• Regent, a "media investment firm", has signed a deal to buy TechCrunch from Yahoo for an undisclosed but not enormous sum.  (Axios)
  
  I didn't realise that Yahoo owned TechCrunch, but there it is in the copyright notice right at the bottom.
  
  Just a few days ago Regent bought Foundry from IDG.  Foundry is the home of the various "world" publications, such as Macworld, PCWorld, and InfoWorld, which has been in operation since 1978.
  
  What all of this means for those various publications is unclear.
  
  
  

Tech News

• What's behind Jeff Bezos' changed relationship with Donald Trump?  (Ars Technica)
  
  Reality.  Something with which the Ars commentariat is demonstrably unfamiliar.  The article itself is from the Financial Times which is why it's less insane than usual.
  
  As the article quotes a source on the money-losing Washington Post:

  He’s a highly rational person. I think he was comfortable losing $20 million a year. When it gets to $100 million a year, I don’t know what his appetite is for that.

  Reality always wins.
  
  
  
• Microsoft to Windows 10 users: Stop being poor.  (XDA Developers)
  
  Just buy a new PC, losers.
  
  
  
• Zen 5 Threadripper chips have been spotted in Indian shipping manifests, indicating that they exist.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  So far the 24 core 9965WX and 32 core 9975WX, which based on AMD's naming conventions would support 8 channel memory and 128 lanes of PCIe 5.
  
  
  
• The Court of Milan has ordered Google to falsify DNS results to hide the IPs of IPTV pirate sites.  (TorrentFreak)
  
  Time to block Europe at the firewall.
  
  
  
• "Vibe coding" is a dangerous fantasy.  (NMN)
  
  "Here's how I built a B2B SAAS platform without knowing how to code."
  
  (Five minutes later.)
  
  "We regret to inform you that our site has been hacked and all user data corrupted and/or stolen."