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Graeme Burton is Group News Editor at Computing, V3 and Inquirer.

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Ocado to build robotic fulfilment centre in Japan in new deal with retail chain Aeon
Ocado to build robotic fulfilment centre in Japan in new deal with retail chain Aeon

Ocado has signed another technology deal - this time taking its advanced warehouses and robotics technology to Aeon in Japan

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 29 November 2019
Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords
Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords

TfL acts for a second time following August security breach - again blaming the risk of credential stuffing

  • Security
  • 29 November 2019
Ocado to open mini customer fulfilment centre in Bristol
Ocado to open mini customer fulfilment centre in Bristol

Ocado's mini-CFC is expected to achieve productivity similar to the company's full-size warehouses

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 28 November 2019
Google sued over alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising
Google sued over alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising

Inform claims Google used anti-competitive practices to shut it out of the online advertising market

  • Communications
  • 27 November 2019
Xerox threatens (again) to take its HP Inc buyout offer direct to shareholders
Xerox threatens (again) to take its HP Inc buyout offer direct to shareholders

'Your refusal to engage in mutual due diligence with Xerox defies logic,' Xerox CEO John Visentin tells HP Inc

  • Hardware
  • 27 November 2019
Tim Berners-Lee launches 'Contract for the Web' to govern internet giants and governments
Tim Berners-Lee launches 'Contract for the Web' to govern internet giants and governments

Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee's 'global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone'

  • Communications
  • 25 November 2019
General Election 2019: Conservatives promise full fibre for every home by 2025 and R&D incentives for cloud computing
General Election 2019: Conservatives promise full fibre for every home by 2025 and R&D incentives for cloud computing

Promise of £5 billion funding to underpin full-fibre pledge alongside boost to cloud computing with shake-up of R&D credits

  • Leadership
  • 25 November 2019
Russia passes law forcing 'locally produced' software onto people's devices
Russia passes law forcing 'locally produced' software onto people's devices

This is a local internet for local people…

  • Security
  • 22 November 2019
General Election 2019: Labour manifesto promises free fibre and fines for Facebook over online bullying
General Election 2019: Labour manifesto promises free fibre and fines for Facebook over online bullying

Social media companies to face "legal duty of care" to protect children online, NCSC role to be reviewed and extended, and Charter of Digital Rights promised

  • Leadership
  • 22 November 2019
Microsoft updates privacy policy following intervention by EU data protection watchdog
Microsoft updates privacy policy following intervention by EU data protection watchdog

Microsoft amends cloud privacy policy following investigation by European Data Protection Supervisor

  • Security
  • 18 November 2019
Labour plan to nationalise BT Openreach and provide 'free' fibre broadband for all
Labour plan to nationalise BT Openreach and provide 'free' fibre broadband for all

TalkTalk pulls sale of FibreNation business and BT shares fall following new Labour giveaway offer

  • Communications
  • 15 November 2019
Oil giant Pemex falls victim to $5m ransomware in attack linked to gang behind Dridex
Oil giant Pemex falls victim to $5m ransomware in attack linked to gang behind Dridex

Pemex falls victim to DoppelPaymer ransomware linked with same group that was behind Dridex and BitPaymer

  • Security
  • 13 November 2019
Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack
Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack

Attack may be linked with complaints from activists that the portal for ordering election leaflets had failed

  • Security
  • 12 November 2019
Amazon Echo Show, Sony Smart TVs and Netgear routers all cracked in Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019
Amazon Echo Show, Sony Smart TVs and Netgear routers all cracked in Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019

Pwn2Own 2019 contestants share a total of $315,000 in this year's Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo with Team Fluoroacetate crowned 'Master of Pwn'

  • Security
  • 11 November 2019
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X will cost less than £600 when it is released on 25th November
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X will cost less than £600 when it is released on 25th November

Ebuyer reveals surprisingly low UK price for Ryzen 9 3950X

  • Hardware
  • 08 November 2019
AMD launches third generation Threadripper offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads for £1900
AMD launches third generation Threadripper offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads for £1900

AMD claims up to 90 per cent improvement boost for third-generation Threadripper compared to Intel's $2,000 Core i9-9980XE

  • Hardware
  • 07 November 2019
Uber could licence Waymo self-driving technology following expert review
Uber could licence Waymo self-driving technology following expert review

