ai and ml Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
AI Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
AI + ML Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions' But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner
Cyber-crime Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers
Cybersecurity Month Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it
AI + ML Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries
Off-Prem UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization
Cybersecurity Month Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10
Cybersecurity Month Google declares AI bug hunting season open, sets a $30K max reward Jailbreaks, direct prompt injection not allowed
Cybersecurity Month Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projects
Cybersecurity Month Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI 'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'
AI + ML Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too
AI + ML Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period
SaaS To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling
Databases Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream
Legal Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers They would say that, wouldn’t they?
OSes Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies
Software Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in
Networks Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help punters
Legal Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers It's all Biden's fault, Chocolate Factory claims
Research Google warns China-linked spies lurking in 'numerous' enterprises Mandiant CTO anticipates 'hearing about this campaign for the next one to two years'
Devops Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report
AI + ML AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns Misalignment risk? That's an area for future study
Patches OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data
AI + ML Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?
Patches Google pushes emergency patch for Chrome 0-day – check your browser version now Sixth such Chrome flaw this year spotted by the Chocolate Factory, already in play
SaaS UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment
Research Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware
Cyber-crime Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops Talk about an inside job
AI + ML Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch
Off-Prem Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish
AI + ML It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI Like a snake eating its own tail
Security Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch
Legal France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission
Legal Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI
Public Sector FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED
AI + ML Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden
Cyber-crime Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in 'widespread campaign'
Security Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia
AI + ML Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material
Applications Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates
Security Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us
Cloud Infrastructure Month Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges
AI + ML Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection
Public Sector Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!
AI + ML Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations But the free AI Mode itself can now take your history into account
Personal Tech FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached Fork runs Android apps and keeps old PCs ticking over ... all without signing into an account with the mothership
Applications Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'
Security More customers asking for Google's Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec
Science Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030 More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge
Legal Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more!
Personal Tech No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)
Legal Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power
Security Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE None under active exploit…yet
AI + ML Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion Could the most popular browser change hands?
AI + ML Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots
Cyber-crime Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions
Public Sector Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1
Legal Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options
Personal Tech Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys
Off-Prem Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries
Cloud Infrastructure Month When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu
Legal Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution
AI + ML New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data
Off-Prem How Google profits even as its AI summaries reduce website ad link clicks Google's AI Overviews are wrecking its old ad model, but Google's revenue is increasing with ads based on it
Software Publishers cry foul over W3C crusade to rid web of third-party cookies Advocacy group tells UK competition watchdog proposal favors Google
Off-Prem Google’s latest renewable energy deal is all gas bags and hot air At least big bags of CO2 can be built faster than a fusion plant
CSO Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it's making everything more dangerous Plus, 60% don't have enough analysts to make sense of it
Off-Prem Google just spent $14 billion on servers in 91 days, plans even higher spending soon G-Cloud on track for $50 billion revenue as AI creates a new generation of Google-eyed youth
AI + ML Google's open lakehouse: the foundation for enterprise AI data Unifying data to support AI applications used to come with trade-offs. Not any more, says Google
AI + ML Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again) Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers
PaaS + IaaS Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?
Cyber-crime Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too
AI + ML Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong? Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming
Research Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark
OSes Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered
Public Sector UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power
Public Sector Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more
Software Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts
Public Sector Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail
Legal Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed
Public Sector Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it
AI + ML With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware
Science Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work Someday, my prince will come
Personal Tech Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country
AI + ML The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge Turn out the lights, the internet is over
Legal EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue
Applications Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions
Software Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either
Cyber-crime Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on
Research Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links
Cyber-crime Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
AI Infrastructure Month Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal
AI Infrastructure Month Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain
CSO Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
Security Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official
Cyber-crime Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Disaster Recovery Week For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections
The State of Storage Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Applications You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Ransomware in Focus Triplestrength hits victims with triple trouble: Ransomware, cloud hijacks, crypto-mining
Cyber-crime Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims
Public Sector Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week
