S3 Ep 126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) [Audio + Text]
Worried about rogue apps? Unsure about the new Outlook zero-day? Clear advice in plain English… just like old times, with Duck and Chet!
Apple, Amazon, Google Will Likely Get a Reprieve From GOP-Controlled House on Antitrust Legislation
Tech giants Google, Amazon and Apple are likely to get a reprieve in Congress this year from efforts to rein in some of the companies’ most controversial and allegedly anti-competitive business practices — even though the legislation has typically enj…
Microsoft patches zero-days used by state-sponsored and ransomware threat actors (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880)
It’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 74 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-23397, CVE-2023-24880) by different threat actors. About CVE-2023-23397 “CVE-2023-2…
Google To Reportedly Launch Foldable Phone in June
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Google Pixel Fold could be available as soon as the second week in June, according to WinFuture’s Roland Quandt. The reliable leaker tweeted on Tuesday that the phone will come with 256GB base storage and that y…
Google Is Rolling Out More AI Features for Customers on the Cloud
Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-powered features for customers of its cloud-computing business, as the technology giant jostles for dominance in the burgeoning field with rivals such as Microsoft and startup OpenAI. From a report…
Google Dusts Off the Failed Google+ Playbook To Fight ChatGPT
According to Bloomberg, Google wants to build AI into everything to fight OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google issued “a directive that all of its most important products — those with more than a billion users — must incorporate generative AI within months.”
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Google’s Cloud Gaming Ambitions Died With Stadia, Exec Says
An anonymous reader shares a report: Two years ago, I wrote a reasonably prescient editorial about how the writing was on the wall for Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia — and how the company was now hoping to sell its white label streaming technolo…
Malvertising through search engines
Kaspersky observes a growth in malvertising activity that exploits Google search ads to promote fake software websites that deliver stealers, such as RedLine and Rhadamantys.
Google One expands security features to all plans with dark web report, VPN access
Google One unveiled two exciting additions to its range of features. Firstly, VPN by Google One will now be available to all plans, offering additional security while carrying out online activities. Secondly, introducing the dark web report in the U.S….
Google Groups Has Been Left To Die
An anonymous reader shares a blog: Google Groups is dying. Its epitaph is not yet inscribed on the Killed by Google website, but the end is easily seen from here (although it should also be noted its death was called as early as 13 years ago). The defi…