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Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company that provides e-commerce, cloud computing services, and digital content.
Amazon is blaming the threat of malware for its decision to stop releasing new Fire Sticks that support sideloading apps from outside Amazon’s Appstore. Amazon has released two Fire Stick models that use its proprietary, Linux-based operating system, Vega OS. …
… Amazon power plant clashes with climate pledge In a statement provided to Ars, Amazon said that it “believes in paying the full costs of powering our operations,” and it plans to do so by relying on “new on-site generation that won’t raise electricity costs for Texas families and is designed to tra… …
… Ed Markey D-Mass. has urged Amazon to discontinue the Familiar Faces feature. Markey sent Amazon a letter in October 2025 asking how Familiar Faces works, and summarized Amazon’s responses in a February 2026 letter that repeated his call to end Familiar Faces. …
… When asked if Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tasked him with driving profitability in Amazon’s devices unit, Panay said he’s been asked to make “sure we think of devices as one of the next big businesses of Amazon.” Achieving that goal includes driving device usage and getting Amazon device owners to use Am… …
… Those earlier attacks stuck Amazon with months of expected repairs and forced Amazon Web Services customers in the Middle East to migrate workloads to other cloud regions. …
… Amazon also added 10 more launches on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on top of three Falcon 9 launches for Amazon Leo last year. Meanwhile, in French Guiana, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has launched two dedicated missions for Amazon Leo, each with 32 satellites. …
Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. …
… SpaceX’s Falcon 9, capable of launching 24 Amazon Leo satellites at a time, has launched three times for Amazon. In all, Amazon has purchased more than 100 launches for the Amazon Leo constellation. …
Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training. …
Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company’s low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. “They’re built, and sitting in a payload processing facility waiting for trips to orbit,” said Steve Metayer, vice pres… …
