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In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-r…

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Fri

Gmail: Google kündigt vereinfachte Abo-Verwaltung an
Google startet in Gmail eine zentrale Abo-Verwaltung, um Newsletter einfacher zu verwalten und abzubestellen.
https://www.heise.de/news…

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-r…

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Fri

»Digitale Souveränität — Diese Alternativen zu #Google Docs und Microsoft 365 müsst ihr kennen:
Egal ob Google #Docs oder #Microsoft 365 - Das klassische

Digitale Souveränität: Diese Alternativen zu Google Docs und Microsoft 365 müsst ihr kennen | t3n
Egal ob Google Docs oder Microsoft 365: Das klassische Office-Paket hat längst seinen Weg ins Web gefunden. Das bedeutet aber auch immer Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen Techkonzernen. Doch es gibt Alternativen. Einfach auf einen Link klicken und direkt das Dokument, die Präsentation oder Tabelle einer:eines Kolleg:in bearbeiten: Als Google vor fast 20 Jahren erstmals eigene Office-Dienste […]

Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: nice display and most AI features run on device, but cameras are a step down from other Pro Pixels, Tensor G5 shows small gains (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/google-pixel…

Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: The ultimate Google phone
Google delivers another phone that is slightly better than its predecessor—is that enough?

Pixel Watch 2 und 3: Google verteilt großes Update auf Wear OS 6
Google hat damit begonnen, das Update auf WearOS-6 für die Pixel Watch 2 und 3 zu verteilen.  Damit landet unter anderem Material 3 Expressive am Handgelenk.

Why can’t I view this through AMP?
“Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’”
https://www.theverge.com/news/773928/google-open-web-rapid-decline

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
Google has admitted that the “open web is already in rapid decline,” despite maintaining that the online ecosystem is “thriving.”

You can find The vOICe for Android on Google Play by searching for "seeingwithsound" or "sensory substitution" (including the double quotes!), or head directly to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe "sensory substitution" for…

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play
Augmented Reality for the Blind: See with your Ears!

Story links:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/in-court-filing-google-concedes-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline/

https://github.com/google/agi

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 is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/google-tests-revam…

Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed | TechCrunch
Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news.

“Google Meet Hit by Monday Outage”
People use Google Meet?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/meeting-cancelled-google-meet-hit-by-monday-outage

Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06018

Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023
Search engines like Google have become major sources of information for voters during election campaigns. To assess potential biases across candidates' gender and partisan identities in the algorithmic curation of candidate information, we conducted a large-scale algorithm audit analyzing Google's selection and ranking of information about candidates for the 2023 Swiss Federal Elections, three and one week before the election day. Results indicate that text searches prioritize media sources in …

Oh, I had missed that Google withdrew its RCS message services from multiple regions (relying on the phone companies to stand up RCS themselves) which seems... sudden?
(afaik iOS 26 betas don't yet support MLS encryption for RCS)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google…

Lost RCS support in Google Messages since last month? You're not alone
Reports online suggest that RCS support vanished from Google Messages in multiple countries, with no fix in sight.

Vergeten ontdekking levert straks 200 ton waterstof per dag: industrie kijkt ineens wél op - TW.nl
https://share.google/ltkHnBeg2JgwKbIWT

#Google's #CI is checking for gen #AI suspects:

Analysis: Google Search favored global news brands like CNN and Al Jazeera over Manchester Evening News coverage, following an attack on a Manchester synagogue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-manchester-visibility-s/

Google appears to prioritise global newsbrands over local ones for breaking news events
Global newsbrands were being surfaced more highly in Google than the biggest local news operation in Manchester for synagogue attack story.

Google's New AI Health Tool: Opt in or Risk Losing Benefits - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-health-tool-opt-in-risk-losing-benefits-2025-10

Wolf admits sheep population is in ‘rapid decline’. https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-1AhrCxHAS1i_bbcq3SK6Hw:a:43591897-/0

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
The statement contradicts Google’s recent narrative about the health of the online ecosystem. For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last …

Google and Cisco, have disclosed separate data breaches stemming from voice phishing (vishing) attacks that compromised customer information stored in cloud-based CRM systems.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/google-and-ci…

Google and Cisco confirm data breaches linked to vishing attacks
Google and Cisco, have disclosed separate data breaches stemming from voice phishing (vishing) attacks that compromised customer information stored in cloud-based CRM systems.

