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Google Play: März-Update mit neuen Android-Funktionen
Google verteilt mit dem März-Update neue Android-Funktionen über Play-Store und -Dienste. Unter anderem bringt es einen geräteübergreifenden Wi-Fi-Sync.
https://ww…

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/googles-personal-int…

Google's Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users | TechCrunch
Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses.

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

Google erweitert AirDrop-Unterstützung für Pixel-9-Serie – aber nicht für das 9a
Google erweitert die AirDrop-Unterstützung für weitere Pixel-Geräte: In den kommenden Wochen soll die Pixel-9-Serie zur Pixel-10-Reihe dazustoßen.

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax | California | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-sergey-brin-california-billionaire-tax

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Sergey Brin, a Google founder,
has more than doubled his financial contribution to the fight against a proposed wealth tax in California.
New filings with the state show that former Alphabet president Sergey Brin donated $25m to a Super Pac dedicated to blocking the tax
-- on top of $20m he had already given.
Brin is not alone among Google’s top brass in upping his financial stake in the campaign against the ballot proposal.
The company’s former CEO
Eric …

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-serge…

Pixel 10a: Google legt sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf
Google legt mit dem Pixel 10a sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf. Die neue Generation ist mehr Feinschliff als Revolution.
https://www.

Disabling Google's default apps on Android can help reduce your exposure to Google's data mining system somewhat, while their open source alternatives are generally excellent.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-android-without-a-google-account-in-2026/…

google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

@… Google often auto-removes (silently hides from the public) public comments that include links.
It's horribly frustrating.
#Google #YouTube

KI-Modelle für die Medizin: Google veröffentlicht MedGemma 1.5 und MedASR
Google hat mit MedGemma 1.5 die neueste Version seines multimodalen KI-Modells veröffentlicht.
https://www.

Google: "AI WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING!”
Me to my phone: “Hey Google, could you start this app?”
Phone: “What the fuck is an app? Need me to generate ideas for cat costumes instead?”

«Weg von Google und Paypal — EU will digital unabhängiger werden:
Die gängigen digitalen Dienstleistungen kommen in der Regel von US-amerikanischen Big-Tech-Unternehmen wie Alphabet oder Meta. Unter Trump ist das ein Problem»
Ich wohne nicht in der EU und deswegen wird dies wahrscheinlich in meiner Umgebung nicht so schnell von den US-Konzerne lösen. BigTechs haben auch Standorte in der CH.
🔊

Weg von Google und Paypal – Wie die EU digital unabhängiger werden will
Suchmaschinen, online Bezahlen, Cloud-Server: Die meisten digitalen Dienstleistungen in der EU übernehmen Big-Tech-Konzerne aus den USA. Die Abhängigkeit ist ein Problem.

Have you written any Anti-ICE Posts on Threads, Facebook or YouTube?
Meta & Google gave your name up to Trump, Kristi Noem & DHS. And Amazon is now turning over Ring camera footage.
☑️ Big Tech Confirms DHS Subpoenas: Meta and Google Users Targeted Over Anti-ICE Posts

Big Tech Confirms DHS Subpoenas: Meta and Google Users Targeted Over Anti-ICE Posts
Major tech firms acknowledged they have complied with DHS subpoenas aiming to ID anti-ICE protestors

Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the "latest AI breakthroughs and updates" in Gemini, Android, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/google-io-2026-date/

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
Following the interactive puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20...

"Chef - wir brauchen noch einen Namen für unsere Firma"
"Say no more"
https://www.google.com/maps/…

All these people who claim they can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or

Sources: former Google executive Matt Brittin is expected to be named the BBC's next director general as soon as next week; Brittin spent 18 years at Google (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-matt-brittin-director-general-1236759459/…

BBC Close To Hiring Ex-Google Chief Matt Brittin As Next Director General
The BBC is edging closer to appointing Matt Brittin, Google's former EMEA president, as its next director general. Tim Davie steps down next month.

from my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…

Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, sustainable smartphone
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.

