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Things that are not PogChamp: Amazon's Twitch has its source code, streamer payout data leaked

Updated Fingers 'server config' error that allowed 'malicious third party' to peruse files

Security06 Oct 2021 | 20

US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage

PA, MA bring in National Guard to plug gaps, while Boston teacher tells of stripper bus hired for school trip

Bootnotes29 Sep 2021 | 91

Labour Party proposes raising UK Digital Services Tax (so Amazon can pass the hike on that, too?)

Retailers not enthused

Off-Prem29 Sep 2021 | 76

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Updated Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut

Storage28 Sep 2021 | 4

Amazon's AI chips find their way into Astro butler bot, latest wall-hanging display

Video $1,500 gets you a robo-dog that can't handle stairs ... so here's a flying camera, too

AI + ML28 Sep 2021 | 12

Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes

4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*

Off-Prem20 Sep 2021 | 50

Amazon UK business swelled by 50%+ in 2020, and taxes soared. Lol, no, it means those paid by its staff

Jeff Bezos founded biz at the 'apex of the Big Tech tax avoiders'

Off-Prem17 Sep 2021 | 30

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

Minimum Margin Agreement policy is anticompetitive, it is claimed

Personal Tech13 Sep 2021 | 6

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is so flexible it wants to be called by a new name

Meet Amazon OpenSearch Service, more or less the same code, without the trademark infringement

Software10 Sep 2021 | 3

Amazon to cover 100%* of college* tuition* for hourly employees* in the US

* Terms and conditions apply. See in store for caveats. No purchase necessary

Offbeat09 Sep 2021 | 30

Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly

Yes, that Amazon. The one that's been fined for breaches of privacy and labor laws and accused of price-fixing, making life hell for unions …

Legal09 Sep 2021 | 66

Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants

22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan

Off-Prem08 Sep 2021 | 3

In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun

Altered priorities ahead

SaaS24 Aug 2021 | 15

Facebook and Amazon take over Philippines-to-USA sub cable after China Mobile quits

USA's Clean Networks plan appears to have scuppered Chinese participation in 108Tbit/sec CAP-1 cable

Networks16 Aug 2021 | 31

US labor official suggests Amazon's Alabama workers rerun that unionization vote

'Free and fair election was impossible'

Personal Tech04 Aug 2021 | 48

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

You miss every shot you don't take, we guess

Personal Tech30 Jul 2021 | 44

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2021 | 18

Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system

Updated Some customers have a 'unique set of needs' SaaSy vendor says

SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 29

Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere

Reg reader reveals colossal 821-item collection of Amazon trademarks tucked away on its site

Bootnotes23 Jul 2021 | 27

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

Feature We've come a long way from Terry Wogan's celeb interviews

Networks22 Jul 2021 | 90

You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between

Feature What really happens after you disappear into Bezos' talent hoover?

Off-Prem21 Jul 2021 | 82

UK's Digital Markets Unit – the Big Tech watchdog – remains toothless for now but statutory powers due this year

Better get a wiggle on because the work is stacking up, those potentially massive fines won't write themselves

Legal20 Jul 2021 | 2

Total recall: Amazon faces legal action from US consumer protection group over hazardous goods

24-page complaint lists thousands of products deemed to be unsafe

Legal15 Jul 2021 | 21

UK's biggest trade union takes aim at Amazon over 'price gouging' allegations

Nothing to see here, says gargantuan online retailer, thrilled as ever to chat with a union

Legal14 Jul 2021 | 25

OpenSearch, the AWS-sponsored Elasticsearch fork, reaches 1.0 milestone

Long-running legal dispute looks close to settlement

Off-Prem13 Jul 2021 | 7

Amazon will know when its business, privacy practices keep you up at night – it has an FCC-approved sleep radar

Every breath you take, every move you make ...

Personal Tech13 Jul 2021 | 15

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

Tax-efficient tech giants in firing line

Legal12 Jul 2021 | 82

Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

Company donates the whole shooting match to the newly formed foundation, joins as founding member

Software07 Jul 2021 | 12

Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract

Updated Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military

SaaS06 Jul 2021 | 66

Reserve Bank of India warns against Big Tech's potential to dominate financial services

Don't be allured by the siren sound of inclusion and lasting efficiency gains, says report

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 12

Another JEDI saga that doesn't need a sequel: Oracle petitions Supreme Court over Microsoft Pentagon contract

Big Red and Amazon just can't let $10bn cloud award go

PaaS + IaaS02 Jul 2021 | 18

Ex-boss of UK's Competition and Markets Authority asks: How can it tackle Big Tech when no one knows what the CMA is?

On the other hand, he did have two years to raise watchdog's profile

Legal02 Jul 2021 | 15

Amazon: Our carbon footprint went up 19% last year but we grew even more than that, so 'carbon intensity' is down

Alrighty... that's OK then?

Offbeat01 Jul 2021 | 27

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

Apparently Eastenders' Phil Mitchell is in charge these days - it sounds fighty

Legal28 Jun 2021 | 41

Green MSP calls on Scottish government to stop spending £4.7m a year with AWS after Amazon 'dumping' allegations

'Public money should be going to small companies and those who need to recover from the pandemic'

Off-Prem26 Jun 2021 | 34

AWS launches BugBust contest: Help fix a $100m problem for a $12 tshirt

Did we mention you'll soon be paying to play in 30 days, too?

