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.

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.

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.

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.

Sharks circle the games giant

Electronic Arts could be yanked off the stock market in a $50 billion deal that would make it one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history.

Older Intel CPUs could see more than 10 per cent rises

Gamers still buying Raptor Lake might be in for a nasty surprise, with Troubled Chipzilla reportedly set to lift prices on its 13th-gen parts by more than 10 per cent.

State-backed NAND maker looks to ease the memory crunch

China’s NAND champ YMTC is barging into DRAM to build its own high-bandwidth memory and unclog a shortage throttling domestic AI rollouts.

Latest slides take aim at Ryzen 9000 

Troubled Chipzilla has lined up its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs against AMD’s Ryzen 9000 and declared game on, complete with bar charts and brave talk.

Block follows Guardian spy revelations and months of staff unrest

Software King of the World, Microsoft has pulled some Azure and AI services from a unit inside Israel’s defence ministry after an internal review backed media reports about mass surveillance of Palestinians.

Watchdogs fear unfair after-market squeeze could sting customers

The European Commission is investigating SAP, the maker of expensive management software, which no one can be really sure what it does.  Watchdogs are interested in how the outfit flogs maintenance and support for on-premises software.