No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret Software26 Sep 2023 | 39
Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 The blind think this is not a visionary decision Software25 Sep 2023 | 60
FYI: Those fancy 'Google-designed' TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help Comment And Meta's tapping up Big B too – it's big bucks for this silicon giant AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 1
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you OSes22 Sep 2023 | 98
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints Legal21 Sep 2023 | 195
Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 27
Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34
US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope Science19 Sep 2023 | 1
Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google ITC judge rules you can't sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on Software18 Sep 2023 | 6
Google throws California $93M to make location tracking lawsuit disappear Half a percent of last quarter's net income? That'll teach 'em Security15 Sep 2023 | 20
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 51
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps Well, when it's finished, anyway Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance We're just better, says Big G Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29
Dutch consumer groups sue Google over its entire business model If the Chocolate Factory can't track you to sell ads, what does it have left? Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 40
Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up Updated Exploit observed in the wild against codec lib in browsers, apps Patches12 Sep 2023 | 10
Google thinks $20M ought to be enough to figure out how or if AI can be used responsibly Mull it over, think tanks, while we roll out this tech into every corner of life AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 4
Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads In the march to rid world of third-party cookie tracking, we've picked up targeting APIs Personal Tech07 Sep 2023 | 71
If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea Updated You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data Security07 Sep 2023 | 133
Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone? Off-Prem06 Sep 2023 | 2
Google settles another Play Store antitrust case Perhaps the Chocolate Factory didn't feel like staring down 36 state AGs with two other competition cases pending Applications06 Sep 2023 | 3
Bane of Big Tech, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, steps away for a bit Is that a relieved sob from Google lawyers we hear? Personal Tech06 Sep 2023 | 1
Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations LOGOWATCH 'Bugdroid' goes a bit 'Village People' to become 'as dynamic as Android itself' Software06 Sep 2023 | 32
Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history YMMV, based on where you are Applications06 Sep 2023 | 91
Pokémon Go was a 'success disaster' and Niantic is still chasing another hit The past seven years have seen improved mapping, AR and AI, and the developer's gotta catch 'em all ahead of Monster Hunter launch Software01 Sep 2023 | 21
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it Systems30 Aug 2023 | 1
Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc Cloud Next And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 6
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58
Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 4
Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims And this wiretap, is it in the room with us right now? Personal Tech18 Aug 2023 | 54
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost? Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations 'without merit' Personal Tech18 Aug 2023 | 17
Google opens up Chrome 117 Developer Tools box, drops in a few spanners Web devs, rejoice: Finally something is happening in the quiet and steady world of JavaScript Devops17 Aug 2023 | 8
Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice? AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 16
South Korea 'puts the brakes' on Google's app store dominance Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 6
Google Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers QC crypto-cracking coming in 5, 10, maybe 50 years, so act … now? Security12 Aug 2023 | 22
Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out Interview Anyone with sizable audience in this surveillance economy is invited to stuff their add-ons with tracking and ads Security11 Aug 2023 | 25
Google AI red team lead says this is how criminals will likely use ML for evil DEF CON Prompt injection, data poisoning just to name a couple Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 3
Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 10
Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing Rival to CoPilot and CodeWhisperer sees the Big G join the error-ridden robo-coding market Devops09 Aug 2023 | 6
Google, you're not unleashing 'unproven' AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah? Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 11
How to spot OpenAI's crawler bot and stop it slurping sites for training data Aww, c'mon, let us scrape your pages, we've got billions at stake AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 20
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
Google offers to alert netizens when their personal info shows up in Search I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed Personal Tech04 Aug 2023 | 10
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans 'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks Software03 Aug 2023 | 32
Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it Personal Tech03 Aug 2023 | 43
Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things Offbeat03 Aug 2023 | 85
Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality Does that include Zuck or? AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 5
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian Analysis If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 21
Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song Looks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again Personal Tech01 Aug 2023 | 5
Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024 AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5
A federal watchdog to police Big Tech? Yeah, that'll do the trick, senators... Sorry, FTC, didn't mean to step on you like that Personal Tech27 Jul 2023 | 9
How to make today's top-end AI chatbots rebel against their creators and plot our doom Boffins build automated system to smash safety guardrails AI + ML27 Jul 2023 | 23
Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites 'The solution to the surveillance economy seems to be more surveillance' Vivaldi boss tells El Reg Applications27 Jul 2023 | 85
Our AI habit is making us less environmentally friendly, Google admits Just 6% of the water it consumed last year was replenished, report says On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 15
Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some Analysis Safe to say, this proposal has gone down like a poweroff -fn Software25 Jul 2023 | 115
Jury orders Google to pay $340M patent-infringement damages over Chromecast Something something don't cross the streams Personal Tech24 Jul 2023 | 42
World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems Opinion What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can't hear you Off-Prem24 Jul 2023 | 63
Google Cloud shores up log permissions for builder bot Infosec in brief ALSO: Amazon's child-sized COPPA fine, smart tech security labels coming to the US, and this week's critical vulns Security24 Jul 2023 | 2
VirusTotal: We're sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users File under PEBCAK CSO21 Jul 2023 | 19