Uber warns that its future is dependent on the development of self-driving technology - and that it trails rivals in autonomous vehicles

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 07 November 2019
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 'grudge' leak of payroll data 'grossly unjust'
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 'grudge' leak of payroll data 'grossly unjust'

Morrisons tells Supreme Court that it should not be held vicariously liable for payroll data leak by senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton

  • Security
  • 07 November 2019
Patients turned away at King's College Hospital after patient records system goes down
Patients turned away at King's College Hospital after patient records system goes down

Consultants unable to see patients as Sunrise-EPR patient records system goes down for a second time in recent months

  • Leadership
  • 06 November 2019
Uber self-driving vehicle accident that killed pedestrian blamed on software flaws
Uber self-driving vehicle accident that killed pedestrian blamed on software flaws

Uber's autonomous vehicles behind 37 crashes in the previous 18 months

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 06 November 2019
Azure Arc will enable Microsoft cloud users to manage resources across AWS and the Google Cloud
Azure Arc will enable Microsoft cloud users to manage resources across AWS and the Google Cloud

Azure Arc will bring 'Azure services and management to any infrastructure', claims Microsoft

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 05 November 2019
US to licence Huawei suppliers "very shortly", says US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
US to licence Huawei suppliers "very shortly", says US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

Number of US suppliers to Huawei "frankly more than we would've thought", admits Ross

  • Security
  • 04 November 2019
Google to buy Fitbit in $2.1bn deal
Google to buy Fitbit in $2.1bn deal

Google promises to give Fitbit users the opportunity to delete their data, should the deal be approved by regulators

  • Hardware
  • 01 November 2019
Homebase adopts low-code development to roll-out shopfloor mobile apps
Homebase adopts low-code development to roll-out shopfloor mobile apps

Homebase plans to roll-out a series of low-code applications in belated digital transformation

  • Software
  • 01 November 2019
ICO to police: Live facial recognition 'raises serious concerns'
ICO to police: Live facial recognition 'raises serious concerns'

ICO calls for a statutory code of conduct to stop police misuse of live facial recognition technology

  • Security
  • 31 October 2019
Hackers linked to China compromised telecoms network to monitor world leaders' messages
Hackers linked to China compromised telecoms network to monitor world leaders' messages

Chinese intelligence targeting 'upstream data entities', such as telecoms companies, in order to compromise world leaders' communications

  • Security
  • 31 October 2019
Twitter bans political advertising
Twitter bans political advertising

"Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse," CEO Jack Dorsey declares in 'sub-tweet' aimed at Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

  • Security
  • 31 October 2019
Business 5.0 is coming: The convergence of AI, IoT, blockchain, APIs, smart contracts and hybrid computing
Business 5.0 is coming: The convergence of AI, IoT, blockchain, APIs, smart contracts and hybrid computing

Convergence of a plethora of new technologies will be key to the 'programmatic enterprise' of the future, says McKinsey and IBM advisor John Straw

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 31 October 2019
Facebook strikes deal with ICO over Cambridge Analytica
Facebook strikes deal with ICO over Cambridge Analytica

Facebook to pay £500,000 fine without admission of responsibility

  • Security
  • 30 October 2019
AMD posts highest quarterly revenues since 2005, but results still disappoint
AMD posts highest quarterly revenues since 2005, but results still disappoint

AMD quarterly sales highest since 2005, claims CEO Dr Lisa Su, driven by rising sales of Ryzen and Epyc CPUs

  • Hardware
  • 30 October 2019
Microsoft nicks $10bn JEDI Department of Defense cloud contract from AWS
Microsoft nicks $10bn JEDI Department of Defense cloud contract from AWS

Amazon 'surprised' to lose out to Microsoft in monolithic military cloud contract

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 28 October 2019
Cloud computing helps Microsoft increase revenues by 14 per cent in first quarter results
Cloud computing helps Microsoft increase revenues by 14 per cent in first quarter results

Strongly rising cloud and services revenues - including from LinkedIn - more than offset lower product sales

  • Software
  • 24 October 2019
Blockchain could kill off the City of London and the taxes that pay for the NHS
Blockchain could kill off the City of London and the taxes that pay for the NHS

