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Turns out grifting is harder when an entire country can Google your name. TMZ reports that Fyre Festival 2 —the sequel nobody asked for — just got bounced from its second Mexican location like a tourist trying to pay with Trump meme coins. — Read the rest The post Fyre festival scam artist is having...

Google has released patches for 62 vulnerabilities in Android's April 2025 security update, including two zero-days exploited in targeted attacks. [...]

Shenzhen-based home entertainment outfit JMGO announced a new affordable addition to its triple-laser projector line at CES 2025, and now the N1S 4K model brings portable Google TV to folks for a time-limited launch price of under a grand. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech...

Custom fonts provide your apps with a unique identity. Explore modern ways to add custom fonts in a React Native app, including Google Fonts. The post How to add custom fonts in React Native appeared first on LogRocket Blog.

Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Google Play Books are breaking California Law AB 2426. The post B&N, Kobo, and Google Play Books Are Breaking California Law first appeared on Good e-Reader.

Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externali...

"Our plans are always evolving." Google makes major announcement about its future operations: 'There's a huge opportunity here' first appeared on The Cool Down.

I would like to make an amendment to an article I published last month comparing the risks of popular U.S. technology companies with concerns previously reserved for those from China. I wrote: In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg lamented an apparently lost leadership by the U....

Google is launching Pokémon catching game you can play directly in search results, and it doubles as a quiz on how well you know the original 151 Pokémon.

Posted by Elie Burzstein and Marianna Tishchenko, Sec-Gemini team Today, we’re announcing Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model focused on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers. As outlined a year ago, defenders face the daunting task of securing against all cyber threats, while attackers need t...

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 model ID is priced like this: Prompts less than 20...

Posted by Mihai Maruseac, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) In partnership with NVIDIA and HiddenLayer, as part of the Open Source Security Foundation, we are now launching the first stable version of our model signing library. Using digital signatures like those from Sigstore, we allow users...

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions

In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completion...

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit

It's starting to get a little warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, which means you might be looking to the yard for after-dark movie nights. Many portable projectors still need to be plugged in, but Dangbei's Freedo caters for cable-free watching for up to 2.5 hours. Continue Reading Category: Home En...

"What a waste of resources." Google users outraged after new feature gives bizarre responses: 'How do you turn it off?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

As a developer I use Google dozens of times a day for technical documentation. For the last 20 years it has been an incredible resource and I have always been...

DeepMind says AGI could arrive in 2030, and it has some ideas to keep us safe.

Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.

NotebookLM can do the legwork for you now.

It's time you let that old, decrepit tech go and upgrade to the new hotness.

Experience quality sound at an affordable price with $20 off the Pixel Buds A-Series.

I added Google’s Blogger.com to the directory today. I purposely omitted them when I was was first seeding links into the directory here because A. everybody knew about them, B. Google had not been adding on to the service although they keep it working well, C. Google is Big Tech and therefore evil ...

A couple months back, I started freelancing with a new organization, helping people dealing with natural disasters. Getting access to previous work and plans was difficult at first, because I had to request access to items one by one with my personal email address. Soon after, I converted to a

With fresh leadership, Google aims to create new products based on Gemini.

[Just answer the question!] Recently, Pew Research Center got some surprising feedback to one of their surveys: While we get a wide range of feedback on our surveys, we were surprised by a comment we received on an online survey in 2024: “You misspelled YES with FORKS numerous times.” Forks, that wo...

Google’s hybrid entertainment and productivity tablet returns to its lowest-ever price.

"And they said AI is smarter than humans." Google user baffled after AI gives wildly different answers to nearly identical prompts: 'Then explain this' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Away geography is [not] destiny wandering holding a backpack with a device beeping, amidst the traffic even a heartbeat is useless, following an arrow on the Google map desire steps in with mustard twilights of a Northern winter, breathless for an early renewal; poppies are still fabulous, hoopoes m...

We’re living in an age where every tap and every swipe can feed the data collection practices of Big Tech giants. Smartphones have become integral to our daily transactions, highlighting the growing need for secure, privacy-respecting payment solutions. Google Pay might appear convenient, but it com...

Apple only supported RCS on the big three carriers in the first iOS18 releases.

I’m releasing an expanded version of my game Shark Turtle for macOS and Windows. Grab it at itch: gingerbeardman.itch.io/shark-turtle-desktop/ About the icon I couldn’t find the exact licence for Google’s Emoji Kitchen, it’s either SIL as part of the Noto font or CC BY 4.0. But I did find a comment ...

Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Over the past two weeks, first Google and then OpenAI rolled out their multimodal image generation abilities. This is a big deal. Previously, when a Large Language Model AI generated an image, it wasn’t really the LLM doing the work. Instead, the AI would send a te...

​Google has started rolling out a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model for Gmail enterprise users, making it easier to send encrypted emails to any recipient. [...]

A tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy make it harder to publish.

In the past few years, AI has set Silicon Valley on fire. The new book AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence chronicles those blazing high times, telling the stories of the startups, venture capital firms, and legacy tech companies that are ...

Om Malik: What’s particularly ironic is that today’s Google has become exactly what its founders warned against in their 1998 paper: an advertising company whose business model fundamentally conflicts with serving users’ needs. I remember when Sergey Brin and Larry Page first articulated their visio...

Photo Management I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo mana...

Malwarebytes announced they're done with April Fools' pranks because we have enough fake crap on the internet already. The cybersecurity company points out that between AI-generated fakery, Google ad scams, and fraudsters using synthesized voices of loved ones to con families, we're already drowning...

Eid al-Fitr is now a “US Holiday” according to Apple: (Separately, nobody can write precisely precisely?) How about some new phrases, e.g., “As American as Eid al-Fitr”? (Eid al-Fitr is not on the analogous Google Calendar “Holidays in the United States”) Related: Profiles in Corporate Courage (Appl...

New IDC study, co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud, reveals the challenges and opportunities for organizations securing their software supply chains. Today, Canonical and Google Cloud released findings from a joint research project conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC) that sh...

by Scott Nover in Superorganizers Every illustration/Eric Jorgenson. I'm fascinated with how the smartest people in the world get their work done. That's what Superorganizers is about: seeing all of the little habits that make up a great work day and a great life. Artificial intelligence has changed...

This is not the first time Google's AI has produced less-than-accurate results. Frustrated Google user exposes troubling pattern with popular AI assistant: 'Forcing the wrong info in your face' first appeared on The Cool Down.

We talk about Apple getting into trouble with Siri + LLMs, but Google has major problems too. Their search business is going to fall out from under them. Not sure they have the decisiveness to actually redesign their main product.

I’m enjoying Kagi instead of Google, but it’s still not quite right. For a paid search engine, there should be no clutter. If the query is an actual question with an answer, give me a ChatGPT-style UI, free of distractions. If the query is to find a web page, give me 10 blue links and nothing else.

These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it? The company that once r...

Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes In short: Google TV is tasteful, well done, supports live streaming decently if not perfectly, and is a great extension of the Google ecosystem. As someone who does use YouTube TV and YouTube Premium, if I had to stop