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Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle

When you’re shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference?

AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 18

Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule

It's not as if space is hard, is it?

Science13 Sep 2023 | 8

Vodafone and Amazon shoot for the stars while Kuiper satellites remain grounded

Bezo birds to provide a mobile backhaul. When they finally launch

Networks05 Sep 2023 | 4

The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit

Updated Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk... not the bestest of buddies?

Networks04 Sep 2023 | 15

'AI-written history' of Maui wildfire becomes Amazon bestseller, fuels conspiracies

Bizarrely, Bezos's bookshop is also promoting a book about the book

AI + ML18 Aug 2023 | 28

Stalking victims sue Tile and Amazon for negligence over tracking tech

Plaintiffs say recent partnership has 'magnified' danger and allege bypass of anti-stalking feature is allowed

Personal Tech17 Aug 2023 | 16

Amazon uses AI to write reviews of people's product reviews

From one untrusted source to another ... and another

AI + ML14 Aug 2023 | 5

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week

SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68

Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says

On-Prem03 Aug 2023 | 39

A federal watchdog to police Big Tech? Yeah, that'll do the trick, senators...

Sorry, FTC, didn't mean to step on you like that

Personal Tech27 Jul 2023 | 9

Google Cloud shores up log permissions for builder bot

Infosec in brief ALSO: Amazon's child-sized COPPA fine, smart tech security labels coming to the US, and this week's critical vulns

Security24 Jul 2023 | 2

Amazon sets up shop at Kennedy Space Center to prep Kuiper broadband satellites

Web super-biz dreams of lobbing 3,000-plus internet-relay birds into orbit

Networks22 Jul 2023 | 25

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

If it walks like a duck...

PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2023 | 62

Amazon's robo vacuum power grab sucks EU attention

Regulators concerned iRobot could receive preferential treatment on the company's ecommerce platform

Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 19

Ex-Amazon manager jailed for stealing $10M using fake vendor invoices

Prime doesn't pay – well, not that much, anyway

Cyber-crime06 Jul 2023 | 15

Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers

Big $50,000 fines for misleading posts... unless it's political, natch

Personal Tech30 Jun 2023 | 21

AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B

Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3

Amazon Prime too easy to join, too hard to quit, says FTC lawsuit

Updated Dark patterns at Amazon worthy of a Homeric epic? Surely not!

Applications21 Jun 2023 | 70

Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim

Racist tirade at delivery driver never actually happened

Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 246

Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors

Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter

PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1

DoD networks Amazon's off-grid DCs using SES's new MEO sats

TLA WTF IMO

The Reg in Space12 Jun 2023 |

Lantum S3 bucket leak is prescription for chaos for thousands of UK doctors

Updated Freelance agency exposed personal details that would be highly valuable in the wrong hands

Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 12

Has Amazon found the ultimate lock-in? Cheap cellphone service for Prime

Updated Web giant downplays rumors of deals with carriers

Networks02 Jun 2023 | 19

Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods

Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise

AI + ML02 Jun 2023 | 20

Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine

Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!

Security01 Jun 2023 | 91

Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere

Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android

Software25 May 2023 | 7

Amazon a prime target of warehouse law protecting bathroom breaks

Glad these lawmakers didn't bottle it

On-Prem18 May 2023 | 31

Tech companies cut jobs to chase growth, but watch out for those shareholder returns

Beancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs

On-Prem15 May 2023 | 10

Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience

Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft

PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1

Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment

'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss

PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 10

Amazon, Bing, Wikipedia make EU's list of 'Very Large' platforms

Will need to sit at the front of the class where Commish can keep an eye on them

Legal26 Apr 2023 | 21

Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips

Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs

Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 3

Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds

Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband

Off-Prem17 Apr 2023 | 23

AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice

Updated Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs

AI + ML14 Apr 2023 | 2

Amazon: Diamonds are a quantum network's best friend

While we're just here for De Beers

Networks06 Apr 2023 | 8

Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets

A reminder you can still opt-out

Networks28 Mar 2023 | 33

Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review

Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus

Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 47

SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut

Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share

Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 31

Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?

Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers

Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 10

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe

Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15

Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in

10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash

Personal Tech13 Mar 2023 | 12

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Don't say you weren't warned

Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 75

MacStadium brings macOS instances orchestrated by Kubernetes to AWS

Another option for devs burned by VMware snubbing Apple platforms

Devops28 Feb 2023 | 13

Global finance wonks worry financial services too invested in outsourcers, Big Tech

Not keen on crypto, either – and looking forward to consistent language on cyber incidents

Legal27 Feb 2023 | 2

This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider

Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info

Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36

Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff

'Easier to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together' 3 days a week, says CEO

Systems20 Feb 2023 | 151

Zoox blurs line between workers and crash test dummies in robo-taxi trial

Amazon-owned biz puts its staff first

AI + ML14 Feb 2023 | 28

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead

Science10 Feb 2023 | 36

Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells

And not the green hydrogen kind

Systems06 Feb 2023 | 10

Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?

As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services

PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13

Amazon warehouse workers 'make history' with first official UK strike

GMB union demands 45% pay rise as members struggle with cost of living

Personal Tech25 Jan 2023 | 56

We blew too much money hiring like crazy so we gave you the boot – Amazon

Meanwhile, layoffs continue at Twitter, Meta, WeWork, many others

On-Prem20 Jan 2023 | 13

Warehouse safety citations could cost Amazon seconds in revenue

That'll definitely teach them to look out for their workers

Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 7

Amazon's attempt to crush New York union slapped down

Wouldn't it be a terrible shame if other warehouses now followed JFK8's footsteps

On-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 15

2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch

Both companies knew about the patent, claims lawsuit

Legal10 Jan 2023 | 22

Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data

Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort

PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15