Google Is Cooking Up A New Aluminium OS
Hackaday noticed, second hand, a new job posting at Alphabet looking for a Senior Product Manager to work on a “new Aluminium, Android-based, operating system.” There isn't much detail about...
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Pay Attention To Unidentified Developers, Ignore The 19 Million Downloads Of An Infected App From The Google Play Store
Yesterday we learned of Google's plans to require developers to somehow authenticate themselves with Google so they can be identified, or else their Android apps will be blocked from installation...
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Google To Start Verifying All Android App Developers
Google is going through changes and Android users are going to notice them. Unlike Apple, Google lost their appeal in the antitrust case brought by Epic Games over the Play Store. This…
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Google’s Gemini AI Will Access Your Third Party Apps Again, Even If You Already Told It Not To
If you love Google's Gemini AI assistant you can ignore this as nothing will change for you as you will have granted it access to everything on your device already. On the other…
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Perplexity Is Coming To Moto But You Might Not Want To Take Advantage Of It
Perplexity has won a major battle against Google and it's stranglehold on Android devices. Google faces more than a few antitrust court cases over it's habit of forcing any Android device manufacturers…
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Chrome Bails On Google’s Privacy Sandbox And OpenAI Wants To Buy It And Make It “AI-first”
If Chrome is your browser of choice then Alphabet would like to offer you several new reasons to reconsider that preference. The first is their planned implementation of Google's Privacy Sandbox, which…
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Don’t Factory Reset That Untrusted Second Generation Chromecast Device
Second generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices ran into a wee bit of a problem yesterday. When owners of the devices tried to use them to stream content they were...
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Google Must Sell Off Chrome, With More To Come Possilble
The American Department of Justice has made a ruling that Alphabet must fully divest itself of Chrome, selling not just the ownership of the web browser but also providing development details to…
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500K Infected Android Devices Freed Of BadBox
It's rare to have good news on Insecurity Corner which is why the disruption of BadBox is a welcome breath of fresh air. Until very recently you could find BadBox present on…
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Eight Years Of Updates Promised For New Android Phones
There are quite a few people that upgrade their phone every other generation or so but that number is dropping. These early adopters should also consider this move as beneficial, assuming they…
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I Swear This One Trick Gets Rid Of The AI Answers At The Top Of Your Google Searches
There are studies which contradict the various sayings that vulgarity is only for those of low intelligence, they aren't great studies but they do indicate a positive correlation between the...
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Nice Cookie Encryption Scheme Google … Shame If Something Happened To It
Google's cookie encryption was a decent idea, a way to ensure that if a bad actor managed to get their fingers in your cookie jar, they wouldn't be able to savour a…
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Oh Joy, AI Infects YouTube! The Inspiration Tab Will Now Make Your Content For You
If you built up a YouTube channel over the years as a labour of love, devoting untold hours of your time to creating something to share with the world, the new Inspiration…
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Google’s Free VPN Is Gone, But Now Dark Web Monitoring Is For Everyone
If you used the VPN by Google One you likely noticed it was discontinued a few weeks back. If you miss that functionality you have two options. If you can get a…
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Quickly Stop Google Chrome’s Blue AI Box Ruining Your Search
It has been about two weeks since Google injected AI into the search results of many of their users, in the form of a blue box with AI powered results you need…
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How To Check If You Are In Google Chrome’s Cookie Phaseout Test
Google Chrome is testing a third-person cookie phaseout, adopting something many other browsers have offered for some time. Google is implementing it in a different way, which they believe will provide better…
Read MorePodcast #752 – Threadripper OC Blows a Fuse, TSMC 1.4nm, USB4 SSDs, RIP E3, 20Gbps Fiber, Flexispot & MORE
Stop! Once again for the 750th plus time, we gather, virtually, to discuss a wide array of topics, listed below in the time stamps. Also, Josh eats one of the messiest looking…
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YouTube’s Continuing War Against Adblockers
Slashdot linked to a story that has come up on Hacker News, 404 Media and others; the five second delay some Firefox users encounter when loading YouTube videos. As you...
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