Amazon spooked by tariffs
Published in News
Friday, 02 May 2025 09:54

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
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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
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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
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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
Published in Cloud


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
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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
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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
Published in Transportation


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
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Thursday, 06 March 2025 09:10

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
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 10:04

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.