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Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year

Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery

It's do or die for Apple AI

WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'

If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks

When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider

Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results

Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday

Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits

CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet

Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days

Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat

Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot

Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI

Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys

Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans

Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere

Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'

But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers

Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters

If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it

Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic

Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries

Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI

'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'

Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool

Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too

Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills

By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help punters

Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers

It's all Biden's fault, Chocolate Factory claims

Google warns China-linked spies lurking in 'numerous' enterprises

Mandiant CTO anticipates 'hearing about this campaign for the next one to two years'

Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development

Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report

AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns

Misalignment risk? That's an area for future study

OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes

Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data

Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?

Google pushes emergency patch for Chrome 0-day – check your browser version now

Sixth such Chrome flaw this year spotted by the Chocolate Factory, already in play

Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems

PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish

It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI

Like a snake eating its own tail

Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch

France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission

Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme

Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia

Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home

AI am inevitable, AI firm argues

Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI

It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material

Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register

Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads

Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us

Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty

Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges

Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned

Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection

Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal

If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!

Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge

Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine

PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more!

No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results

How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)

Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia

Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1

Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options

Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools

Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys

Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes

On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries

When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead

If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu

Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle

Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution

New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read

DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data

How Google profits even as its AI summaries reduce website ad link clicks

Google's AI Overviews are wrecking its old ad model, but Google's revenue is increasing with ads based on it

Google's open lakehouse: the foundation for enterprise AI data

Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again)

Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to

Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs

Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work

Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules

Scattered Spider has moved from retail to insurance

Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs

Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?

You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …

Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild

Unlock the power of your data

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app

Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores

Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search

Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal

Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you

Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain

Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus

Enterprise tech dominates zero-day exploits with no signs of slowdown

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law

Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history

Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses

Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official

Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years

Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs

For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections

You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?

Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue'

EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list

Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training

Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts

As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

How NOT to f-up your security incident response

Google teases AI Mode for search, giving Gemini total control over your results

Google Chrome Enterprise to get better warning labels that you're using a company profile

Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet

Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google

Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers

Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims

US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist

Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink

Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules

Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs

Googlers asked if they'd like to bury themselves next to Stadia, Chromecast, DropCam