Trying out Jules, a coding agent from Google that is similar to Claude Code. But it's all hosted: you use a web UI to talk to it, it checks out code from GitHub and runs it in containers. And it operates asynchronously, you give it tasks and it comes back 5-15 minutes later with work done. I like it quite a bit, but there's a question whether the Gemini models are as good for coding as Claude.

Man kann den perfekten Artikel schreiben und trotzdem nicht ranken. Wenn die Suchintention nicht passt, hat man verloren. 🎯
"Laptop kaufen" − Google zeigt Shops und Produktseiten.
"Laptop Test 2026" − Google zeigt Vergleiche und Reviews.
Wer für "Laptop kaufen" einen Blogartikel schreibt, konkurriert gegen Amazon und MediaMarkt. Mit einem Blogpost. Klappt nicht.
Vor dem Schreiben immer googeln was aktuell rankt. Die SERPs verraten das Form…

Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Family poses in Barton Hall Bleachers at February Flash Dash last Sunday
More photos: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMBGAi-u7N4UdfUvnoMIXsgK6BoI3SqxgrvUe11nlK4VkACELJODtTBVeig…

Idea: new business listings site called "uck", that exists solely to fill the space between the Facebook logo (f) and the Linked In logo (in) and the Google logo (g) on corporate websites.

Das haben alle mitgekriegt?
Google AI Center Berlin eröffnet
https://blog.google/intl/de-de/unternehmen/inside-google/google-ai-center-berlin-eroeffnung/
„Gemeinsam mit Dr. Karsten Wildberger, Bundesminister für Digitalisieru…

91 % richtige KI-Antworten bei Google klingen solide.
Bis man merkt:
➡️ Millionen falsche Antworten pro Stunde
Aber egal – Hauptsache schnell die KI-Zusammenfassung scannen und weiter.
👉 Ingrid Brodnig
#KI #Google

TranslateGemma: Google gibt KI-Modell für Übersetzung frei
Googles frei verfügbares KI-Modell Gemma ist jetzt als TranslateGemma spezialisiert auf die Übersetzung von 55 Sprachen.
https://www.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE https://www.theverge.com/news/911789/eff-google-giving-data-ice-california-new-york

Fürs Pixel 11? Google arbeitet an besserer Gesichtsentsperrung wie bei iPhones
Googles Pixel-Smartphones sollen künftig eine bessere Gesichtsentsperrung erhalten, die denen des iPhone ähnelt – und auch bei Dunkelheit funktioniert.

Google Says Developer Verification Makes Android Safer. Critics Say It Just Makes Android More Closed
https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/
“Under the new rules, F-Droid has no workable path forward. Compelling volunteer contributors to register t…

Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/goog

Google is now targeting bad ads over bad actors | TechCrunch
Google blocked 8.3 billion ads in 2025 but suspended fewer advertisers.

from my link log —
SFTPGo: highly configurable SQL-backed SFTP server.
https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
saved 2019-07-26 https://dotat.at/:/NCC26.htm…

GitHub - drakkan/sftpgo: Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob
Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob - drakkan/sftpgo

Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …

Google previews WebMCP, a new protocol for AI agent interactions
Google's WebMCP protocol lets AI agents execute structured actions on websites via browser APIs. Is this the next frontier of technical SEO?

Es gibt im SEO eine geheime Sprache und sie ermöglicht die direkte Kommunikation mit Google. 🤫
Strukturierte Daten oft auch Schema genannt, sind Daten die in einer bestimmten Weise für Suchmaschinen auf der Website hinterlegt und ausgelesen werden können. 🗃️
Diese Daten liefern Informationen über:
®️ Marken
📦 Produkte
🎟️ Events
🎙️ Podcasts
🎧 Musik
📚 Bücher
Das ist faktisch ein direkter Kanal zwischen deiner Seite und Google! 🤯

Play-Systemupdate: Android synchronisiert optional Downloads in Google Drive
Google liefert mit dem Februar-Update neue Android-Funktionen über Play-Store und -Dienste. Unter anderem können Downloads in Google Drive gesichert werden.