Blockchain will render the City of London irrelevant, taking with it the personal and corporate taxes that effectively fund the NHS, warns Business 5.0 expert John Straw

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 24 October 2019
IBM disputes Google claims of 'quantum supremacy'
IBM disputes Google claims of 'quantum supremacy'

IBM accuses Google of over-hyping its quantum computing claims

  • Hardware
  • 23 October 2019
Microsoft introduces Secured-Core PCs with built-in firmware protection
Microsoft introduces Secured-Core PCs with built-in firmware protection

Micrososft's Secured-Core PCs intended to put a stop to UEFI rootkit shenanigans

  • Security
  • 22 October 2019
Amazon Echo and Google Home apps can spy on users and phish for passwords
Amazon Echo and Google Home apps can spy on users and phish for passwords

Lackadaisical security around apps for Amazon and Google personal assistants could enable malicious attackers to v-phish for passwords or eavesdrop on households

  • Hardware
  • 22 October 2019
Microsoft's EU contracts non-compliant with GDPR, warns European Data Protection Supervisor
Microsoft's EU contracts non-compliant with GDPR, warns European Data Protection Supervisor

Result of ongoing investigation raises 'serious concerns' over Microsoft's compliance with data protection rules, EDPS indicates

  • Security
  • 21 October 2019
Russian hackers hijacked Iranian cyber-attack infrastructure to launch attacks on the UK
Russian hackers hijacked Iranian cyber-attack infrastructure to launch attacks on the UK

Turla, linked to Russia's FSB security agency, hacked Iranian tools and infrastructure to mask its attacks on the UK, US and Middle East

  • Security
  • 21 October 2019
Microsoft SQL Server 11 and 12 backdoor, accessible with 'magic password', linked to Chinese APT
Microsoft SQL Server 11 and 12 backdoor, accessible with 'magic password', linked to Chinese APT

ESET researchers attribute sophisticated MS SQL Server backdoor tool to China's Winnti Group, also known as APT17

  • Security
  • 21 October 2019
Avast targeted in suspected new supply-chain attack
Avast targeted in suspected new supply-chain attack

Avast reveals details of new attempted supply-chain attack just two years after CCleaner compromise

  • Security
  • 21 October 2019
Equifax used default 'admin' user name and password to secure hacked portal
Equifax used default 'admin' user name and password to secure hacked portal

Lawsuit claims that Equifax IT security was negligent and that the company made 'false and misleading statements' about its IT security and data protection compliance

  • Security
  • 21 October 2019
'Psychological safety' the most important factor in successful teams, claims veteran technology team builder Tom Geraghty
'Psychological safety' the most important factor in successful teams, claims veteran technology team builder Tom Geraghty

A work culture in which failure is encouraged helps teams to experiment, work better together and will be more adaptable to change, argues Geraghty

  • Leadership
  • 16 October 2019
Thoma Bravo to buy Sophos in £3.1bn deal
Thoma Bravo to buy Sophos in £3.1bn deal

Thoma Bravo offer has been 'unanimously recommended' by the board of Sophos

  • Security
  • 14 October 2019
Bill McDermott quits as CEO of SAP
Bill McDermott quits as CEO of SAP

Bill McDermott to be replaced by Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein as co-CEOs

  • Software
  • 11 October 2019
One-in-five IT pros 'affected by mental health concerns' due to work pressures
One-in-five IT pros 'affected by mental health concerns' due to work pressures

Rate of mental health concerns three times higher in 'unsupportive' companies, according to survey by recruiter Harvey Nash

  • Leadership
  • 10 October 2019
Vodafone to run first European OpenRAN technology tests in the UK
Vodafone to run first European OpenRAN technology tests in the UK

OpenRAN to be trialled by Vodafone in 120 rural areas across the UK

  • Communications
  • 07 October 2019
BA customers given the green light for class-action lawsuit over 2018 data breach
BA customers given the green light for class-action lawsuit over 2018 data breach

Half-a-million BA customers affected by 2018 Magecart security breach can join class-action lawsuit, High Court rules

  • Security
  • 07 October 2019
US, UK and Australia demand that Facebook stop plan to introduce end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp
US, UK and Australia demand that Facebook stop plan to introduce end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp

End-to-end encryption will 'hinder or prevent' serious criminal investigations, authorities claims

  • Security
  • 04 October 2019
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