Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 |
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 82
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people AI + ML25 May 2023 | 53
AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks Do you really need the latest and greatest cores to doomscroll the web? Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 7
Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 19
Google settles location tracking lawsuit for only $39.9M in brief Also, more OEM Android malware, Google's bug reports (mostly) ditch CVEs, and this week's critical vulns Security22 May 2023 | 7
Privacy Sandbox, Google's answer to third-party cookies, promised within months Winter in July for some of those in the web ad world Personal Tech20 May 2023 | 32
SCOTUS rules Google and Twitter didn't contribute to terrorist attacks And holds off on Section 230 for another time Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 11
Search the web at least once every two years or risk losing your Google account Updated inactivity policy may nix accounts, and data. Even Workspaces data and your precious pics Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 52
Don't panic. Google offering scary .zip and .mov domains is not the end of the world Comment Did we forget about .pl, .sh and oh yeah, .com ? CSO17 May 2023 | 80
Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website Plaintiff claims they didn't consent to analytics tracking Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 16
Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control Software16 May 2023 | 11
Tech companies cut jobs to chase growth, but watch out for those shareholder returns Beancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs On-Prem15 May 2023 | 10
Google accused of stomping on rivals as it stamps out annoying Calendar spam Talk about going against the Grain Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 22
Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more Applications11 May 2023 | 7
What you need to know from today's Google IO: PaLM 2, Pixel Fold, AI everywhere We sat through the Chocolate Factory's PR blitz so you don't have to Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties? AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator Mandatory measure against attackers who spam MFA folks into submission Security09 May 2023 | 18
Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5
DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs Can't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people Research06 May 2023 | 27
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner That's certainly one of the stranger headlines we've written Offbeat04 May 2023 | 66
Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign And $70B in share repurchases didn't calm matters Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 52
Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google 'But they're gonna take my thumbs' hits different in 2023 Security04 May 2023 | 50
Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard Logowatch As blue check marks start showing up in Gmail Security03 May 2023 | 40
Apple, Google propose anti-stalking spec for Bluetooth tracker tags We moved fast and broke things, people got harassed and murdered, so let's revisit privacy Security02 May 2023 | 30
Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work 'Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now. Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That's scary' AI + ML01 May 2023 | 77
Google sues CryptBot slingers, gets court order to shut down malware domains Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours! Cyber-crime27 Apr 2023 | 7
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
Amazon, Bing, Wikipedia make EU's list of 'Very Large' platforms Will need to sit at the front of the class where Commish can keep an eye on them Legal26 Apr 2023 | 20
Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9
Is your AI hallucinating? Might be time to call in the red team RSA Conference Plus: Bias bounties are the new bug bounties Spotlight on RSA26 Apr 2023 | 5
Mandiant's 'most prevalent threat actor' may be living under your roof – the teenager RSA Conference Plus they are cliquey as all hell Spotlight on RSA25 Apr 2023 | 18
Google's here to boost your cloud security and the magic ingredient? AI, of course RSA Conference Send in the LLMs Spotlight on RSA25 Apr 2023 | 4
How was Google boss's 2022? He got paid $226M as stock awards kicked in Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues Off-Prem24 Apr 2023 | 25
Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract to leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365 Capgemini gets the job of saying goodbye to the Chocolate Factory Applications21 Apr 2023 | 44
Google backs Bard to generate ads, which apparently improves creativity Assures advertisers 'guardrails' will stop anything bad from happening AI + ML21 Apr 2023 | 16
Google Brain, protein-folding DeepMind fold into one Great minds in tech come together to solve hard problems – such as, why did anyone think Bard was a good name? AI + ML20 Apr 2023 | 5
Google Fi still kicking, gets third rebrand in less than a decade It's better than a one-way trip to the Graveyard Personal Tech20 Apr 2023 | 7
Appeals court spares Google from $20m patent payout over Chrome Chocolate Factory can afford some staples now, or? Security19 Apr 2023 | 8
UK Android app devs to get choice of billing system on Google Play Updated Coalition for App Fairness calls tech giant's proposal 'a bad deal' Applications19 Apr 2023 | 3
Huawei masters the great vanishing act as UK sales evaporate Revenues one third of 2018 peak as US and UK sanctions weigh heavy on Chinese biz Networks19 Apr 2023 | 28
Reddit: If you want to slurp our API to train that LLM, you better pay for it, pal End of free money era and end of free data for building billion-dollar models AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 11
Nine more US states join ad antitrust legal battle against Google More than a third of US states now party to the lawsuit, which aims to break up Chocolate Factory's advertising arm Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 7
Google crams more AI into search as Apple, Samsung sniff around Bing Mountain View may have nothing to fear, though – Microsoft's browser is still the underdog AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 6
Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability In brief Also: Tech players spin up white hat protection, this week's critical bugs, and more Security17 Apr 2023 | 2
Google Pay mistakenly rains free cash on netizens Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice) Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 3
Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades In Windows 11 it'll soon default to the Snipping Tool. And that's just fine with users, right? OSes13 Apr 2023 | 64
Worried about the security of your code's dependencies? Try Google's Deps.dev Is this what the kids mean by owning the libs? Devops13 Apr 2023 | 13
South Korea fines Google $32M for using market power to stymie rival app store Forced developers to sign exclusivity agreements in return for promises of going global Legal11 Apr 2023 | 5
Google to kill Dropcam, Nest Secure hardware next year Great, more company for Stadia, Duo and pals in the graveyard Security10 Apr 2023 | 43
Google: If your Android app can create accounts, it better be easy to delete them, too Awoogah, awooooogah, new policy coming for developers Personal Tech07 Apr 2023 | 14
Google boffins pull back more of the curtain hiding TPU v4 secrets And Nvidia's having none of Big G's claims of superiority AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 7
It is now safe to turn off your brain: Google CEO asked Bard to plan his dad's 80th birthday Though he never said he went through with the idea to 'make a scrapbook' Offbeat05 Apr 2023 | 22
When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating Staff WFH so internal cafes are baking too many muffins, says doc, while bus shuttles and yoga classes are empty Off-Prem04 Apr 2023 | 45
Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again Manifest V2 will die another day Personal Tech01 Apr 2023 | 26
Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal Updated $161 million slap-on-the-wrist fine stands, but major restrictions are eased Legal30 Mar 2023 | 4
Microsoft Defender shoots down legit URLs as malicious Updated Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating' Security29 Mar 2023 | 25
EU mandated messaging platform love-in is easier said than done: Cambridge boffins Digital Market Act interoperability requirement a social challenge as well as a technical one Security29 Mar 2023 | 56
Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle Updated Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so Security28 Mar 2023 | 35
Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope Special report Nature probes published research as it emerges journal paper allegedly used to entice $120m cloud deal AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 29
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps Analysis Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 11