«Nie wieder denselben Prompt tippen — Google #Chrome speichert deine KI-#Workflow's als Skills:
Mit Google Skills kannst du deine wichtigsten Prompts als #Skills speichern und mit

Nie wieder denselben Prompt tippen: Google Chrome speichert deine KI-Workflows als Skills | t3n
Mit Google Skills kannst du deine wichtigsten Prompts als Skills speichern und mit One-Click-Workflows direkt wieder nutzen. Außerdem liefert Google eine Bibliothek mit ready-made Prompts für gängige Aufgaben, die du selbst anpassen kannst. Wenn du bei Gemini immer wieder den gleichen Prompt eingibst oder im Copy-Paste-Verfahren einsetzt, kannst du diesen künftig als Go-to Skill bei […]

Google expands Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold, after launching it for Pixel 10 in November 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/quick-share-airdrop-pixel-9/

Google expands Quick Share’s AirDrop support to Pixel 9 
After introducing on the Pixel 10 last year, Google is expanding Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL. 

Termijncontracten voor Brent Crude Oil Last Day Financial Futures (BZW00): koersen en nieuws - Google Finance
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BZW00:NYMEX
Oil price looks interesting...

Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/goog

Google is now targeting bad ads over bad actors | TechCrunch
Google blocked 8.3 billion ads in 2025 but suspended fewer advertisers.

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

Google Photos & Nano Banana 2: KI-Bilder mit nahestehenden Personen
Google bringt seinen Photos-Dienst und das KI-Modell Nano Banana 2 näher zusammen, damit Nutzer einfacher Bilder mit nahestehenden Personen generieren können.

Google und Gucci arbeiten an Smart Glasses der Luxusklasse
Der französische Luxuskonzern Kering arbeitet mit Google an Smart Glasses der Marke Gucci. Der Marktführer Meta könnte mit einer Prada-Brille kontern.
ht…

Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

Chip testing latest chokepoint as Nvidia, Google designs grow more complex
Quality control takes center stage in advanced AI chipmaking and packaging

«#Protest gegen US-Regierung — Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken:
Das Ministerium hat #Google, #Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschi…

Protest gegen US-Regierung: Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken
Das Ministerium hat Google, Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschickt, um Daten von Nutzern zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde ICE kritisieren. Die Konzerne kamen einigen Anfragen nach.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Deine Website sieht im Browser perfekt aus?
Google sieht sie vielleicht völlig anders. 👀
Wer Content per JavaScript nachlädt (React, Vue, Angular), riskiert dass Google den Inhalt nicht sieht. Der Bot rendert zwar JS, aber zeitversetzt und mit begrenztem Crawl-Budget. Nicht jede Seite bekommt einen zweiten Durchgang.
Schneller Test: Rechtsklick − Seitenquelltext. Wenn da kein Text steht, sieht Google ihn auch nicht. SSR oder Pre-Rendering löst das zuverlässig. 🛠️

Android 13: Google hat Support für Betriebssystem eingestellt
Android 13 ist raus. Google hat schon Anfang März den Support für die im Jahr 2022 veröffentlichte OS-Version eingestellt.
https://www.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

Google-Suche unter Windows: Neue Google-App jetzt auch in Deutschland verfügbar
Auch in Deutschland kann man seine Windows-PCs nun mit der neuen Google-App durchstöbern. Die App bringt außerdem KI-Funktionen über Gemini auf den Desktop.

«Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation:
[…] Gemini massiv von Angreifern attackiert, die das Modell durch sogenannte Destillation kopieren wollten. Eine Kampagne habe Gemini über 100.000 Mal mit Anfragen bombardiert, berichtet NBC News. Google nennt das Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums. […]»
Zwei der Datenkonzerne, die vom Datendiebstahl leben, beklagen dass sie selber Opfer sind?!??
🤔

Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation
Google und OpenAI beklagen sich über Ideenklau; ausgerechnet die Unternehmen, die selbst mit riesigen Mengen fremder Daten trainiert haben. Doch hinter den Vorwürfen steckt ein ernstes Problem: Angreifer versuchen systematisch, Milliarden-Dollar-Modelle zu kopieren, ohne selbst zu investieren.

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/google-now-lets-you-explore…

Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode | TechCrunch
Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the webpage side-by-side with AI Mode.

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…

Google’s Gemini Sees Skyrocketing Business Sales
Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s ...

Google-Play-Update: Neue Funktionen für Android und Google Wallet
Google verteilt neue Funktionen für Android-Geräte über die Play-Dienste. Das April-Update bringt ein überarbeitetes Wallet-Design und mehr.

Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-sweetens-deal-cloud-providers

How Anthropic Sweetens the Deal for Its Cloud Providers
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startup’s most optimistic recent forecasts. That’s not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue ...

Google plans to replace Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max for Search, an AI tool that uses advertiser context, landing pages, and keywords, for all advertisers (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/4…

Google Replacing Dynamic Search Ads With 'AI Max'
Google announced Wednesday that it will phase out Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), and upgrade all advertisers to AI Max for Search powered by artificial intelligence.

EU-Vorschlag: Google soll Such- und Gemini-Daten rausrücken
Die Europäische Kommission hat Google Vorschläge übersandt, wie das Suchangebot wettbewerbsrechtskompatibler werden soll.
https://www.

Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 (Lauren Rosenthal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Android Canary: Google testet überarbeitetes Kontextmenü für App-Icons
In der aktuellen Android-Canary-Version testet Google ein kompakteres, zweigeteiltes Kontextmenü für App-Icons sowie eine neue Benachrichtigungsanzeige.

google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Push to Cleanse His Past Online
After he left jail in 2009, Mr. Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.

Android: Sideloading unverifizierter Apps wird aufwändiger
Android-Apps können offenbar auch ohne Entwickler-Verifizierung bei Google per Sideload installiert werden. Der Ablauf soll aber aufwändiger werden als bisher.

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google and Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal as Company Rebuilds Military Ties
Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s ...

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI "wrappers" (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/goog…

Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are 'AI wrappers' | TechCrunch
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.

Wachablösung: Meta wird bei Einnahmen aus Onlinewerbung wohl Google überholen
Die Hälfte aller Ausgaben für Onlinewerbung gehen an Meta und Google. Laut einer Analyse wird der Facebook-Konzern in diesem Jahr aber an Google vorbeiziehen.

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

Alternativer App-Store: Aptoide reicht Kartellklage gegen Google in den USA ein
Der alternative Android-App-Store Aptoide hat in den USA Klage gegen Google eingereicht. Dem Konzern wird vorgeworfen, den App-Markt zu monopolisieren.

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/google-brings-its-gemi…

Google brings its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature to India | TechCrunch
The feature lets users connect Google accounts like Gmail and Photos to get personalized answers

Sources: Google is in talks with Envicool and other Chinese companies about buying data center liquid cooling equipment, amid a tight supply of such parts (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/google-tal…

„Irreführende Praxis“: Google bestraft „Back-Button-Hijacking“ als Spam
Google geht künftig gegen Webseiten vor, die den Zurück-Button des Browsers manipulieren. Ab Mitte Juni drohen Betreibern manuelle Spam-Maßnahmen.

Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, and Match sign a voluntary pledge to share threat intelligence on scammers abusing their services (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/tech-companies-scam-accord-google-meta-amazon…

Exclusive: Big Tech companies band together to fight global scams
Scammers have only become more organized and impactful in recent years, forcing tech companies to rethink their strategies for protecting their users.

