Understand errors and warnings better with Gemini As part of Google's Gemini-in-everything strategy, Chrome DevTools now includes an opt-in feature for passing error messages in the JavaScript console to Gemini for an explanation, via a lightbulb icon. Amusingly, this documentati … | Continue reading
UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare. | Continue reading
“Let Google do the searching for you.” Read more... | Continue reading
Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore. | Continue reading
Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features coming to the Look to Speak app that will let users talk by staring at pictures … | Continue reading
Google has released a new emergency Chrome security update to address the third zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks within a week. [...] | Continue reading
But where the company once limited itself to gathering low-hanging fruit along the lines of “what time is the super bowl,” on Tuesday executives showcased generative AI tools that will someday plan an entire anniversary dinner, or cross-country-move, or trip abroad. A quarter-cen … | Continue reading
PaliGemma model README One of the more over-looked announcements from Google I/O yesterday was PaliGemma, an openly licensed VLM (Vision Language Model) in the Gemma family of models. The model accepts an image and a text prompt. It outputs text, but that text can include special … | Continue reading
Google is introducing multiple anti-theft and data protection features later this year, some available only for Android 15+ devices, while others will roll out to billions of devices running Android 10 and later. [...] | Continue reading
Android 15 Beta 2 is out for Pixels and several third-party devices. | Continue reading
Today's links Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good: It's just too goddamned easy to cheat. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been … | Continue reading
As usual, Google I/O 2024 is an absolute whirlwind of news and announcements. This year, rather than focusing on hardware, Android, or Chrome, Google spent most of this year’s developers’ conference convincing us that its AI features are worth prioritizing. One of those projects … | Continue reading
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background | Continue reading
Delisting non-consensual deepfake porn on Google is "draining," victim says. | Continue reading
Google’s latest I/O conference was an absolute slurry of AI promises. The company took so many stabs with new AI models, showing off new AI capabilities that integrate Gemini into every single Google product or service under the sun. But take enough shots, and the law of averages … | Continue reading
Just yesterday, I was talking about how Apple’s new AI-powered transcription and summarization feature for voice memos on iPhone is one of the features Rabbit promised on the R1 for later this year, and that gives us one less reason to buy the device. Read more... | Continue reading
Context caching for Google Gemini Another new Gemini feature announced today. Long context models enable answering questions against large chunks of text, but the price of those long prompts can be prohibitive—$3.50/million for Gemini Pro 1.5 up to 128,000 tokens and $7/million b … | Continue reading
How developers are using Gemini 1.5 Pro’s 1 million token context window I got to be a talking head for a few seconds in an intro video for today's Google I/O keynote, talking about how I used Gemini Pro 1.5 to index my bookshelf (and with a cameo from my squirrel nutcracker). I' … | Continue reading
You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google’s big yearly developer shebang: AI. That’s right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of new features coming to the Mountainview company’s software ecosystem, specifically what could be coming to the still-in- … | Continue reading
Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper. Read more... | Continue reading
Google’s best new Android feature in years is Circle to Search, which is why it took center stage at today’s Google I/O opening keynote. Google announced new updates to Gemini, the AI that powers the Android operating system. Most of the new features sound helpful, though they mi … | Continue reading
Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact. | Continue reading
On Monday, Apple and Google jointly announced a new privacy feature that warns Android and iOS users when an unknown Bluetooth tracking device travels with them. [...] | Continue reading
Google has patched another Chrome zero-day: On Thursday, Google said an anonymous source notified it of the vulnerability. The vulnerability carries a severity rating of 8.8 out of 10. In response, Google said, it would be releasing versions 124.0.6367.201/.202 for macOS and Wind … | Continue reading
It's still $500, with a better screen, longer support, and the same great camera. | Continue reading
Google’s Pixel releases are giving a major case of deja vu. I bought the Pixel 8 in October, but the Pixel 8a feels like nothing more than a reprise, save for the camera hardware and a few other bits. This speaks to Google’s slightly confusing trajectory regarding its hardware. A … | Continue reading
The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached. | Continue reading
Google I/O 2024 is mere days away. If you’re a proud Green Bubble or curious about what’s next from the ecosystem, you’ll want to set aside some time for next week’s annual developer’s conference. It’s happening May 14-15, with a live-streamed keynote on May 14, 2024, at 10:00 A. … | Continue reading
The new Pixel 8a looks like a mid-range champion. | Continue reading
Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that allows publishers to add video chapters to videos embedded on websites, similar to how chapters work on YouTube. [...] | Continue reading
From The New York Times: The biggest U.S. challenge so far to the vast power of today’s tech giants is nearing its conclusion. Starting Thursday, lawyers for the Justice Department, state attorneys general and Google delivered their final arguments in a yearslong case — U.S. et a … | Continue reading
Punishing Google for being the best would be “unprecedented,” lawyer argued. | Continue reading
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. [...] | Continue reading
Microsoft has highlighted a novel attack dubbed "Dirty Stream," which could allow malicious Android apps to overwrite files in another application's home directory, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution and secrets theft. [...] | Continue reading
The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google. | Continue reading
Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security. [...] | Continue reading
Everything Google's Python team were responsible for Google laid off the majority of their internal Python team a few days ago. Someone on Hacker News asked what the team had been responsible for, and team member zem relied with this fascinating comment providing detailed insight … | Continue reading
In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different. Read more... | Continue reading
If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you’re going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday,Google crowed about the success of the tests it’s run on the ads, which could indicate the “feature” will roll out to even more watchers. Read more... | Continue reading
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