Budget 2018: Hammond announces Digital Services Tax to crack down on tech giants' "unsustainable and unfair" tax practices
- Google staff planning "women's walk" protest
- Nearly three-quarters of employees are forced to install work software on their personal devices
October 29
- Bing is promoting malware in “Google Chrome” searches
- Robots will build robots in ABB’s $150m “factory of the future”
- Microsoft explains why it still sells tech to the US military
- IBM snaps up Red Hat for $34 billion
- Western Digital reveals 'world's first' 15TB SMR hard drive aimed at data centres
- Cloud computing helps Google and Intel rake in revenue
- Exertis promotes Richard Hinds to COO for UK and Ireland
- Demand for cryptocurrency skills surges, but lacks cyber security expertise
- Openreach cuts costs of full-fibre connections to new homes
October 26
- Silver Peak and Westcon announce distribution deal
- Amazon cloud revenues up by nearly a half in third quarter
- Alexa for Business now open to third-party integration
- Google sacks 48 over sexual harassment claims
- British Airways says 185,000 more customers affected by second hack attack
- Microsoft Q1 results show cloud is still a major earner
- Vodafone switches on 5G trial network
- 11 top Arduino projects
- Cloud? Why not, says Lambeth council
October 25
- Remote code execution flaw found in Cisco WebEx
- Details emerge of Amazon's facial recognition deal with US immigration service
- Samsung and NEC join forces on 5G
- Cathay Pacific data breach hits 9.4 million customers
- Google to make deleting search history easier for users
- Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica data scandal
- Check Point acquires Dome9 to boost cloud security
- Apple and Samsung hit with fines in Italy for deliberate phone throttling
- Apple's Tim Cook criticises tech industry for rejecting spirit of GDPR
October 24
- FireEye accuses Russia of hacking Saudi chemical plant
- Google News bug eats up data and lands users with excess charges
- Yahoo to pay out £39 million after massive data breach
- Android app ad fraud scheme exposed
- Oxford researchers expose personal data harvesting in third-party Facebook and Google apps
- The UK and the Netherlands to keep cyber security partnership alight
- Linus Torvalds returns to work on Linux development
- Amazon Business Prime adds same day shipping and invoicing terms
- Fortinet acquires ZoneFox in bid to combat insider threats
October 23
- Oracle acquires Datafox
- Taiwan to share Chinese hacking attempts with private firms to train AI defences
- UK leads the way with its unicorns
- Teleopti joins the Cisco partner programme
- Morrisons loses data leak appeal
- Better password policies could result in less credential reuse, academics find
- Streetbees to create the 'worlds largest' human behaviour data store
October 22
- 3D printing technique could create artificial blood vessels
- Apple named best private sector company to work at
- University of Texas global database to help scientists explore effects of climate change on North Pole
- Dell XPS 13 vs Apple MacBook Pro 13in: Portable performance powerhouses
- EC approves Microsoft's purchase of GitHub
- Facebook hack: Three million EU users affected by breach
- AWS FreeRTOS vulnerabilities could crash IoT devices, warn cyber security researchers
- Samsung's Galaxy Book 2 debuts Windows 10 S 2-in-1 with Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 chip
- Alibaba opens data centre in London
- Gartner: Cloud will drive IT spending growth worldwide
October 19
- Facebook has hired Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs
- Pay.UK begins search for strategic payments partner
- Amazon delivers 1,000 new jobs to UK cities
- Errors with third-party NHS IT system led to “significant” patient risk
- Kyocera unveils content services team for businesses
- UK third-party data centre market is largest in Europe
- Atlassian's Jira software cloud is now generally available
October 18
- Facebook investors call for Zuckerberg to step down as chairman
- Apple launches privacy-focused website for data transparency
- NHS reveals digital framework to standardise tech deployment
- Samsung acquires analytics firm Zhilabs to monitor 5G network performance
October 17
- Global cyber security skills gap widens to three million
- New Signature and Edenhouse form cloud-centric strategic partnership
- Stampede rebranded as Exertis Pro AV in UK and Europe
- Twitter faces GDPR probe for refusing to comply with subject access request
- Google will charge phone makers to access its apps on Android within EU
- Altaro teams up with Cloud Distribution for VM Backup expansion
- Microsoft teams up with Huawei on hybrid all-flash Azure stack
- Cloud Academy guide will help match skills with business needs
October 16
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies aged 65
- Are you headed in the right direction for digital transformation?
