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Security

Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech

Roll up, roll up. Come and be the CMA-approved trustee to keep an eye on the Chocolate Factory's antics

26 Nov 2021 13:33 | 11

Security

Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

Ad giant's first stab at providing the 'world's premier security advisory' starts with the obvious

25 Nov 2021 06:59 | 11

Personal Tech

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them

25 Nov 2021 00:44 | 129

PaaS + IaaS

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see

23 Nov 2021 14:21 | 14

Review

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent

19 Nov 2021 09:30 | 12

Software

Korea gives Google and Apple another kick for requiring their own payment systems

All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us

18 Nov 2021 06:44 | 7

Personal Tech

Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

Another nice Nest you've got me into, Google

16 Nov 2021 12:28 | 60

Personal Tech

US states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's advertising business keeps growing

Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world

16 Nov 2021 05:29 | 10

On-Prem

Google wants US government to help develop chiplet design standards, so they're easier to make and buy

Submission to USA's call for chip supply chain warns on 'blunt interventions', making it far more colorful than most

15 Nov 2021 07:58 | 6

Applications

Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually worked for years

12 Nov 2021 22:40 | 58

Off-Prem

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

Prolonged outage in Europe and beyond dampens productivity

12 Nov 2021 12:11 | 16

Applications

Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it

Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software

12 Nov 2021 01:44 | 36

AI + ML

UK aims for 'openness and fairness' in its AI Strategy – unless we're talking about favoured contractors

Or the government itself, of course

11 Nov 2021 09:30 | 12

Security

Malicious Chrome extensions are bad. But what about nice ones that can be hijacked? This new tool spots them

DoubleX static analyzer is doubleplusgood

11 Nov 2021 08:36 | 5

Legal

Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites

Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week

10 Nov 2021 14:45 | 37

Legal

Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory

Campaigners' case had 'no real prospect of success'

10 Nov 2021 10:52 | 29

Personal Tech

Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms'

Move over 'dog ate my homework', there's a new excuse in town

09 Nov 2021 14:19 | 58

Software

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Also: Engineers call for 'a diverse set of browsers across all platforms including iOS'

08 Nov 2021 12:32 | 60

Opinion

Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve

Are you syncing what I'm syncing?

08 Nov 2021 09:30 | 134

On-Prem

Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims

05 Nov 2021 21:53 | 50

Personal Tech

There, that wasn't so hard, was it? South Korea makes Google allow rival payment systems in Play store apps

All right, which country's next?

04 Nov 2021 23:28 | 12

PaaS + IaaS

JEDI mind tricks: Google said Pentagon contract didn't align with company values. Now it's chasing another defence gig

Don't Be Evil... unless...

04 Nov 2021 17:38 | 12

Science

Google lab proposes solar-powered moisture farming to provide water for billions

From Tatooine to Earth

01 Nov 2021 12:13 | 59

Opinion

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

I've read this stuff, says one dev. 'Either Google is screwed, or society is screwed'

01 Nov 2021 09:27 | 180

Off-Prem

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Advertising engine still revving amid pandemic

27 Oct 2021 14:25 |

Personal Tech

Russia leads the world in one thing – number of content-removal demands to Google

China still in the toilet for internet freedom with 'draconian prison terms for online dissent'

26 Oct 2021 19:17 | 2

Legal

Google deliberately throttled ad load times to promote AMP, claims new court document

'Nice comparative boost' for AMP claimed to be achieved by actively slowing other formats

26 Oct 2021 08:30 | 45

In brief

Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more

23 Oct 2021 03:30 | 47

Personal Tech

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more

22 Oct 2021 22:51 | 37

Feature

Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

WebKit engine is well behind the competition

22 Oct 2021 10:05 | 146

Security

YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto

22 Oct 2021 06:28 | 28

Software

Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more

21 Oct 2021 20:33 | 4

Security

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

A death by a thousand cuts

20 Oct 2021 13:07 | 115

Applications

Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G

Ad-free now but not forever

20 Oct 2021 12:14 | 39

Personal Tech

Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes

Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them

19 Oct 2021 21:31 | 24

Offbeat

UK's competition regulator announces market study into music-streaming biz

Watchdog is getting comfortable with its new digital remit

19 Oct 2021 12:07 | 5

On-Prem

Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut

French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players

15 Oct 2021 15:34 | 2

Databases

Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019

15 Oct 2021 13:28 | 5

Off-Prem

Azure Emissions Dashboard shows how you and Microsoft are slowly killing the planet with your cloud workloads

Here's an even cheerier thought – it requires a Power BI Pro subscription

14 Oct 2021 15:15 | 9

Legal

FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished

The Register is an amazing website, simply one of the very best out there. Extremely cool people. 10/10

14 Oct 2021 14:30 | 43

Virtualization

Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything

VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos

14 Oct 2021 08:03 | 6

Personal Tech

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation

13 Oct 2021 16:45 | 41

Off-Prem

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team

12 Oct 2021 12:14 | 7

Software

Google's Privacy Budget doesn't add up, says Mozilla CTO - amazingly enough

Chocolate Factory says its fingerprinting spec is unfinished

11 Oct 2021 20:56 | 15

Personal Tech

Motivated by commerce, not conscience, Google bans ads for climate change consensus contradictors

Publishers won't get ads, advertisers won't get a voice, nobody will be spared weeks of tedious culture wars

08 Oct 2021 02:51 | 44

Interview

Alternative search providers write letter to EU complaining that Google antitrust action achieved diddly-squat

'There's no independent search engine really, other than Google and Bing'

07 Oct 2021 13:35 | 26

AI + ML

Open Sesame, says Google... to voice identification: Speech ID adds biometric security to call-centre bots

Eleven. Eleh-ven. Ala-vuhn*. Oh never mind

06 Oct 2021 18:21 | 15

Off-Prem

Google to build cut of its cloud operated by France’s Thales, for French government clients

Sovereign cloud meets hyperscale

06 Oct 2021 06:29 | 3

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Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech

Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Korea gives Google and Apple another kick for requiring their own payment systems

Another brick in the (kitchen) wall: Users report frozen 1st generation Google Home Hubs

US states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's advertising business keeps growing

Google wants US government to help develop chiplet design standards, so they're easier to make and buy

Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it

UK aims for 'openness and fairness' in its AI Strategy – unless we're talking about favoured contractors

Malicious Chrome extensions are bad. But what about nice ones that can be hijacked? This new tool spots them

Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites

Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory

Google's Pixel 6 fingerprint reader is rubbish because of 'enhanced security algorithms'

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve

Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

There, that wasn't so hard, was it? South Korea makes Google allow rival payment systems in Play store apps

JEDI mind tricks: Google said Pentagon contract didn't align with company values. Now it's chasing another defence gig

Google lab proposes solar-powered moisture farming to provide water for billions

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Russia leads the world in one thing – number of content-removal demands to Google

Google deliberately throttled ad load times to promote AMP, claims new court document

Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G

Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes

UK's competition regulator announces market study into music-streaming biz

Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut

Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

Azure Emissions Dashboard shows how you and Microsoft are slowly killing the planet with your cloud workloads

FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished

Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

Google's Privacy Budget doesn't add up, says Mozilla CTO - amazingly enough

Motivated by commerce, not conscience, Google bans ads for climate change consensus contradictors

Alternative search providers write letter to EU complaining that Google antitrust action achieved diddly-squat

Open Sesame, says Google... to voice identification: Speech ID adds biometric security to call-centre bots

Google to build cut of its cloud operated by France’s Thales, for French government clients

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