Qualcomm sticks with TSMC’s 2nm N2P for next two Snapdragon Elites
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Chipzilla rival braces for soaring wafer prices

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was its last flagship built on the 3nm process. Now the San Diego mob is tipped to move to TSMC’s shiny new 2nm node, but not the bog-standard N2 flavour.

Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
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Bezos’s empire fancies more cash from your telly habits

Amazon is preparing to ditch Android on its Fire TV gadgets and shove in a home-grown Linux-based system codenamed Vega OS.

Berners-Lee says the web has gone off the rails
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Inventor pushes for user-owned data and a CERN-style AI project

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee reckons the internet is in a mess, hijacked by social media platforms that turned people into products rather than customers.

Trump demands Microsoft fires top staffer
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Lisa Monaco accused of being a security risk

US president Donald Trump is demanding that the Software King of the World, Microsoft fire its new global affairs boss Lisa Monaco, claiming she is a threat to national security.

Apple’s iPhone factory still a labour horror show
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Foxconn accused of dodgy contracts, wage delays and discrimination

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is once again facing awkward questions about the way its prized iPhones are churned out in China by its besties Foxconn.