Google: Beta der Telefon-App ermöglicht Anrufaufnahmen
Google ermöglicht das Aufzeichnen von Anrufen direkt in der Telefon-App. Die Funktion kann derzeit nur in der Betaversion der App ausprobiert werden.
https://www…

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/

Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhanced Embodied Reasoning
Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 upgrades spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding, unlocking new capabilities like instrument reading for autonomous robots.

Google Pixel: März-Update führt bei einigen Geräten zu Bootloops
Einige Pixel-Nutzer berichten nach dem März-Update von Bootloops. Google hat das Problem als kritisch eingestuft, eine Lösung steht jedoch noch aus.

Android: Google plant „Tap to Share“ für schnellen Datenaustausch
Google arbeitet an einer Funktion, um Dateien und mehr zwischen Android-Geräten durch Aneinanderhalten zu teilen – ähnlich wie Apples NameDrop.

Groundsource: Google nutzt KI für bessere Flutvorhersagen
Google will mit dem Projekt Groundsource die Vorhersage von Überschwemmungen verbessern. Dazu wertet eine KI Nachrichtenartikel in über 80 Sprachen aus.
ht…

Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/google-sells-partial-s…

Google sells partial stake in fiber business, becomes minority owner of new venture
Google said its GFiber unit is combing with Astound Broadband and forming a independent fiber provider.

Android 17: Google geht strenger gegen Missbrauch von Barrierefreiheits-API vor
Google geht im anstehenden Update auf Android 17 strenger gegen Apps vor, die Barrierefreiheitsdienste missbrauchen. Einige Apps könnten damit nutzlos werden.

Google DeepMind appoints Jasjeet Sekhon, Bridgewater's chief scientist and head of AI, as chief strategy officer; Sekhon helped build Bridgewater's AIA Labs (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

Google unveils the $499 Pixel 10A, offering the same Tensor G4 chip as the 9A, 8GB of RAM, and an 11% brighter display, in 128GB and 256GB, shipping March 4 (Todd Haselton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/880400/pixel-10a-hands-on-a-little-too-…

Researchers from Google, iVerify, and Lookout discover DarkSword, a hacking tool used by Russian state-sponsored groups to target iOS 18 via Ukrainian websites (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions…

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.

Google will Android durch Optimierungen am Kernel schneller machen
Google will Android durch Optimierungen am Kernel schneller und effizienter machen. Nutzer sollen damit reaktionsschnellere Geräte mit mehr Laufzeit erhalten.

Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more (Latent.Space)
https://www.latent.space/p/jeffdean

Android 17 Beta 1: Google verschiebt Release kurzfristig, Details bekannt
Google wollte am Mittwoch eigentlich die erste Beta von Android 17 freigeben, hat aber dann doch einen Rückzieher gemacht. Was drinsteckt, ist dennoch bekannt.

Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dffe72d0-4064-4412-8ebc-50198a30d40e
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Figma's stock closed down ~8% on March 18 after Google updated its Stitch AI coding tool for UI design; FIG is down ~80% since the company's IPO in August 2025 (John Wang/@j0hnwang)
https://x.com/j0hnwang/status/2034425352366473223

John Wang (@j0hnwang) on X
Figma tanked 8% today on this news Now down 80% from IPO in Aug 2025

Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-again-and-ai-may-…

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why | TechCrunch
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50 presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-google-chrome-ai-powered-skills/

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.

Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/14/google-app-desktop-windows/

‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows
After testing got underway in September, the  “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”

The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/

Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
: Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling

Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator "automatically reflect" users' tastes (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/16/gemini-photos-personal-intelligence/

Gemini app using Personal Intelligence, Photos for tailored Nano Banana generation
With the international expansion underway, Gemini is now bringing together Personal Intelligence, Google Photos, and Nano Banana 2.

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/indias-proposal-p…

Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/google-completes-32b-acquisition-of-wiz…

Google wraps up $32B acquisition of cloud security giant Wiz | TechCrunch
Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google's biggest acquisition in its history.