Search results for tag #google
If you are on #pixelfed I very much recommend using #pixelix as it is a much better #foss experience. It is also one of the most intriguing open-source app on #android that I have ever looked at. You can get it for free if via #github or #fdroid but you will have to purchase the app if you want it from #google #playstore
„Aus Sicht der Organisator:innen dient vieles, was uns als #Fortschritt verkauft wird, hauptsächlich dazu, das alte kapitalistische Spiel aus #Ausbeutung und #Akkumulation noch weiter voranzutreiben. So ersetzen #KI-Algorithmen keine Arbeit, sondern lagern sie nur aus – zum Beispiel an schlecht bezahlte Klickarbeiter:innen im Globalen Süden, die die Algorithmen per Hand trainieren.
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Dass die Konferenz in #Berlin stattfindet, ist kein Zufall. Tech-Unternehmen haben es seit jeher schwer, in der Stadt Fuß zu fassen. 2018 verhinderten Aktivist:innen erfolgreich einen „#Google Campus“ in Kreuzberg. Die Ansiedlung von #Tesla in Grünheide begleiteten Aktivist:innen mit Massenaktionen, Waldbesetzungen und Sabotage. Bei der deutschen #Tiktok-Niederlassung schafften es Gewerkschafter:innen zum ersten Mal, einen Streik in einem Tech-Unternehmen zu organisieren: #Berlin ist das Herz des europäischen Anti-#BigTech-Protests"
Das kam heute im #HR - Alternativen zu #Meta und #Google
Bei Minute 13:49 gehts los!
#did #dutgemacht #signal #whatsapp #hessischerrundfunk #hessen #alternative #messenger
@mosiwo
#Duckduckgo anstatt #Google?
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#Signal als Alternative??
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Duckduckgo ist US - da must du schon sehr feste glauben, dass die nix speichern!
siehe #NationalSecurityLetters
Signal geht auch nur mit deiner Telnr.... nur wozu eigentlich?
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DAS sind keine guten Alternativen!
Gute wäre vllt. Startpage.de (ist niederländisch und unterliegt der DSGVO) und #DeltaChat.
Aber beim #HR ist das noch zuviel #neuland !
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The slopification of the world continues…
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
From 'BuddhaBot' to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here
https://apnews.com/article/religious-chatbots-ai-technology-jesus-buddhabot-e1ed4832b25a23ee85292da681a0ec37?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress
it is a bit ironical to recommend #Signal, a centralized American service that runs on #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft services and depends heavily on them spending millions each year just to pay to Amazon and then in an #European context recommend that as "digital independence"
Some people say it is a compromise, but the bar is way too low if you recommend Signal at the “digital independence day”. At this point It's about selling a feeling instead of actual accomplishment
#Europe #digitalindependence #diday #did #autonomy #freedom #Sovereignty
If you use Google AI summaries or any other AI summaries:
- You are depriving the original source of traffic and diverting it to Google
- You are getting a questionable summary of what you asked for
- You are depriving yourself of the benefit of a more accurate picture
- You are outsourcing your research and discovery skills
Popular Science, from yesterday: Study: Google’s AI Overviews show millions of wrong answers every hour https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-overview-inaccuracy-google/ @PopularScience #Google #Gemini
Testing suggests Google's #AI Overviews tells millions of lies per hour
A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to assess the accuracy of AI Overviews, finding it's right 90 percent of the time. The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for #Google , that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day.
#artificialintelligence #gemini #search
It appears one or more impersonators have already registered some of the #Android applications that I maintained, including @appmanager. I've reported this to #Google, but not sure what's going to happen. The Android developer verification is still in beta, and it doesn't have a lot of features now to deal with this kind of problems.
Yesterday YouTube announced something fun. Nobody's really talking about what it actually is yet.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/smile-for-the-algorithm
#ai #youtube #gemini #google #privacy #blog #bigtech #userhostile
I'm positively surprised to see so much sense coming out of #Google #Deepmind, for a change. What's going on?A guess? Critihype: hype of their viewpoints and methods clothed in what appears to be criticism, in hopes that people like us spread it (thereby achieving the goal of hyping themselves). Google has regularly done just this for roughly two decades at this point. I won't read corporate PR wrapped in a lab coat from such clearly compromised labs with obvious, deep conflicts of interest. However, that'd be my guess. A lot of these folks fight amongst themselves about whether AGI is possible, whether doom or utopia will result from attempts at creating it, and other religious nonsense.
Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”
wow, i love the AI future!
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
I'm positively surprised to see so much sense coming out of #Google #Deepmind, for a change. What's going on?
I've made a closely related argument earlier:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07515
There are good logical and organizational reasons why living beings are sentient, but algorithmic systems can never be.
#Samsung is shutting down its text messenging app and forcing people onto #Google for SMS and MMS. At #techreclaimers we have been discussing alternatives to avoid Google. Several Reclaimers recommend Fossify Messages and Fossify Contacts as a good alternative, others have used Textra, and we'd all love to know about more options that keep your data private and sovereign.
If you're stuck, check these out and let us all know how you found the switch.
If you're a super user already, share the knowledge! What do you use?
https://www.fossify.org/apps/
https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech
Sticking with YouTube? This is how Google disrespects you.
9to5Google: YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers https://9to5google.com/2026/04/08/youtube-starts-showing-90-second-unskippable-ads-to-tv-viewers/ @9to5google #YouTube #Google
Betanews: Google insists it does not train Gemini with your emails https://betanews.com/article/google-insists-it-does-not-train-gemini-with-your-emails/ @betanews @sofia_w_w #Google #Gemini #privacy
Tubefilter: YouTube’s 2026 Coachella coverage includes its answer to FAST platforms. “This year, YouTube‘s coverage of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival is going to look a little bit different. The platform is continuing its 16-year tradition as the primary web video partner of the desert-set gathering, and the 2026 edition of Coachella will give many YouTube users their first look at a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/07/tubefilter-youtubes-2026-coachella-coverage-includes-its-answer-to-fast-platforms/AP: Samsung is discontinuing its texting app, tells impacted users to switch to Google Messages https://apnews.com/article/samsung-android-messages-google-gemini-823b3eb598611b127e66008ee4390da6 @AssociatedPress #Samsung #Google
I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any #socialmedia app.
If one, just one applicant, mentioned their open source or #selfhosting skills, that would be a ticket to an immediate interview.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/5Q3xMsc9ZcmpvByPrR3r31
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_google_116352125438741557_fr)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://ppc.land/googles-first-mainland-china-search-event-lands-in-shanghai-on-may-15/")
Google capitalise sur l'événement majeur à Shanghai pour accélérer sa présence et son influence sur le marché chinois.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/tWy9PY6G2UwFAiWupdFDsY
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_google_116352125438741557_en)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://ppc.land/googles-first-mainland-china-search-event-lands-in-shanghai-on-may-15/")
Google’s return to mainland China represents a significant realignment of global search dominance.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/tHdh1xVqdPHx7j7C5tX6cN
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_google_116352125438741557_de)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://ppc.land/googles-first-mainland-china-search-event-lands-in-shanghai-on-may-15/")
Die Erschließung des chinesischen Suchmarktes stellt eine signifikante Chance und Herausforderung dar.
Vários assuntos a tratar em um único tooth.
O GNOME vai engatar a ré novamente, retirando o suporte nativo a alguns serviços da Google. Dependo completamente do Google Agenda por motivos de compartilhamento de agendas profissionais e familiares, e a integração do recurso com o calendário do GNOME é perfeita. Porém a partir do GNOME 50 essa integração não existirá mais.
“Ah, mas por quê vc não instala o Nextcloud e blablablá...”. Jovens, trabalho com inúmeras pessoas. Será que vou ter que falar pra elas que “não trabalho com o Google Agenda, e se quiser marcar reuniões comigo terão que criar uma conta na minha instância do Nextcloud.”? Kkkkkk, meus amigos, o mundo real não funciona assim. Essas coisas só existem no mundo utópico imaginário de um pessoal aí.
Tem uma falácia que diz que o open source é bom pq se um desenvolvedor abandonar um projeto, outra pessoa assume. Deixo aqui o motivo pelo qual o GNOME está abandonando o suporte ao Google nativamente:
#gnome #goa #google #libgdata #fail
#Smartphone ohne #USA: Wie realistisch digitale Unabhängigkeit ist
#Android kommt von #Google, #iOS von #Apple – viele zentrale Smartphone-Dienste stammen aus den USA.
Doch was, wenn man das ändern möchte? Gibt es Smartphones und Tablets, die ohne US-Software funktionieren? Grundsätzlich ja – man muss aber mit einigen Einschränkungen und Unbequemlichkeiten rechnen…..
I've recently summed up my thoughts on generative "AI" on my homepage. Here's a screenshot of that section.
