Factory Reset Protection gets some teeth

Google is giving Android’s Factory Reset Protection (FRP) a badly needed kick up the backside, promising to make stolen phones even more useless than before by spotting setup wizard dodges and forcing a second reset until ownership is nailed down.

Will be replaced by tech that Apple can’t do

Fruity Cargo Cult Apple's senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, warned that the iPhone could be obsolete in a decade and will be replaced by something that Jobs’ Mob is light years behind its competition.

Cue hints at AI alternatives

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street after its services boss Eddy Cue told a US court the company might kick Google out of Safari's search box.

Retail giant wants to go it alone in the tech world

Amazon is taking a huge swing at the tech world by dumping Android and rolling out its own Linux-based Vega OS. The retail giant reckons it can reshape how millions use Fire TV devices and other hardware.

All roads lead to Chrome

ChatGPT wouldn’t mind getting its paws on Chrome, if the courts end up prying it from Google’s iron grip.

TPU muscles into inference turf with 9,216 chip clusters

Google is forging ahead with Ironwood—a new AI chip gunning for Nvidia’s crown.

Judge calls monopoly move illegal

A federal judge has torn into Google’s ad tech stranglehold, ruling the company illegally built monopoly power that let it hike prices and pocket fat margins on web advertising.

Locks down user data

Android phones are about to get a stealthy security upgrade to Google Play Services (version 25.14) which introduces an “auto-restart” feature that locks devices after three days of inactivity, effectively shielding sensitive data.

Zen 5 power lands in C4D and H4D machines for HPC and AI

Google Cloud has thrown its lot further in with AMD, unveiling C4D and H4D virtual machines packed with 5th Gen EPYC silicon aimed at boosting performance across cloud workloads.

From absurd copyright overkill to outright national security risk

Italy’s Piracy Shield is already a digital farce — now it’s teetering on the edge of becoming a full-blown national disaster.