Microsoft’s OpenAI investment may have been prompted by concerns over Google’s artificial intelligence progress, according to a new report. The… Continue reading Microsoft’s AI investment triggered by Google progress, show The post Microsoft’s AI investment triggered by Google pr … | Continue reading
Google’s “Core” team was subject to at least 200 layoffs late in April, with reorganization and restructuring that has moved… Continue reading Google lays off hundreds and moves some ‘core’ jobs to out of US The post Google lays off hundreds and moves some ‘core’ jobs to out of U … | Continue reading
stephsmithio, "Swear words in Taylor Swift albums [OC]", r/dataisbeautiful: A few quick trips to the Google Books Ngram Viewer will confirm that Ms. Swift is tracing larger-scale trends, e.g. Also, see John McWhorter, "Curses Aren’t ‘Just Words’", The Atlantic 5/4/2021. And maybe … | Continue reading
We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year! GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the prog … | Continue reading
Google Play Books has been provided an update that introduces several new features to the app, the company revealed via a blog post. That includes integration with YouTube where users will be able to listen to audiobook previews for free. This would be in addition to the audioboo … | Continue reading
Today's mystery: the dog’s missing toenail. The husband asked me to google whether or not dogs’ toenails grow back. Yes, they do, they’re not fucking tails. Last night the husband and I watched a bilingual show on farming contractors across the country. In one scene (more) | Continue reading
How we’d like to see Apple implement GenAI, our home network troubleshooting process, the iPad model we currently use and what features would prompt an upgrade, and our views on the centralization of account logins, like those from Apple and Google.… | Continue reading
Android phone users who use Google Chrome as their main browser are being warned about a severe malware currently circulating… Continue reading Scam alert for Android users as ‘Brokewell’ malware threatens users’ bank accounts The post Scam alert for Android users as ‘Brokewell’ … | Continue reading
Rahul Rao in Scientific American: Few computer science breakthroughs have done so much in so little time as the artificial intelligence design known as a transformer. A transformer is a form of deep learning—a machine model based on networks in the brain—that researchers at Googl … | Continue reading
This week, Google announced the launch of Google AI Essentials, a new self-paced course designed to help people learn AI skills that can boost their productivity. Taught by Google’s AI experts, and assuming no prior knowledge of programming, the course ventures to show students h … | Continue reading
Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports. [...] | Continue reading
The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google. | Continue reading
It's been on my queue to investigate how to use Generative AI in a 'chat' interface versus "one prompt and answer" mode for some time and today I finally got a chance to check it out. I'll share my thoughts below, but once again I want to thank Allen Firstenberg for his help whil … | Continue reading
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype train for iOS 18 (though getting on at the c … | Continue reading
At least 36 former Googlers now work on AI for Apple. | Continue reading
Topics covered in this episode: Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler Exploring Python packages with Oven and PyPI Browser PyCharm Local LLM Google shedding Python devs (at least in the US). Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by ScoutAPM: pythonbytes.fm … | Continue reading
Topics covered in this episode: Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler Exploring Python packages with Oven and PyPI Browser PyCharm Local LLM Google shedding Python devs (at least in the US). Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by ScoutAPM: pythonbytes.f … | 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
On the surface it seemed like a match made in heaven. | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox is working on new customisation options, including the ability to set a background image on the new tab page. A number of modern web browsers including Google Chrome, Vivaldi, and Microsoft Edge allows users to set a custom image as the backdrop for the new tab pa … | Continue reading
I’m very happy with this particular episode of the podcast: Neil Jhaveri founded Mimestream, a macOS email app for Gmail users. Stephen and David talk to Neil about his time at Apple, Mimestream’s roadmap (including an iOS version and supporting non-Google services), and email’s … | Continue reading
Some Google Chrome users report having issues connecting to websites, servers, and firewalls after Chrome 124 was released last week with the new quantum-resistant X25519Kyber768 encapsulation mechanism enabled by default. [...] | Continue reading
I've been creating a list of what I use my iPhone for, and what would happen if I switched to Android. For most cases, it wouldn't make any difference. For example, for things like Notes, Email, Photos, etc. I use standard Apple apps, so I'd just as happily use Google apps. For s … | 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
Along with addressing outdated and problematic infrastructure, the plan calls for cleaning up contaminated groundwater. State teams up with Google satellites to search for major problems underground: 'This is going to live and evolve and grow' first appeared on The Cool Down. | 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
Apple is reportedly holding discussions with OpenAI about using the startup’s AI technology to power some features coming to the iPhone later this year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. This comes roughly a month after reports surfaced that Apple was holding discussions with Google … | Continue reading
The tech podcast where every day is Earth Day, except for that time we recorded on Mars. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: Meta has rolled out its new AI Assistant in several places, including its smart glasses collaboration with Ray-Ban. Does this feel like the second coming of Google Glass, or … | Continue reading
Waldo Jaquith: I made a new Mastodon bot, called “I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I’ve been having fun reading these, so … | 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
Should sideloading Chrome on an old smart TV really compromise your entire account? | Continue reading
Investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are continuing to fuel the tech sector boom after strong earnings for Google, Microsoft, and… Continue reading AI business is booming for Microsoft and Google, but some rivals falter The post AI business is booming for Microsoft and Goo … | Continue reading
🔗 Passkeys: A Shattered Dream - Firstyear's blog-a-log April 26, 2024, 8:20 p.m. via web "We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype." TBH, I never got around to figuring out how passkeys were supposed to work, … | Continue reading
I question charging for a manga streaming service that uses unmodified Google Translate "translations." But par for the course, I question it for lack of wisdom more than for lack of morality. | Continue reading
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search | Continue reading
We must be reasonable! | Continue reading
New hand-sized gas analyser to detect multiple toxic gases in real-time with lasers Scientists hope to make them as common as video surveillance, with units on every lamp post Least polluted routes to work or school could be integrated into Google Maps in the future Consortium re … | Continue reading
Image by Casey Fleser, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/) When and why did Google search get so bad? Zenon's post has an answer! It's about Edward Zitron, who pinpoints the date and reasons to February of 2019, click to read the details! | Continue reading
I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn’t until today that I made an effort to explore the app and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the cool things it’s capable of. You might already know some of these, but you migh … | Continue reading
Ed Zitron read a bunch of the emails released in United States v. Google and believes the quality of Google’s search engine has been in decline since early 2019 thanks to new leadership: These emails are a stark example of the monstrous growth-at-all-costs mindset that dominates … | Continue reading
Here is more information that I've not covered before The post Mid-Week Mini News Stories – Garmin, Google, MyWhoosh, Stages appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Today's links The specific process by which Google enshittified its search: Ed Zitron has Prabhakar Raghavan bang to rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | 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
🔗 The Man Who Killed Google Search April 24, 2024, 10:38 p.m. via web "These emails are a stark example of the monstrous growth-at-all-costs mindset that dominates the tech ecosystem, and if you take one thing away from this newsletter, I want it to be the name Prabhakar … | Continue reading
Google Maps may extend its generative AI feature to everyone, according to several reports. The feature was unveiled at the… Continue reading Google Maps may expand generative AI feature to everyone The post Google Maps may expand generative AI feature to everyone appeared first … | Continue reading
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Bert Hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/ A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? I installed it on my Mac with instructions fro … | Continue reading