ChromeOS had severe security vulnerability
Published in News
Tuesday, 23 August 2022 11:21

ChromeOS had severe security vulnerability


Pointed out by Microsoft 

Microsoft has found a severe ChromeOS security vulnerability and even told Google about it in April.

Google's AI insists against all evidence that bloke is paedophile
Published in AI


Refuses his appeal 

Google's AI appears to have gotten a bit out of control after it closed a man's account insisting he was a paedophile.

Google improves search algorithm
Published in News
Tuesday, 23 August 2022 10:42

Google improves search algorithm


Inaccurate, unverified and hoax news sites punished 

Search engine outfit Google has changed its search algorithm to punish sites which spread inaccurate, unverified, clickbait and hoax news.

Software improvements keep quantum cats at bay
Published in News


Potentially dead or alive in the water for now

It seems that there is life in conventional computing yet as a better-written algorithm bested Google’s Sycamore quantum computer.

Google getting childish in Sonos spat
Published in News
Tuesday, 09 August 2022 10:37

Google getting childish in Sonos spat


Multinationals hate it when they lose

The spat between Google and Sonos managed to get even more silly after the search engine outfit sued over a new feature Sonos recently introduced onto its speakers.

Euro governments want Big Tech to pay for internet improvements
Published in Network


This will go down well 

After failing to get Big Tech to pay any significant amounts of tax, the government's of France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure.

Google Maps gets new features
Published in News
Thursday, 28 July 2022 12:05

Google Maps gets new features


Good for cyclists

Google Maps is launching a few new features some of which will be good for cyclists.

Google delays plans to kill off third party cookies
Published in News


Pushes back execution again

Google's plans to kill off third-party cookies in its Chrome browser have been delayed again until late 2024. The move was last scheduled for the end of 2023, a date already pushed back from sometime this year so we can tell that the search engine outfit is really enthusiastic about making this happen.

AI is about as easy to handle as a nuclear war
Published in AI


Schmidt Duran Duran cover

Google’s former chief executive Eric Schmidt has labelled AI as dangerous as nuclear weapons.

Heatwave dissolves British clouds
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:44

Heatwave dissolves British clouds


Google and Oracle offline 

The UK heatwave had a weird effect on Google and Oracle clouds with both had to take off their cloud services and servers because their cooling systems could not handle the temperature and were at risk of burning out.