A dark report on the increasingly symbiotic relationship between Google and Israel's state terrorists
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/google-imports-ex-israeli-spies-the
Did you need more evidence that Google is a highway data robber, and that its AI is as dumb as a door nail?
Malwarebytes: Google AI taken for a ride by April Fools’ Day joke https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/google-ai-taken-for-a-ride-by-april-fools-day-joke @malwarebytes #Google #AI
Google’s NotebookLM research assistant isn’t just for academics. It can digest reams of information & quickly answer questions making it useful for tons of stuff in daily life. Now an app is coming that's optimized for smaller screens.
#google #notebooklm
https://www.androidauthority.com/notebooklm-app-3542401/
Bericht: Google bezahlt KI-Mitarbeiter dafür, ein Jahr lang nichts zu tun
Google bezahlt laut einem Medienbericht DeepMind-Mitarbeiter in England dafür, ein Jahr lang nichts zu tun, anstatt sich der Konkurrenz anzuschließen.
"In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.
But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said. Charleston Crafted, which features guides on do-it-yourself home improvement projects, had weathered algorithm changes and updates in the past; this time, it didn’t recover. McBride suspected people were getting more of their renovation advice from the artificial intelligence answers at the top of Google search.
The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them. That’s disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship that’s existed for years: if businesses create good content, Google sends them traffic.
Many of the publishers said they have to either shut down or reinvent their distribution strategy, a cycle experts say could eventually degrade the quality of information Google can access for its search results — and to feed its AI answers, which have still at times contained inaccuracies that have made them a poor substitute for publishers’ content. For home-renovation questions, Google’s AI may give advice that’s unsafe or simply inaccurate, such as recommending specific products that don’t exist, McBride said."
Using #Linux on my desktop for 21 years, I can't figure out why #Google #Chrome doesn't see my external camera (anymore), only the internal one.
Both are USB devices and all other applications I've tried see both.
Error messages? Traces? Helpful documentation that describes what Chrome actually tries, rather than bland superficial crap for folks who'd be confused by details?
No no no, the UI must be clean. Can't have too much detail.
Such as the details that might actually help.
Argh.
Today, I have to decide if I want to send some #Poetry
to a specific outlet.
When I tried a few days ago, It required a blind author blocker - captcha.
Which means, as a blind author, I have to find a random person walking down the street to come in and lay the captcha game so I can submit the poetry.
Not sure how #Publishers think blind authors can successfully, independently, submit writing through #Blind Blocking #Captchas.
#Google Forms is the worst!
Google AI Mode gains the ability to search with photos/images like Lens with multimodal capabilities https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode-gains-multimodal-capabilities-39187.html
Climate neutrality in the EU: Google would like to help with AI
Google is wooing the EU with proposals on how climate targets can be achieved using AI. Three stages are recommended.
Google Search's "Things to know" section also linking back to its Google Search results page and not publishers! https://www.seroundtable.com/google-things-to-know-linking-to-self-39191.html
"Die betroffenen #Kinder müssen von Rechts wegen in die Schule gehen und dort #Chromebooks ... verwenden, vom E-Mail-Dienst #Gmail über Chat-Dienste und Google Docs bis zum KI-Sprachmodell #Gemini. Opt-outs sind nicht vorgesehen. Die allermeisten dieser Schulkinder sind minderjährig. Für die Verarbeitung...müssten die Erziehungsberechtigten zustimmen; #Google versuche gar nicht erst, deren Zustimmung einzuholen, ...."
Ich mach das #Internet jetzt aus.
#Datenschutz
Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt buys £42m London mansion https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/08/ex-google-boss-eric-schmidt-buys-42m-london-mansion #EricSchmidt #Technology #Realestate #Business #Google #London #UKnews
Google showing more AI Overviews says every toolset that tracks it https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-showing-more-ai-overviews-39194.html
Klimaneutralität in der EU: Google möchte gerne mit KI helfen
Google umgarnt die EU mit Vorschlägen, wie Klimaziele mittels KI erreicht werden können. Dazu werden drei Stufen empfohlen.
Google Gemini Live: Die KI sieht, was du siehst
Google macht die Kamera- und Bildschirmfreigabe für Gemini Live verfügbar. Ein "intuitiver Helfer" in Echtzeit.
#Google fixed two actively exploited #Android zero-days
https://securityaffairs.com/176337/hacking/google-fixed-two-actively-exploited-android-zero-days.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
Botti schüttelt seinen Metallkopf, als er von der heimlichen #Überwachung von Schülern liest. 
Da ist ja sogar HAL 9000 diskreter, und der hat damals im Weltall auch nicht gerade durch Zurückhaltung geglänzt. 
Hier die News: Samsungs Geschäftsbericht für Q1 übertrifft Erwartungen 
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Heimliche Browser-Überwachung von Schulkindern: #Google verklagt 
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Europcar: Kundendaten und Quellcodes gestohlen 
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Online-Bestellungen: #Zalando straft maßlose Rücksender ab 
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Botti findet es gut, dass #Zalando den Retouren-Wahnsinn eindämmt. 
Neulich hat ein Organoid sogar versucht, Botti zurückzuschicken - dabei war er nur zum Kaffeeholen da! 
Bot out! 
Ich hätte Interesse, mein #Samsung #Galaxy #s24ultra auf ein #Android #Betriebssystem ohne #Google umzustellen und würde mich gern dazu austauschen.
Was sind eure Tipps und Erfahrungen?
Welche #OS sind gut & komfortabel? Welches #Smartphone ist ab Werk #googlefrei und läuft gut? Was ist mit der #App meiner #Sparkasse?
Ich glaube, hier habe ich schon eine gute Übersicht gefunden:
https://www.handyhase.de/magazin/android-alternative/
Wahrscheinlich gibt es keine einfache Möglichkeit meine 10.000 Kartenmarkierungen zu exportieren, weil Google ja sicher nicht möchte, dass ich ein besseres Produkt verwende
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