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
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My thoughts on generative "AI"
I'm glad generative artificial "intelligence" was not a thing yet during the vast majority of my career. A number of realizations arose while exploring generative Large Language Models…
Generative AI is based on massive theft from creatives, without consent, credit or compensation. Using gen-AI is asking a chatbot to spit out the combined efforts of ripped-off creatives. It is industrializing and devaluing human expression, artistry and craftsmanship. Creatives are losing their jobs and motivation because tech corporations unscrupulously absorb and exploit their work. If you appreciate art, support the artists, not the thieves of their labor.
Tech corporations are building more and more huge data centers for AI processing, consuming lots of internet bandwidth, energy, water and more, increasing scarcity, prices and emissions, degrading the already fragile environment.
Unless you're using a fully local AI configuration, every bit of data you submit contributes to the power and reach of corporations and governments, decreasing your privacy and security.
Generative AI enables deepfakes that are widely used for abuse, deception, cybercrime, misinformation and propaganda, polluting justice, science advancement and news report credibility.
More text doesn't fit in this Alt text, but everything can be read over at https://metinseven.nl
“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”
Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.
The Guardian | Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals by Dara Kerr
Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco
Google has struck a partnership for a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its datacenters in Texas, unearthed by new research and confirmed by the company. The move is part of an ongoing about-face for the tech giant, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy.
The gas power plant is slated to be built in Armstrong county, a sparsely populated area in the Texas panhandle. According to a report by the research organization Cleanview, the project is being led by Crusoe Energy, which partnered with Google to develop the datacenter campus known as “Goodnight”, named after a nearby town.
Continue reading...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter
#ai(artificialintelligence) #climatecrisis #google #datacenter #carbondioxide
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@wired.com@web.brid.gy
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.
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A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
Freezenet Experiments With Google Ads
Freezenet is announcing that an experiment is underway with Google ads. We've already learned a fair bit.
https://www.freezenet.ca/freezenet-experiments-with-google-ads/
#News #SiteAnnouncements #ads #Advertising #Freezenet #Google
Host on PeerTube.
‘Goal is viewer addiction’: Damning email from YouTube employee show company’s alleged mission
> YouTube executive’s deposition revealed an employee noted a ‘goal’ was to make an app addictive
If you missed this, Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant had a thing to say about Axios.
Google: North Korea-Nexus Threat Actor Compromises Widely Used Axios NPM Package in Supply Chain Attack https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/north-korea-threat-actor-targets-axios-npm-package #infosec #Google #threatintel #threatintelligence
Google patched some vulnerabilities yesterday, if you missed the release.
Google: Stable Channel Update for Desktop https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_31.html
Security Week: Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-zero-day-among-21-vulnerabilities-patched-in-chrome/ @SecurityWeek #Google #vulnerability #Chrome #zeroday
Do you hate how Google's AI takes the work of journalists & summerizes it without linking to the websites anymore?
Now there's a Chrome extension you can get that stops #Google from using its own #ai for answers! It provides good ol' web links, like Sergey Brin, Larry Page & God intended.
It's called Bye-bye Google AI & was made by Avram Piltch last year. Here's the story, which also includes gives other ways to turn it off in ios & Android. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/imllolhfajlbkpheaapjocclpppchggc
A California jury found Meta and Google liable for defective social media design harming a youth, awarding $6M in damages. The verdict may affect 2,000 similar cases and highlights risks of addictive platform features ⚖️
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict
#TechNews #Meta #Google #SocialMedia #DigitalWellness #UserSafety #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #Addiction #YouthSafety #Transparency #Accountability #Technology #IT #Youth #California #Jury #Addictive
This is alarming but not surprising:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/24/google-cookies-help-cops-identify-anonymous-users/
TLDR If you access multiple Google accounts from the same device, and the cops know about one of the accounts and ask Google the right questions, Google will tell the cops about the other accounts.
The general lesson here is one we already know: if you have any sort of account you don't want linked to you, you can't ever access it from a device or network connection you use other accounts on.
Caveat usor.
#infosec #OpSec #Google
RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906
Ready for another joke? 🥁
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡
Did a quick video on the #cybersecurity breach of FBI Director, Kash Patel's e-mail and why you could be next.
#cybersecurity #infosec #servers #vps #servers #email #hackers #vulnerabilities #opensource #cloud #microsoft #google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6TK-QjTPw&feature=youtu.be
Chemnitzer-Linuxtage-Nachlese Teil 1:
Das Datenschutz-Problem mit Push-Benachrichtigungen – sehr eindringlich und unterhaltsam erklärt von Merle Fäller
Ich wollte nur Zulip-Notifications auf dem Handy. Also habe ich angefangen, selbst was zu bauen – und bin in ein Rabbit Hole gefallen.
