Tweet After years struggling to remain relevant in the smartphone market, Sony may be ready to stop throwing as much money at its mobile division. The result could be a 50% reduction in its workforce. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The Cupertino-based iPhone maker is reportedly lowering the production of its star product by as much as 10% for the current quarter, ending in March – a sign of slowing demand for the premium gadget. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The Linux kernel, which is currently 20.3 million lines of code long, looks set to go on a bit of a diet by version 4.17. 500,000 lines of code will be shedded thanks to architecture deprecation. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Rumors of massive job losses at Microsoft have been proved accurate, as the company has confirmed that it will cut up to 3,000 staff from its global workforce, as it focuses more heavily on the cloud. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft is poised to lay off thousands of sales staff this week, amid efforts to reorganize its global sales force and focus on selling cloud services instead of standalone software. Read more… Neowin