- Google Cloud will power Atos London AI lab
- Twilio acquires SendGrid to add email capabilities
- NHS to pilot digital checks to clamp down on prescription fraud
- The UK will face a category one attack in the future
October 15
- MongoDB acquires mLab for $68 million to bolster its cloud services
- Tech firms sign up to government's IoT code of practice
- UK Government to consult on how tech giants are harming competition in the digital economy
- Cyber attacks on businesses surge by 55%, warns Malwarebytes
- IBM Multicloud Manager aims to simplify working across multiple cloud environments
- Google to offer G Suite cloud identification tool separately to developers
October 12
- Transport for London seeks IT service partners in £70m contract
- US military weapons systems found to have vulnerabilities
- Moonpig opens ‘Tech Hub’ in Manchester
- MPs called 'dumb' for asking a robot to testify
- Kent connected car infrastructure test aims to bust traffic jams
- Commvault CEO: Our tech is “on another world” to our competitors
October 11
- WannaCry cost the NHS £92 million, report estimates
- Progress Distribution app aims to unify channel data
- London's Zoological Society fights species extinction with Google Cloud
- WhatsApp fixes video call security bug that enabled hackers to take over app
- BBC News live broadcast crippled by IT migration glitch
- Red Hat announces SMB-focused partner programme overhaul
- Microsoft joins Open Invention Network in open source U-turn
- Commvault GO 2018: Commvault adds new HyperScale hardware for startups, MSPs and enterprises
- Commvault GO 2018: Commvault Command Centre will use AI to slash backup times
October 10
- Google launches appeal against record £3.8bn penalty over Android 'abuse'
- Nvidia looks to transform machine learning with DGX-2 and Rapids
- Government will handover Verify reins to the private sector
- Lexmark's new product series provides shot in the arm for channel partners
- Huawei to sell servers powered by own chips
- AI recruitment tool pulled by Amazon for sex bias
- EU expects first GDPR fines to be levied before year-end
October 9
- Google drops out of $10bn Pentagon cloud project
- Google Plus to shut down after massive data leak
- ICO fines Heathrow over USB stick fiasco
October 8
- OnePlus 6T officially confirmed to launch 30 October in New York
- US FAA authorises the shooting down of drones
- Geospatial Commission commits £5m to unlock value in partner location data
- Weak default passwords to be made illegal in California
- High Court blocks Google mass lawsuit over iPhone data
October 5
- Government pioneers £10m fund for regulators that target public sector innovation
- Instagram tests location history harvesting to help Facebook target ads
- Apple offers free coding lessons for EU Code Week
- Mist expands into UK with new partners and customers
- Silver Peak reveals partnership with Axians UK
- The UK, US and Netherlands accuse Russia of cyber attacks
October 4
- Financial email accounts of 5,000 UK organisations publicly exposed
- Cloudera and Hortonworks announce $5.2bn merger
- Wi-Fi Alliance replaces '802.11' naming scheme with version numbers
- BlueJeans aims for US with Ingram Micro channel deal
- Microsoft's new All Access programme offers cheaper Office and Surface bundles
- Palo Alto Networks to buy security startup RedLock for $173m
- Google buys AI chatbot startup Onward
October 3
- IP Expo: Technology needs audacity, risk and failure
- Matt Hancock: Social media an ‘urgent’ danger to children’s mental health
- Microsoft unveils updated Surface devices
- Firefox Focus tweaked with improved browsing features
- Big tech businesses are a threat to the Digital Services tax
- Summer dip in malware attacks credited to World Cup drama
October 2
- Fujitsu partners embrace new ScanSnap iX1500
- Microsoft puts MS-DOS up on GitHub (for reference purposes only)
- World’s tech hubs have little confidence in post-Brexit UK: survey
- Volkswagen adopts Microsoft Azure to build 'automotive cloud' with IoT connectivity
- UK government reveals £9m fund for digital healthcare ideas
- Google to lock down Chrome extensions
- HM Land Registry continues digital transformation with blockchain
- British Army looks to wearable tech for injury prevention
- MoD takes aim at hackers with Cadets CyberFirst programme
October 1
- AWS targets SAP HANA customers with high memory instances
- Tesco Bank fined £16.4m for failings in ‘largely avoidable’ cyber attack
- Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chairman in SEC fraud settlement
- Security flaw in Tory conference app leaks attendee data
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee aims to untangle the web of data misuse
- Microsoft will kill-off Skype Classic in November
- Bupa fined £175,000 due to worker attempting to sell customer data on the dark web