Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials CSO18 Mar 2024 | 4
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 6
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 18
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' AI + ML15 Mar 2024 | 6
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 14
Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it's far from perfect Software14 Mar 2024 | 12
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M A $2M drop from previous year. So … things are more secure? Security13 Mar 2024 | 4
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 42
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise Personal Tech08 Mar 2024 | 12
Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Applications07 Mar 2024 | 22
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 18
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 If you really need obsolete OSes, here's a modern(ish) browser OSes06 Mar 2024 | 47
Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting Caught on camera: 'Our jobs are ended today, effective immediately' Offbeat05 Mar 2024 | 46
Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Databases04 Mar 2024 | 2
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman AI in brief Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 27
India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2
Indian tech minister vows to stop Google removing local apps from Play Store Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC director general to step down; Hong Kong's odd cloud survey; Rent-a-friend online in China; and more Software03 Mar 2024 | 8
Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech Meanwhile, the Google News Initiative is pushing AI tools for publishers Legal29 Feb 2024 | 6
Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 60
Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp Pair had to dodge croc on trek back to civilization Bootnotes23 Feb 2024 | 77
Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint Lawsuit accuses contractor and co-defendants of 'pacify and delay' tactics Legal23 Feb 2024 | 31
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
Reddit signs AI training deal with Google – and why OpenAI's Altman could be the winner IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 5
Web archive user's $14k BigQuery bill shock after running queries on 'free' dataset Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library Databases22 Feb 2024 | 38
Google debuts first Android 15 developer preview without a single mention of AI Expect it to be stable in June, ready for release sometime after July OSes19 Feb 2024 | 10
Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they'll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the 'net AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 12
Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML CSO17 Feb 2024 | 10
Google debuts Gemini 1.5 Pro model in challenge to rivals OpenAI meanwhile teases experimental text-to-vid system Sora AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 3
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car San Franciscans turn on empty robotaxi without apparent motive AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 109
Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories Interview AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 19
Google silences Bard, restrings it as Gemini with optional $20-a-month upgrade Say Gemini again, I dare you. I double dare you. Say Gemini one more goddamn time AI + ML09 Feb 2024 | 16
With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals Systems08 Feb 2024 | 7
The spyware business is booming despite government crackdowns Updated 'Almost zero data being shared across the industry on this particular threat,' we're told Security07 Feb 2024 | 35
Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes Comment They're back – and more oblivious than ever Offbeat06 Feb 2024 | 55
Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges Chocolate Factory matches Microsoft money for memory safety Devops05 Feb 2024 | 14
Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril Interview What is on HHS paper will most likely become law, Google security boss says Cyber-crime05 Feb 2024 | 12
Google flushes cached search results forever Chap in charge hopes the Internet Archive is willing to pipe in historical search results as a substitute Software05 Feb 2024 | 29
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ... AI + ML03 Feb 2024 | 7
Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process Applications03 Feb 2024 | 76
Brit watchdog thinks Google's tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn't cricket Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority Applications01 Feb 2024 | 15
AI is changing search, for better or for worse Feature Bing hasn't much benefited from its ML infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening Software30 Jan 2024 | 49
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech Opinion It's not just you – things really are getting worse Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 159
Native Chrome arrives fashionably late to the Windows on ARM party If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all? Software29 Jan 2024 | 15
Google's AI-fueled IDE Project IDX tries to show you how your app runs on Android, iOS Work in progress, approach with caution Software26 Jan 2024 | 3
FTC drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over billions pledged to OpenAI, Anthropic Updated Khaaaaaaan! Khaaaaaaaaaaan! AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 2
Google settles with Singular Computing over claims of stolen AI chip tech Search giant faced potential damages of over $5B but terms haven't been disclosed On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 8
Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet's plans for 'future capacity needs' On-Prem22 Jan 2024 | 9
Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely Off-Prem19 Jan 2024 | 6
Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing's market share? Oh, wait, never mind Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers AI + ML18 Jan 2024 | 10
Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way It won't be anywhere near the 12,000 heads that rolled last year, though, says Pichai Off-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 14
Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor The threat hunters believe COLDRIVER has used SPICA since at least November 2022 Research18 Jan 2024 | 5
Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens Updated Ad slinger bends to the demands of the DMA Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 33
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human Pen-equipped Ultra is this year's hero, helped by ‘Circle to Search’ that lets you Google without exiting apps Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 27