Security25 Jun 2021 | 25

UK competition watchdog launches investigation into fake review epidemic across Google and Amazon

Refuses to give tech giants a five-star rating

Legal25 Jun 2021 | 20

Amazon notices Apple, Google cutting app store commission rates, follows suit

Keeps small-time devs on the reservation with AWS credits, too

Applications18 Jun 2021 | 12

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?

Personal Tech17 Jun 2021 | 36

Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage

Bootnotes16 Jun 2021 | 71

$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight

Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen

Science14 Jun 2021 | 33

FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips

Delivery drives to get refund

Personal Tech11 Jun 2021 | 44

Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock

Couple now definitely past their Prime

Legal11 Jun 2021 | 38

Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity

Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns

Systems11 Jun 2021 | 52

Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec

Let's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor

Networks10 Jun 2021 | 7

There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself

With his brother in tow, poor sod

Science07 Jun 2021 | 50

Amazon warehouse workers are seriously injured more frequently than those at similar companies – unions

Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks

Personal Tech02 Jun 2021 | 25

Amazon puts an $8.5bn MGM in its shopping cart, clicks on checkout

For Bezos, clearly the world is not enough

Personal Tech26 May 2021 | 38

Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit after DC AG says TTFN to price fixing

It started out as an innocent book store and now it's Barnes & Ignoble

Personal Tech25 May 2021 | 14

Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner

Multi-cloud for data is too complicated

Off-Prem19 May 2021 | 7

Apple announces lossless HD audio at no extra cost, then Amazon Music does too. The ball is now in Spotify's court

You can't hear the difference anyway

Personal Tech17 May 2021 | 90

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Updated Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited

Off-Prem12 May 2021 | 6

Amazon says it destroyed two million knockoffs in 2020, a fraction of the amount it ships

Internet souk said it only approved 6% of new sellers

Personal Tech11 May 2021 | 26

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

Cloud revenues growing by over 30 per cent, bring in 13 per cent of all Bezos bucks

Off-Prem30 Apr 2021 | 10

From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles

Curl up and dye, anyone?

Bootnotes21 Apr 2021 | 9

Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'

Someone hasn't heard of redundancy

Security09 Apr 2021 | 131

Amazon claims victory after warehouse workers in Alabama vote to reject union

Retail union accuses the tech giant of illegally swaying votes, files complaint

Legal09 Apr 2021 | 31

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Things that are not PogChamp: Amazon's Twitch has its source code, streamer payout data leaked

US school districts blame Amazon for nationwide bus driver shortage

Labour Party proposes raising UK Digital Services Tax (so Amazon can pass the hike on that, too?)

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Amazon's AI chips find their way into Astro butler bot, latest wall-hanging display

Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes

Amazon UK business swelled by 50%+ in 2020, and taxes soared. Lol, no, it means those paid by its staff

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is so flexible it wants to be called by a new name

Amazon to cover 100%* of college* tuition* for hourly employees* in the US

Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly

Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants

In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun

Facebook and Amazon take over Philippines-to-USA sub cable after China Mobile quits

Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us

UK's Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency signs £15m in cloud contracts

Amazon delays return to office work until 2022 at the earliest

US labor official suggests Amazon's Alabama workers rerun that unionization vote

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system

Anyone fancy a Snowmobile full of Bags O'Crap? It'll be on the list somewhere

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between

UK's Digital Markets Unit – the Big Tech watchdog – remains toothless for now but statutory powers due this year

Total recall: Amazon faces legal action from US consumer protection group over hazardous goods

UK's biggest trade union takes aim at Amazon over 'price gouging' allegations

OpenSearch, the AWS-sponsored Elasticsearch fork, reaches 1.0 milestone

Amazon will know when its business, privacy practices keep you up at night – it has an FCC-approved sleep radar

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract

Reserve Bank of India warns against Big Tech's potential to dominate financial services

Another JEDI saga that doesn't need a sequel: Oracle petitions Supreme Court over Microsoft Pentagon contract

Ex-boss of UK's Competition and Markets Authority asks: How can it tackle Big Tech when no one knows what the CMA is?

Amazon: Our carbon footprint went up 19% last year but we grew even more than that, so 'carbon intensity' is down

UK's competition watchdog preps to shoulder post-Brexit workload from European Commission

Green MSP calls on Scottish government to stop spending £4.7m a year with AWS after Amazon 'dumping' allegations

AWS launches BugBust contest: Help fix a $100m problem for a $12 tshirt

UK competition watchdog launches investigation into fake review epidemic across Google and Amazon

Amazon notices Apple, Google cutting app store commission rates, follows suit

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight

FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips

Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock

Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity

Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec

There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself

Amazon warehouse workers are seriously injured more frequently than those at similar companies – unions

Amazon puts an $8.5bn MGM in its shopping cart, clicks on checkout

Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit after DC AG says TTFN to price fixing

Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner

Apple announces lossless HD audio at no extra cost, then Amazon Music does too. The ball is now in Spotify's court

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Amazon says it destroyed two million knockoffs in 2020, a fraction of the amount it ships

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles

Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'

Amazon claims victory after warehouse workers in Alabama vote to reject union

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