| Hello and welcome to the Computerworld UK weekly digest. This week we had a reporter in China covering Huawei's Connect conference to hear about the company's latest efforts to dominate the AI market. It was also mental health awareness week and we published some advice on how to offer support to employees from our partners at recruitment site Jobbio. You should also go an check out our sister site Techworld, where the staff rounded up some of the efforts the UK tech sector is taking to raise awareness and help people suffering from mental health issues. Lastly we had rounded up the top four vendors in the quickly growing robotic process automation (RPA) software space, and sat down with Carnival to talk about its IoT efforts across various cruise brands. Data breach of the week: A security bug was discovered this week which allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015. Google discovered and patched the issue in March, and because so few people use Google+ it only affected 438 apps and up to 500,000 users, with no actual breach of personal information being reported at this time. The problem comes down to an internal memo revealed by the Wall Street Journal where top level executives decided to not reveal the breach due to fears of "us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal." ICYMI: There was a big merger in the big data vendor landscape last week, as the two commercial Hadoop specialists Hortonworks and Cloudera cut their losses as competitors and joined forces. Here's everything you need to know about the deal. Thanks for reading and, as always, please do get in touch with feedback, tips, and thoughts. Scott Carey, Computerworld UK Editor | 
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