
Western Digital has SN750 and SN850 SSD deals on Amazon.com
WD_Black 2TB SN850 PCIe 4.0 down by $190
Western Digital launched rather neat deals over at Amazon.com, giving its WD_Black SN750 and SN850 SSDs a decent price cut.

EU set to discipline Big Tech
Also set to rain on their clouds
Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.

Amazon only protects its chums from counterfeiters
If your brand is unknown you get no protection
Amazon only seems interested in protecting big name brands from counterfeiters and not those who come up with good ideas but are not as famous.

Big Tech’s fake climate shame
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney back groups opposed to climate change
While their customers believe that they are as green as Greta Thunberg, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting climate legislation.

Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding
Powered by Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator card
One of the key announcements of the Xilinx Adapt 2021 event was the new Amazon EC2 VT1 instance featuring Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator card. Amazon is a big customer when it comes to video transcoding, and it also offers these services through its AWS Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.

Amazon’s Astro robot is a suicidal privacy nut job
Pricey and flimsy too
Amazon’s pricey Astro robot appears to have issues with privacy and is so depressed that it will ignore the existence of stairs and chuck itself down them.

Microsoft faces headhunting charge from Amazon
Thou shalt not poach
Microsoft said it has hired a former Amazon cloud executive to run its cybersecurity operations, potentially setting in motion a legal battle between the two tech giants.

Brit banks want Big Cloud to face examination
Worried about relying on a handful of companies
Big cloud suppliers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft might have to comply with resilience standards and testing if they want to flog their services to British banks.

Amazon cracks down on cloud misuse
Will monitor use
Amazon.com plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promoting violence, and enforce its removal.

Amazon wants to recruit dope smokers
Tells delivery partners not to screen for marijuana use
Amazon.com has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers by recruiting dope smokers.