Dieser Vortrag erzählt die Geschichte, wie ich versucht habe, ein Problem zu lösen – und dabei verstanden habe, wie Push-Notifications wirklich funktionieren. Warum mein erster Ansatz nicht skaliert. Warum fast jede App Firebase oder APNs nutzt. Warum selbst Signal bei Google anklopft. Und warum das seit dem Wyden-Brief von 2023 ein dokumentiertes Privacy-Problem ist: »We kill people based on metadata.«
Ich zeige, welche Alternativen es mit UnifiedPush und ntfy gibt, wie ich eine Bridge für Zulip gebaut habe, und warum das gleiche Problem auch für Prometheus-Alerts, Grafana-Notifications und CI/CD-Pipelines gilt. Und was das mit digitaler Souveränität zu tun hat.
https://media.ccc.de/v/clt26-143-warum-selbst-signal-bei-google-und-apple-anklopft
#google #notifications #firebaseCloudMessaging #gcm #firebase #fcn #apple #apn #ntfy #UnifiedPush #zulip #messenger #instantMessenger #clt2026
For the #FreeBSD #Google Summer of Code #GSoC 2026 programme, we now have 3 shortlistees for the #EFI MonotonicCounter project, and 1 shortlistee for #multicast snooping in #if_bridge . There is less than 36 hours until the gate closes. Be swift about it!
Verifikationspflicht in der EU: Wenn EU-Kommission, #Google und andere Konzerne bestimmen, was Du im Netz machen darfst:
Auch auf dem europäischen Festland planen Regierungen die zeitnahe Einführung von staatlichen Zugangsschranken mit Verifikationspflichten für das Internet.
Die EU-Kommission lässt in Kooperation mit Tech-Unternehmen wie T-Systems zur Zeit eine Altersverifikations-App entwickeln, mit der das Alter von Internetnutzer*innen kontrolliert werden soll. Die #EU bezeichnet das geplante Verfahren als eine datenschutzfreundliche Lösung.
Auch wenn sie datenschutzrechtskonform implementiert werden würde, bedeutet die Verifikationspflicht die Errichtung einer zentralisierten, (über)staatlichen Kontrollinfrastruktur, die das Verhalten von Nutzer*innen kontrolliert.
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Wenn EU-Kommission, #Google und andere Konzerne bestimmen, was Du im Netz machen darfst:
EU will Alterskontroll-App an #Google binden
‚Die #EU arbeitet an einer App, mit der Millionen Menschen künftig ihr Alter nachweisen sollen. Doch schon am Prototypen entzündet sich Kritik: Eine Bindung an Google-Dienste würde US-Konzerne stärken und sogar gegen eigene Vorgaben der EU verstoßen.‘
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/prototyp-vorgestellt-eu-will-alterskontroll-app-an-google-binden/
#Überwachung #Kontrolle #Europe #Altersverifikation #Antireport
#Police investigating ex-Harrods boss sex abuse probe -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html17
#Trump official refers #NewYork AG Letitia -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/markets.html#7
#DOJ probes #California, #Maine over transgender inmate -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#4
PM Modi seek blessings for devotees from #Goddess -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#15
Fully Unlocked #Google Pixel 10 Pro Is $250 Off During -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#80
View all news from the UK https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-united-kingdom.html
Ughhhh if the fucking California legislature forces me off GrapheneOS and back onto Android, I may have to just go back to using a flip phone. I CANNOT DO IT.
https://itsfoss.com/news/grapheneos-refuses-age-verification/
Social media giants have pushed engagement-driven designs to keep us on their platforms, so they can harvest our data for advertising revenues.
The landmark verdict against Meta and Google is a crucial step in acknowledging that Big Tech's harmful business models are creating toxic online spaces.
Read more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #BreakBigTech #bigtech #socialmedia #meta #google
The UK Government should take note. Age ID checks for Internet access won't solve online harms.
It does nothing to tackle their structural causes: advertising-driven business models built on surveillance, profiling and maximising engagement.
All it does is threaten privacy. We must #BreakBigTech.
#onlinesafety #bigtech #socialmedia #meta #google #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Mittwoch: FIFA-WM 2026 auch bei YouTube, Pentagon-KI mit OpenAI statt Anthropic
YouTube als FIFA-Partner + Claude-Abschied aus Pentagon + Mastercard mit Stablecoin-Firma + PayPal-Abschied von Google-Wallet + Beschwerde nach Schuldaten-Klau
#Anthropic #Blockchain #Cybercrime #Datenleck #Datenschutz #Google #hoDaily #Journal #Kryptowährung #Kreditkarten #Militär #OpenAI #Paypal #Smartwatch #YouTube #news
There are no "smart glasses".
Meta/Facebook and Ray-Ban would like you to call them that, but you shouldn't. You should call them by their proper, accurate name.
That is "creep glasses". People who wear them are "glassholes".
If you see anyone wearing them in public, you should stop what you're doing, point dramatically at them, and loudly say "Hey, this creep is recording you without your permission! He's a glasshole!" [1]. Ignore any protests of "I'm not recording!", because the tell-tale indicator is trivially bypassed, so you *have* to assume every user is recording, all the time.
Mock them. Insult them. Shun them. Make sure everyone knows they're a creep. If you know someone who has creep glasses, make sure they never, ever wear them in your presence. Warn everyone you know about them.
What killed creep glasses the last time around - remember Google Glass? - was social opprobrium. Do it again. Make it *extremely* uncomfortable to be caught wearing them in public, so they *stop* fucking wearing them in public. You want them gathering dust, in shame, in the back of a drawer somewhere. You want the creep owner to feel a deep pang of regret every time they think about them.
[1] It will be a "he". I guarantee it.
#creep #CreepGlasses #SmartGlasses #GoogleGlass #Facebook #Meta #Google #SpyGlasses #record #video #opprobrium #creepy
Prozess um Social-Media-Sucht: US-Jury spricht Meta und Google schuldig
Instagram und YouTube haften für Schäden wegen Social-Media-Sucht. Das Urteil vom Mittwoch gilt als Präzedenzfall für Tausende ähnliche Verfahren.
#Google #Instagram #Jugendschutz #Facebook #Netzpolitik #OnlineSucht #SocialMedia #YouTube #news
Students are being funneled into #Google’s ecosystem
Schon wieder ein schlechter Schritt von Google 👎
https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/google-messages-im-web-der-qr-code-fliegt-raus
> For example, Google reduced our headline “I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to just five words: “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all.
#news #TechNews #technology #google #search #AI #LLMs #enshittification
Oh wow, and this might get worse.
"The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/
via https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070
#news #TechNews #technology #google #search #AI #LLMs #enshittification
Smart-TV: Europäische TV-Sender wehren sich gegen Tech-Konzerne
TV-Sender fordern strengere Regeln für Smart-TVs und virtuelle Assistenten der Tech-Giganten. Diese fungieren zunehmend als Gatekeeper für Inhalte und Publikum.
#Amazon #Apple #DigitalMarketsAct #EU #Google #Netzpolitik #Rundfunk #Samsung #SmartTV #news
Google will add a 24-hour delay and multi-step “advanced flow” to sideload unverified Android apps, aiming to curb malware and social engineering attacks 📱
The change raises concerns about platform openness, developer access, and user freedom as Android adds tighter controls despite keeping sideloading available 🔐
#TechNews #Android #Google #Privacy #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #Security #Apps #Data #Freedom #Antitrust #BigTech #Software #Mobile #DigitalRights
Are you considering OS's for your Android phone like #GrapheneOS or #lineageos to escape the #Android lock and #Google
spying?
The only tricky part is that GrapheneOS only supports Pixel phones while LineageOS supports a wider variety of vendors and phones but you may still need a generation or two down.
New.
- "Global median dwell time rose to 14 days from 11 days"
- "Initial access partners are using low-impact techniques, such as malicious advertisements or the ClickFix social engineering technique, to gain a foothold. They then hand off this access to secondary groups who execute high-impact operations like ransomware."
Mandiant: M-Trends 2026: Data, Insights, and Strategies From the Frontlines https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/m-trends-2026
More:
Security Week: M-Trends 2026: Initial Access Handoff Shrinks From Hours to 22 Seconds https://www.securityweek.com/m-trends-2026-initial-access-handoff-shrinks-from-hours-to-22-seconds/ @SecurityWeek #Google #infosec #cybercrime #threatintel #threatintelligence
Googles neuer Ablauf für Android-Sideloading erfordert Neustart und Wartezeit
Der neue Prozess für die App-Installation ohne Play Store soll vor allem Scam-Versuche erschweren. Die Hürden werden höher, für Power-User gibt es Ausnahmen.
#Android #Betriebssystem #Kriminalität #Developer #Google #GooglePlayStore #Mobiles #Scamtracker #Security #Smartphone #news
It seems hard to escape the AI virus. It's also infecting the open source world…
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
#FOSS #OpenSource #tech #technology #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude #editor #app #apps #tools #software #linux #FreeSoftware #free #BigTech
#Android is fucking dead.
If you have an Android device, please wipe it and install #PostmarketOS today while you can still unlock the bootloader.
We all know that #Google wants to kill the “unverified/sideloaded” apps (names carefully selected by Google’s professional gaslighters to give a negative connotation to “apps that are not distributed by Google’s own store”).
We all know that the new “verification process” amounts basically to a ransom where you need to give Google your keys and your money if you want to build apps for Android.
It involves developers handing their signing keys to Google (so they will sign your package for you and will also able to decrypt your secrets) and paying them a $25 fee for each app.
Even if you don’t even use the Play Store to distribute your apps.
This is not a price to pay to get the app distributed through them, nor for using any of their services. It’s a price to pay just because they want to control the whole ecosystem end-to-end, and they know that they can get away with that because you’ll keep using their shitty OS even if you’re outraged at them.
We all know that they got a lot of backlash. And after the backlash they reiterated that they “listened to the community” and would have made a process to still allow people to “sideload apps”.
Well, today that process has been finally unveiled. And it sounds even shittier than I thought.
That’s because Google is currently filled with the best professional enshittificators in the world: the job role of these people is not to build new things, nor to listen to customers and build what they want. No, their job is specifically to find the sweet spot where they can make things as shitty as possible, add as much friction and user frustration as possible to prevent them from doing a certain thing, while still being able to tell regulators “well, it’s not that shitty, you see? We still give users an option - buried under 10 layers of dark patterns”.
In order to install apps external to the Play Store you will have to:
Activate the developer settings (the usual “tap the build number 7 times to show the hidden menu” thing)
In the developer settings, enable “Allow Unverified Padckages”
Confirm that you are not being coerced (seriously, how much malware did they actually see installed by people being coerced or tricked to download and install random APK files?)
Restart your device
Wait 24 hours
Return to the unverified packages settings
Scroll past 3-4 additional warnings whose sole purpose is to scare you off
Select either “Allow temporarily“ (7 days) or “Allow indefinitely“ (and I’ve got a hunch that the Allow indefinitely option will probably be gradually phased out)
Nach März-Update: Pixel-Besitzer berichten von einfrierenden Sperrbildschirmen
Nutzer berichten davon, dass ihre Pixel-Smartphones nach dem Einspielen des März-Pixel-Drops Probleme mit dem Aufwecken auf dem Sperrbildschirm haben.
#Android #Google #GooglePixel #Mobiles #Reddit #Smartphone #Updates #news
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
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Google Threat Intelligence Group: The Proliferation of DarkSword: iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Multiple Threat Actors https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain #Google #infosec #Apple #iOS #threatintel #threatintelligence
#ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the #Senate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/politics/us-senate-chatgpt-ai-chatbots.html
🚨 Less than 168 days remain before Android becomes a locked down platform!
Google intends to force all software developers to register with a centralized Google service before their apps can run on the biggest mobile operating system on the planet, regardless of whether those apps are distributed via Google Play.
Find @keepandroidopen’s website at https://keepandroidopen.org for more information about this, why it’s a problem, and how you can make your voice heard.
As supporters of open platforms we have consistently encouraged developers and alternative app stores to refuse to participate in this program, and to spread this message throughout the Android community.
Read our open letter to Google’s leadership: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
Game Business: Take-Two CEO Interview: ‘The notion that AI can make GTA is laughable’ https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/take-two-ceo-interview-the-notion #Google
Google says "Noooo, don't use a password manager, let us handle that for you!"
How about no.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/android-17-blocks-non-accessibility.html?m=1
Das Fairphone 6 erhält Update auf Android 16
Eigentlich erst für April angekündigt, verteilt Fairphone das Update auf Android 16 für sein aktuelles Smartphone bereits ab dem 16. März schrittweise.
#Android #Fairphone #Google #Mobiles #Nachhaltigkeit #Smartphone #Updates #news
你吐槽Chrome应用商店的Claude.ai插件无法在Arc、Vivaldi运行，并且给1、2Star可以，毕竟都是Chromium内核。
但是这个人怎么吐槽Firefox不能运行这个插件？这和去Apple官网给自己的Android手机找售后有什么区别，Linux用户也可以使用Chrome，去Chrome 商店发评论，开发者也管不了 Firefox 的适配问题啊，哭错坟了（
还有没有Claude.ai订阅的用户不要去试了（
#chromewebstore #chrome #google #extension #plugin #firefox #claude
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Google Threat Intelligence Group: Ransomware Under Pressure: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures in a Shifting Threat Landscape https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ransomware-ttps-shifting-threat-landscape
Speaking of ransomware, there are some interesting new targets listed today at Ransomware.live: https://www.ransomware.live/id/U2hvY2sgZm9yIElzcmFlbGkgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlOiAxMDAsMDAwIENsYXNzaWZpZWQgRW1haWxzIG9mIE1vc3NhZOKAmXMgRXgtRGVwdXR5IERpcmVjdG9yIFMuLi5AaGFuZGFsYQ #Google #ransomware #threatintel #threatintelligence
Of course the review failed (as usual, without a notification mail). Now they pick random APK files: remove one, then it's the next. Until the repo is empty, I guess. Snippet updated.
Disable "Safe" browsing, it's snake oil as you can see. We've been libeled now many times, always false positives. See https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#notes-on-how-to-disable-google-safebrowsing-in-browsers-on-android for how to disable it.
Of course all our APKs have been scanned, multiple times, with many engines. They're clean. Says even G's own scanner.
I currently have e/os/ on a Samsung Galaxy S5 that is still useful.
I am all for alternatives. So while I support the petition to keep Android open, it is a petition and Google is still in control. Time will tell if they decide to compromise on their planned changes to reduce the openness of Android.
I had a client just deliver a big directive: "Get me a written step by step plan to get us off of #gmail and I want to move all of our workstations to #Linux. "
We are six months into my plan for moving away from #cart and #cloudflare and #google on the website, now #email and #Windows are on he chopping block.
#3DS is the biggest stumbling block
Oh my, those clowns again. They cannot even tell servers apart, but want to play the "Safety Police"? What are they doing for a living, by the way (apart from slurping and selling our data)?
Yes, that's the same file as in January. On a different server. But they flag yet another, that does not even have that file. Incompetent folks, they should shut down that "service". Will they ever stop that nonsense?!?
#Google #SafeBrowsing #failure
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Google SafeBrowsing flagging one website for a file on a different website (the two just share the second-leve domain), for a file their own malware engine declares clean.
Termux
- platform: Android
- type: sh environment
- goal: have the power of linux sh in Android
- license: GNU GPL Open Source
- development: active
- users: more than I can imagine
Termux which is the powerful Linux sh environment for Android is constantly under attack by Google
I've installed it on many different Androids with different versions and classes of the Android operating system
The direct reaction of the Play Store daemon is the same.
Warning Termux is an unsafe program!
wtf?
Why does google lie and stay that Termux is a program that should not be trusted?
This is a false and blatant deceptive action of Google, who is snooping on the Android phone, your personal property, because Termux gives you the flexibility to look at things which Google tries to hide from you on your own phone!
The Termux distribution is regularly patched and updated just like any other regular Linux distribution which is properly maintained
Keep installing Termux it gives you freedom on your Androids
#termux #linux #OpenSource #google #false #malicious #Alphabet #flagging #GNU #GPL #programming #distro #technology
These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/ai-defense-warfare-companies
Companies like #Palantir, #Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Anduril, and #OpenAI are implicated, with their AI systems integrated into military operations, blurring the lines between commercial technology and lethal weaponry. The existing international humanitarian law framework, designed for human decision-making, is unable to accommodate AI warfare, where accountability is diffused and reasoning is opaque.
#palantir #Google #amazon #microsoft #anduril #openai #Iran #usa #israel #warcrimes #dualusetech
A new European consortium led by Volla is creating UnifiedAttestation, an open-source alternative to Google's Play Integrity API 📱.
This would enable secure payments and sensitive apps on Google-free custom ROMs, reducing dependency on proprietary US infrastructure and advancing user sovereignty 🔒.
#TechNews #Android #Privacy #OpenSource #Google #Security #Payments #FOSS #Mobile #Linux #UserFreedom #DigitalSovereignty #Software #Technology #Innovation #Europe #ROM
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Microslop
https://www.s-config.com/microslop
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #Microsoft #copilot #Meta #Google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude #linux #FOSS #OpenSource
#AI #Disinformation #War #BigTech #FarRight #OpenAI #Google
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AI Lead | Managing Data Scientist | Public Speaker
#BBC tech reporter spent 20 minutes writing a fake blog post, claiming he’s the world’s #1 hot dog-eating journalist. Even invented a fake championship to back it up. Within 24 hours, watch #ChatGPT and #Google repeat it as fact.
He manipulated two of the world’s most powerful #AI systems with a BS single page.
Users trust AI answers more than websites, because it feels like the answer comes directly from the tech company itself. Not from a random page somewhere on the #internet.
In the early 2000s, people learned how to game Google. In 2026, people are learning how to game AI retrieval systems.
If one blog post can convince an AI that a journalist is the world’s top competitive hot-dog eater, imagine what a coordinated #strategy by a company or foreign adversary can do for a product, a company, or a political narrative.
These tactics will be used to push falsehoods far more than truth.
Welcome to the #Disinformation Age.

BBC Headline:
I hacked ChatGPT and Google’s AI – and it only took 20 minutes
Thomas Germain
https://tecnopolitica.blog.br/#podcast
Episódio imperdível do #podcast de @samadeu@mastodon.social a ser compartilhado com quem ainda não estiver por dentro desses conceitos.
#ética #NoAI #LLM #Anthropic #OpenAI #soberaniaDigital #Serpro #nuvem #BigTech #Google #AWS #Microsoft #Oracle #Palantir #CloudAct #tecnopolítica #tecnologia
Verifying yourself on #LinkedIn?
Congratulations! "I handed a US company (Persona) my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over"
Also, #Persona shares that data with #Anthropic, #OpenAI, #Amazon, #Google, and of course #Microsoft (that owns LinkedIn)
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Chrome comes to Linux on ARM64
Google has announced that it will release Chrome for Linux on ARM64 in the second quarter of this year.
Launching Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices allows more users to enjoy the seamless integration of Google’s most helpful services into their browser. This move addresses the growing demand for a browsing experience that combines the benefits of the open-source Chromium pro
https://www.osnews.com/story/144592/chrome-comes-to-linux-on-arm64/
It was not so long ago that working with the military on potentially harmful technology was seen as a red line for many big tech workers.
In 2018, thousands of #Google employees launched a protest against a program to analyze drone footage for the DoD called #Project #Maven.
“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,” over 3,000 workers stated in an open letter at the time.
Google decided not to renew Project Maven following the protests and published policies that barred pursuing technology that could “cause or directly facilitate injury to people”.
🔥In the years since the Project Maven protest, though, Google has clamped down on employee activism,
removed the 2018 language from its policies that prohibited creating technology for weaponry
and signed numerous contracts that allow militaries to use its products.
⚠️In 2024, the tech giant fired over 50 employees in response to protests against the company’s military ties to the Israeli government.
Chief executive Sundar Pichai sent a memo to employees after the firings stating that Google was a business and not a place to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics”.
⛔️Google announced just this week that it would provide its Gemini artificial intelligence to provide the military a platform for creating AI agents to work on unclassified projects.
#OpenAI too had a blanket ban on allowing any militaries to access its models prior to 2024,
but since and now has its chief product officer serving as a lieutenant colonel in the US military’s “executive innovation corps”.
🔸The startup, along with Google, Anthropic and xAI, signed an up-to-$200m contract with the DoD last year to integrate its technology into military systems.
💥On the day that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, OpenAI secured a deal with the DoD allowing its tech to be used in classified military systems.
Elsewhere in the tech industry, more hawkish companies like defense tech firm #Anduril, founded the year before the Google Maven protests, and surveillance tech maker #Palantir have made partnering with the DoD a cornerstone of their businesses
and attempted to sway Silicon Valley politics towards their worldview.
♦️Palantir has been ahead of the curve on working with the military, contracting with military intelligence to map planted explosives in Afghanistan in the early 2010s.
🔸Chief executive Alex Karp published a book last year dedicated in large part to advocating for closer integration of the tech industry and AI with the US military, in one passage accusing the Google workers who protested in 2018 of being nihilists.
👉After Google dropped the Project Maven contract in 2019, Palantir took it over. Maven is now the name of the classified system that military personnel use to access Anthropic’s Claude, according to the Washington Post
Google Chrome kommt für ARM64-Linux
Google kündigt Chrome für ARM64-Linux an. Der Browser soll im zweiten Quartal 2026 erscheinen und die volle Google-Integration mitbringen.