
Aussies put quantum randomness online
At least to AWS customers
The Australian National University (ANU) is putting its ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) online random number generator has been launched on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

Amazon Europe pays no tax on 51.3 billion euros of sales
Apparently it lost 1.16 billion euros
Amazon's main European retail business reported 1.16 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of losses in 2021.

Google copies Apple's pay antics
If they can get away with it, why can't we?
Google has seen Apple prop up its App store by insisting developers use its Apple Pay systems and thought it was an excellent way to make money.

EU agree to curb Big Tech
Landmark laws
Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states have agreed on a landmark law to curb the market dominance of United States tech giants such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple.

NASA worried about SpaceX's Starlink plans
30,000 satellites is getting silly
NASA has raised concerns about SpaceX's plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites for its Starlink.

Flawed hardware is the silent security industry killer
Stanford University electrical engineer warns
Servers are packed with undetectable hardware flaws caused by the fact they have shrunk too much.

Big Tech should pay if its punters are scammed
UK government investigates
Big tech companies who carry scam adverts should be forced to reimburse victims, UK MPs have said.

Biden meets top tech firms
Apparently they will help sort out Open source
The White House will meet executives from leading tech firms, including Google, Biggish Blue, Vole, Facebook, Jobs’ Mob, Oracle and Amazon.

Apple loses another chip expert
It just can’t keep them
While the Tame Apple Press claims that Jobs’ Mob is about to replace Intel as the world’s top chip maker, the fruity cargo cult can’t keep experienced personnel.

AMD part of Amazon’s High-Performance Computing
EC2 Hpc6a Instances for HPC Workloads
AMD’s new EPYC chips are behind Amazon’s EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimised High-Performance Computing (HPC) product.