Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30
27 days to get your users' third-party apps on Google’s sign-in
Devops03 Sep 2024 | 7
What is missing from the web? We're asking for Google
Besides sanity, of course
Offbeat30 Aug 2024 | 37
Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit
Chocolate Factory claims rival is trying to revive cases it's already lost
Legal29 Aug 2024 | 8
Rock Chrome hard enough and get paid half a million
Google revises Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program with higher payouts for bug hunters
Security29 Aug 2024 |
Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time
The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations
AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 26
Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall
DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 13
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty
Opinion The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback
AI + ML27 Aug 2024 | 112
Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back
Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant
Applications22 Aug 2024 | 21
Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards
Researchers find it's possible to downgrade authentication checks, and shabby token refresh policies
Research20 Aug 2024 | 32
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather
That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
Google raps Iran's APT42 for raining down spear-phishing attacks
US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit
Research15 Aug 2024 | 1
Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning
Eric Schmidt blamed WFH and work-life balance policies for Google's stumbles in AI race
Off-Prem15 Aug 2024 | 118
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious
Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better
Software15 Aug 2024 | 114
Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9
Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.
Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17
FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly
Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues
Legal13 Aug 2024 | 9
Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor
Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time
AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 47
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer
A career and life so classically Silicon Valley
Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 28
Entrust faces years of groveling to regain browsers' trust, say rival chiefs
Sectigo bosses claim it's only a matter of time before Microsoft and Apple drop Big E from their root stores too
Security08 Aug 2024 | 4
All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant
And you're replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That's a logical step for the evolving landscape of ...
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 14
Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others
And Qualcomm addresses 'permanent denial of service' flaw in its stuff
Patches06 Aug 2024 | 8
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin
Will you see the Lite?
Applications06 Aug 2024 | 96
Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against antitrust law, judge rules
Web giant to seek second opinion after bench labels biz 'a monopolist' in DoJ win
Applications05 Aug 2024 | 48
Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator
Infosec in brief Plus: CISA's AI hire; and claimed Canuck SIM swappers busted
Security05 Aug 2024 | 13
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates
Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
CSO01 Aug 2024 | 15
No love lost between Apple and Nvidia as iGiant chooses Google chips for AI training
Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv
AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 9
W3C says Google's cookie climbdown 'undermines' a lot of work
While some celebrate, the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group is not happy
Applications30 Jul 2024 | 29
Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update
Happy Sysadmin Day
CSO29 Jul 2024 | 13
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI
Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
Science27 Jul 2024 | 93
Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad
Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours – but who's counting?
AI + ML26 Jul 2024 | 14
India ditches its 'Google Tax' after US waved a big stick
Stakeholders found it an 'ambiguous' compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to
Public Sector25 Jul 2024 | 19
Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech
Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk isn't as high as feared
Personal Tech24 Jul 2024 | 8
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Updated Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them
Security24 Jul 2024 | 73
Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it
As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit
AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 3
Alphabet's reported $23B bet on Wiz fizzles out
Cybersecurity outfit to go its own way to IPO and $1B ARR
Security23 Jul 2024 | 4
Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles
Ad giant promises to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues
Software23 Jul 2024 | 60
What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it's complicated...
Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told
AI + ML22 Jul 2024 | 10
Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all
Links shortened with goo.gl will stop working in 2025
Networks19 Jul 2024 | 50
Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged
Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response
SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8
If you think AI labs wouldn't stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again
Comment What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably
AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 28
Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail
Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants
Off-Prem16 Jul 2024 | 2
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23B
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory?
Security15 Jul 2024 | 17
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage
OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation – asking for a friend in Brussels
Applications12 Jul 2024 | 46
AI for the masses is already here
How Gemini for Google Workspace uses AI to boost productivity within Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets
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Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch
The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers
Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Google Translate now fluent in 110 additional languages from Abkhaz to Zulu
Ta shoh scansh mie, son ymmyd
Applications02 Jul 2024 | 38
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings
Security28 Jun 2024 | 24
OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news – it was Time for better sources
Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues – in this case to quality publishers
AI + ML28 Jun 2024 | 11
Google begs court for relief from Epic Games' Play Store demands
$137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too
Applications26 Jun 2024 | 29
Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls
Because if there's one thing it really needed more of...
Software26 Jun 2024 | 2
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately
Scripts turn sus after mysterious CDN swallows domain
CSO25 Jun 2024 | 61
Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests
All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate
Research23 Jun 2024 | 34
Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated
Won't somebody pleeease think of the ... oh, right, they are
Personal Tech20 Jun 2024 | 5
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time
'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile
Research18 Jun 2024 | 27
Google datacenters in Nevada to go full steam ahead with geothermal energy
Part of Mountain View's aim for carbon-free power by 2030
On-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 6
Google's Privacy Sandbox more like a privacy mirage, campaigners claim
Updated Chocolate Factory accused of misleading Chrome browser users
Security13 Jun 2024 | 8
Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments
DMA-like law passes in pursuit of a more innovative and open smartphone market
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 10
Google borrows from Android to make ChromeOS better
'Large portions' of droid tech stack going into laptop OS plumbing
OSes12 Jun 2024 | 7
Microsoft extends Azure into Oracle cloud to satisfy OpenAI
Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business
Off-Prem12 Jun 2024 | 3
Quantinuum inches closer to fault-tolerant quantum with a 56 qubit machine
This one only produces errors 65 percent of the time. Woo-hoo!
Science07 Jun 2024 | 11
UK tribunal greenlights $17.4B advertising monopoly case against Google
Chocolate Factory entangled in yet another anti-competitive claim
Networks05 Jun 2024 | 7
Contrary to its fine print, Google says it won't confiscate repair returns that have unapproved parts
'We are updating our terms to clarify this' Pixel giant tells The Reg
Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 27
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