Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud Apple prices meet Dell style Dell has entered the earbud market with a product you can manage from the cloud.… #theregister #IT

Dell enters the earbud market with cloud-manageable kit

: Apple prices meet Dell style

800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar In recent years technology buyers have endured hardware price rises due to a pandemic and its impact on supply chains, the global wave of inflation that followed, tariffs, and surging demand for AI technologies that al… #theregister #IT

800,000 tons of mud may make electronics more expensive

: Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar

Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers They would say that, wouldn’t they? Apple and Google have both urged the European Union to revisit its Digital Markets Act (DMA), which both tech giants say is failing.… #theregister #IT

Apple, Google tell Europe the Digital Markets Act is a FAIL

: They would say that, wouldn’t they?

Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy Intel has reportedly sought an investment from rival chipmaker TSMC.… #theregister #IT

Intel asks TSMC for help ending its reliance on...TSMC

: Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy

Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies Video  Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.… #theregister #IT

Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI

Video: You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies

Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians' The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and G… #theregister #IT

Microsoft cuts off Azure surveillance support for Israel

: Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians'

X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten… #theregister #IT

Qualcomm details X2 Elite Extreme, its most potent SoC yet

: Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5

North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.… #theregister #IT

Lazarus RAT code resurfaces in North Korean IT-worker scams

: Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full

Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the larg… #theregister #IT

Amazon settles FTC Prime lawsuit, much to Khan

: Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42 Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government… #theregister #IT

GrokAI offers services to Feds for just $0.42

: Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors