Amazon Fire TV to dump Android for Linux in 2025
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
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
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
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.
EA close to $50bn buyout deal
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.