Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy Intel has reportedly sought an investment from rival chipmaker TSMC.… #theregister #IT
Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies Video  Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians' The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and G… #theregister #IT
X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten… #theregister #IT
North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.… #theregister #IT
Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the larg… #theregister #IT