China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs
Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own
Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam
That's one way to focus the Platforms & Devices team
On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 15
Google to Iran: Yes, we see you using Gemini for phishing and scripting. We're onto you
And you, China, Russia, North Korea ... Guardrails block malware generation
Security31 Jan 2025 | 13
Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands
Updated Official is official
Offbeat28 Jan 2025 | 162
Google takes action after coder reports 'most sophisticated attack I've ever seen'
Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost
Cyber-crime27 Jan 2025 | 32
Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches
Your workout warm-up instructions didn't say anything about setting wrists on fire – allegedly!
Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 11
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
Opinion As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first?
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 167
Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple's mobile ecosystems
CMA flexes its new Strategic Market Status muscles
Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 14
Supply chain attack hits Chrome extensions, could expose millions
Threat actor exploited phishing and OAuth abuse to inject malicious code
Cyber-crime22 Jan 2025 | 6
Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret
Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google
On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 10
Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3
Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch?
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 68
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas
AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 15
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire
Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week
Opinion Meanwhile, tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump
Public Sector11 Jan 2025 | 335
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club
Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?
Applications10 Jan 2025 | 14
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google
If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice
Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery
Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap
Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 75
RISC-V is making moves, but it has work to do if it wants to hit the mainstream
Feature Can it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close?
Systems02 Jan 2025 | 22
Boffins trick AI model into giving up its secrets
All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days
Research18 Dec 2024 | 20
Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine
Opinion Seek and ye shall find
Applications16 Dec 2024 | 204
Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage
Privacy measure leaves some mourning lost memories
Security13 Dec 2024 | 48
Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections
Wider ecosystem still has work to do, though
Personal Tech13 Dec 2024 | 24
Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters
Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online
Off-Prem12 Dec 2024 | 59
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis
Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents
AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 25
Google DeepMind touts AI model for 'better' global weather forecasting
Bases predictions on historical data, instead of solving physics equations
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 39
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds
Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact
Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
Google India probed after driver fatally followed Maps route over unfinished bridge
Asia in Brief Plus: 95 percent of Chinese broadband tops 100 megabits; Yahoo Japan photo album privacy breach; and more
Software01 Dec 2024 | 37
Google earns fresh competition scrutiny from two nations on a single day
India unhappy about treatment of some games, Canada upset by adware monopoly
Legal29 Nov 2024 | 13
Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online
'See you in court', defendant posts
Legal28 Nov 2024 | 29
Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable
Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia
Networks27 Nov 2024 | 11
Google must face £7B UK class action over search engine dominance
Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers
Software26 Nov 2024 | 24
How US Dept of Justice's cure for Google could inflict collateral damage
Opinion Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities
Software25 Nov 2024 | 26
Google blocked 1,000-plus pro-China fake news websites from its search results
Beijing's propaganda buddies aren't just using social media
Security25 Nov 2024 | 15
Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon
Opinion Haven't we heard this story before?
Columnists23 Nov 2024 | 77
DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default
Updated Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out
Applications21 Nov 2024 | 61
Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed
OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research
AI + ML20 Nov 2024 | 9
Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2
Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later
OSes20 Nov 2024 | 10
Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
First true sign of AGI – blowing a fuse with a frustrating user?
AI + ML15 Nov 2024 | 67
Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale
Will stop accepting ads instead before TTPA comes into force
Public Sector15 Nov 2024 | 26
Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed
You snooze, you lose, er, win
AI + ML05 Nov 2024 | 18
US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 161
Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses
Google Cloud grows fast thanks to AI, which now writes a quarter of all G-code
AI + ML30 Oct 2024 | 35
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Don't hold your breath Putin
Software29 Oct 2024 | 254
Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser
Project Jarvis will apparently conduct research, purchase products, and even book a flight on your behalf
AI + ML28 Oct 2024 | 50
Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region
Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread
Off-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 26
Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns
Don't ignore this nasty zero day exploit says TAG
Cyber-crime24 Oct 2024 | 10
US lawmakers push DoJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech
TaxSlayer, H&R Block, TaxAct, and Ramsey Solutions accused of sharing info with Meta and Google
Security22 Oct 2024 | 6
Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away
Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet
On-Prem18 Oct 2024 | 95
Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages
Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the 'foreseeable future'
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 30
Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot
Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027
Software15 Oct 2024 | 128
Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment
Commits to molten salt small modular reactors it thinks can come online in 2035
Off-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 52
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS
Tech giant snaps back, calls DoJ proposals on splitting up Alphabet and more 'government overreach'
Networks09 Oct 2024 | 36
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again
Opinion Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data?
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 27
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'
Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 80
Epic judge orders Google to let rivals set up app stores
Chocolate Factory vows to appeal
Applications07 Oct 2024 | 19
Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure
Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers
Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 2
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout
AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads
AI + ML03 Oct 2024 | 3
Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially
Memory safety flaws used to represent 76% of 'droid security holes. Now they account for 24%
OSes25 Sep 2024 | 14
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation
Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh
Four Chocolate Factory trackers cracked the Top 25 in all regions
Security24 Sep 2024 | 16
Necro malware continues to haunt side-loaders of dodgy Android mods
Updated 11M devices exposed to trojan, Kaspersky says
Cyber-crime23 Sep 2024 | 2
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