Google says UK regulator testing means the advertising tech will last until 2025. | Continue reading
Google is updating the client-side encryption mechanism for Google Meet to allow external participants, including those without Google accounts, to join encrypted calls. [...] | Continue reading
It’s not like you didn’t already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But th … | Continue reading
Google fired at least 20 more employees on Monday evening related to the April 16 sit-in protests of the company’s cloud computing contracts with Israel, No Tech For Apartheid organizers tell Gizmodo. Google confirmed the additional firings in a statement, noting the company has … | Continue reading
With 16GB of RAM, there's lot of room for Google's AI models to live in memory. | Continue reading
The blog post announcing the shutdown was done one day early. The idea was to take the opportunity of the new Pope being announced and Andy Rubin being replaced as head of Android, so that the [Google] Reader news may be drowned out. PR didn't apparently realize that the kinds of … | Continue reading
Google's almost uncountable number of layoffs continues. | Continue reading
Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company’s New York and California offic … | Continue reading
Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company’s contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo. Google says it has cut the prot … | Continue reading
It’s been a wild ride with Google’s total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it’s already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn’t d … | Continue reading
Google NotebookLM Data Exfiltration NotebookLM is a Google Labs product that lets you store information as sources (mainly text files in PDF) and then ask questions against those sources - effectively an interface for building your own custom RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) … | Continue reading
YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps. [...] | Continue reading
Google workers in California and New York are planning a sit-in protest of the company’s ties to Israel on Tuesday, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The protestors demand their company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract held by Google and Amazon to … | Continue reading
Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead. | Continue reading
No one wants to build an Android satellite phone, so Google is going to do it. | Continue reading
Google began blocking access to California news outlets for some users in the state, according to an announcement from the tech giant on Friday. And it’s all because Google is upset about proposed legislation that would force the company to pay some publishers for their content, … | Continue reading
Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector? | Continue reading
Photo Unblur and AI-erase are now free, while the editor offers 10 free saves a month. | Continue reading
Google Axion-based VMs will be out in preview in the coming months. | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 Pro public preview Huge release from Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro - the GPT-4 competitive model with the incredible 1 million token context length - is now available without a waitlist in 180+ countries (including the USA but not Europe or the UK as far as I can tell)... and … | Continue reading
Google's "video editor" feels more like a souped-up version of Google Slides. | Continue reading
The one-year wait for Apple's cross-platform safety measures is almost over. | Continue reading
Before Google Reader was shut down, they were internally looking for maintainers. It turned out you have to deal with three years of infra migrations if you sign up to be the new owner of Reader. No one wanted that kind of job for a product that is not likely to grow 10x. — Jaana … | Continue reading
You'll need to run outside when your robot delivery arrives. | Continue reading
Google has fixed another zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, which was exploited by security researchers during the Pwn2Own hacking contest last month. [...] | Continue reading
Google has fixed two Google Pixel zero-days exploited by forensic firms to unlock phones without a PIN and gain access to the data stored within them. [...] | Continue reading
The lawsuit has been settled: Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class ac … | Continue reading
Microsoft has confirmed that some Outlook.com users are experiencing issues with emails being blocked and marked as spam when trying to email Gmail accounts. [...] | Continue reading
Does Google's app really need to constantly reset all Windows network interfaces? | Continue reading
Google announced a new Chrome security feature that ties cookies to a specific device, blocking hackers from stealing and using them to hijack users' accounts. [...] | Continue reading
Google has agreed to delete billions of data records collected from 136 million Chrome users in the United States, as part of a lawsuit settlement regarding alleged undisclosed browser data collection while in Incognito mode. [...] | Continue reading
Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don't meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks. [...] | Continue reading
Google will delete browsing data the company compiled on Chrome users who thought their data wasn’t being collected while using Incognito mode, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The move is part of a settlement with consumers who first sued in 2020 af … | Continue reading
Google wants AI models to be loaded 24/7, so 8GB of RAM might not be enough. | Continue reading
U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally. [...] | Continue reading
llm-gemini 0.1a1 I upgraded my llm-gemini plugin to add support for the new Google Gemini Pro 1.5 model, which is beginning to roll out in early access. The 1.5 model supports 1,048,576 input tokens and generates up to 8,192 output tokens - a big step up from Gemini 1.0 Pro which … | Continue reading
Google fixed seven security vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser on Tuesday, including two zero-days exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. [...] | Continue reading
A 6.8-inch "Pixel 9 Pro XL," 6.1-inch "Pixel 9 Pro," and a "Pixel 9" at 6.0 inches. | Continue reading
When the big Windows-on-Arm relaunch happens in mid-2024, Chrome will be ready. | Continue reading
Over 15 free VPN apps on Google Play were found using a malicious software development kit that turned Android devices into unwitting residential proxies, likely used for cybercrime and shopping bots. [...] | Continue reading
The search chatbot used to be opt-in, but now Google will try it on normal users. | Continue reading
Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. [...] | Continue reading
BleepingComputer has the details. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot. The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total tally since the program’s launch in 2010 has reached $59 million. For Android, the world’s most popular and wide … | Continue reading
Google still isn't letting Play Store apps use RCS, though. | Continue reading
YouTube wants "realistic" likenesses or audio fabrications to be labeled. | Continue reading
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental h … | Continue reading
Google's search-infused phone app was touted as a major feature a few years ago. | Continue reading
900 Sites, 125 million accounts, 1 vulnerability Google's Firebase development platform encourages building applications (mobile an web) which talk directly to the underlying data store, reading and writing from "collections" with access protected by Firebase Security Rules. Unsu … | Continue reading