
Amazon spooked by tariffs
Looking to AI to sort things out
Bookshifter Amazon warned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street that the US tariff policy is battering its bottom line. Shares dipped 2.3 per cent in after-hours trading after the company had a weaker-than-expected forecast for the second quarter.

Amazon ditches Android for its Linux-based Vega OS
Retail giant wants to go it alone in the tech world
Amazon is taking a huge swing at the tech world by dumping Android and rolling out its own Linux-based Vega OS. The retail giant reckons it can reshape how millions use Fire TV devices and other hardware.

Amazon scrambles skyward to challenge Starlink
Bezos puts a rocket up SpaceX
After years of puff and prep, Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper is lobbing its first 27 satellites into orbit in a $10 billion (£7.8 billion) swing at Starlink, the Elon [Roman Salute] Musk-powered behemoth that lords over the skies.

AI crawler bots turn open source into a digital warzone
Anubis protects Xe Iaso's Git repository
Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers.

Dutch want to purge US software from government servers
Don't trust Musk and Trump
The Dutch want to reduce their dependence on Big US tech companies.

FTC censors anti-big tech posts from archives
Wants to become the Ministry of Truth
The Federal Trade Commission has seemingly taken a page out of the Ministry of Truth’s playbook, quietly deleting over 300 blog posts from its archives which are critical of big tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft.

Europe’s tech industry wants radical action
Europe first rather than propping up US big tech
Europe’s tech boffins have penned a desperate plea to the EU, demanding “radical action” to cut the bloc’s reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure before the whole thing collapses into a tech vassal state of the Yanks or the Chinese.

Amazon’s Zoox self-driving taxi in trouble with regulators
Lacks brake peddle and rearview mirrors
Amazon-backed Zoox’s self-driving taxi has hit a bureaucratic brick wall. US safety regulators have pointed out that the futuristic vehicle lacks basic kit—like a brake pedal and rearview mirrors.

Marvell has excellent results
But fails to meet Wall Street’s over-optimistic expectations.
Marvell Technology. took a pounding in late trading after delivering a revenue forecast that failed to match the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street’s daft, over-optimistic predictions.

UK cloud services market not working
Not enough competition, says CMA
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that competition in the UK cloud services market is not working as effectively as it should, potentially costing UK businesses hundreds of millions of pounds annually.