Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, October 5th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. A new front in the regulation battle

is opening up for major cloud platforms. What is the point of removing

article headlines in X-posts? Amazon's Project Kuiper is launching, literally,

and is the new camera on the iPhone 15 max the biggest smartphone camera

upgrade ever?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

The CMA of the UK have their sites set on something new, announcing an investigation into

public cloud providers in the UK following a referral from

off-com and the CMA says the probe will conclude by April 2025

quoting the verge. The clouds are gathering over Microsoft's az Azure operations in the EU and now the

UK with the launch of a new investigation into major cloud service providers that

also includes Amazon. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority or CMA is just about to wrap up its concerns

over cloud gaming with Microsoft's proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition, but it will soon

turn its attention to Microsoft's Azure Cloud offerings and Amazon Web Services.

It's part of a fresh investigation into public cloud providers in the UK after Telecom's regulator

Ofcom, quote, identified a number of features in the supply of cloud services

that make it more difficult for customers to switch

and use multiple cloud suppliers, end quote.

Ofcombe found issues with charges that cloud customers have to pay to move their data out of the cloud

discounts to only use one cloud provider and technical barriers to switching between

cloud providers. The CMA specifically calls out Microsoft 2, quote,

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