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
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
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
Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry
Go go gadget data collection
Devops17 May 2023 | 8
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
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