I love how smart these AI technologies are. They understand that "bigger" for cities can be ambiguous, refer to either the population or the area. It's also great that it's showing the sources in the upper corner, and displaying the basic facts.
Small minus on consistency and correctness, but other than that, really a great answer.
#google

All hail Epic Games! Looking forward to not being forced to use Google Play to purchase audio books, movies, ebooks & apps on Android.
✅ The Supreme Court didn’t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/793610/googl

The Supreme Court didn’t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking
The US Supreme Court has denied Google’s request for a partial stay in Epic v. Google, meaning the permanent injunction is still in effect and coming up fast.

Uff… Das ist ne legit mail. Wie sehr möchten Sie nach Phishing klingen? Google: Ja.

#Google ist nicht mehr „dein Freund“, sondern Wettbewerber – dank KI zieht sich die Suchmaschine die besten Inhalte schlicht selbst. Für Publisher heißt das: Augen auf, Gesicht zeigen und Inhalte liefern, die KI nicht kopieren kann. Sonst bleibt der Traffic auf der Strecke.
Google ist jetzt dein schärfster Konkurrent | Jan Tißler | UPLOAD Magazin

#Google Docs: "These actions are unavailable using the Edit menus, but you can still use: Ctrl C for copy, Ctrl X for cut, Ctrl V for paste."
Yeah, sure, but I clicked "paste without formatting".
(Yeah, figured out it's Ctrl Shift V but still Google sucks.)

Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…

Google TV’s uncertain future
Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

Me: searches "Google classroom report spam"
support.google.com search result:
> Welcome to the Google Classroom Help Community.

> Unfortunately, just as we can't control people who abuse email accounts by sending spam, we can't control those who create Google Classrooms for spam purposes.
> Simply ignore the emails and do not join the classroom.

Google says hackers stole its customers’ data in a breach of its Salesforce database
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-says-hackers-stole-its-customers-data-in-a-breach-of-its-salesforce-database/

Google says hackers stole its customers' data by breaching its Salesforce database | TechCrunch
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.

Things that Google Assistant (opted out of AI) has added to our grocery list recently:
★ hi (instead of hydrocortisone cream)
★ lunch (instead of lunch meat)
★ aqua 4 (instead of aquaphor)
All things that have been easily understood for ten years by Google Assistant but now, for mysterious reasons, is no longer working consistently

Mittwoch: AI Mode von Google auf Deutsch, Dänemarks Social-Media-Verbot unter 15
AI Mode in Deutschland Mindestalter sozialer Netze Werbespot-Lautstärke beim Streaming Kompostierbare Leiterplatten Open Source im Norden Bit-Rauschen

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-dat…

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

So, in a group I'm in, someone shared a campaign call calling on #Google to stop supporting the #Israel government and end its complicity in war crimes in #Gaza
The platform they're using to share these …

Telefony wracają już do naszego widza – każdy z nich został wyposażony w możliwie najnowszą wersję LineageOS, oczywiście bez usług Google 😉
Jeśli chcesz uwolnić swój smartfon od Google, napisz do nas na naszym forum https://forum.internet-czas-dzialac.pl/ lub na naszego maila k…

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

Google Pixel Watch 4 review: a significant leap in Google's smartwatch lineup with a nice domed display, but Gemini is unreliable, and GPS maps are still wonky (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/795383/google-pixel-…

The Google Pixel Watch 4 is the Android watch to beat
The $349.99 Google Pixel Watch 4 adds several smart updates that add up to the best Android smartwatch you can buy.

This is bizarre - I made a typo and accidentally ran a #Google search for a comma. Not the word, the punctuation mark.
And yet, somehow, Google thinks that is:
1. A valid enough search to be showing a bazillion results
2. A search that needs short-form vertical videos at the top from a bunch of white women (who are they? Why them? What in the world is relevant to a singular punctuation mark that makes them pull up these videos?)
3. A search with enough inferred intent to show me a whole Q&A interface?
I know we complain about the state of #search online a lot these days and I've been part of the #SEO industry for years but something like this is so blatantly ridiculous it's hard not to stop and wonder.... what the actual fuck?

> New partnership sees Google Cloud agree to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyberattack.
"ball and chain" being a government code term for Windows?

New Google partnership will help rid taxpayer of ‘ball and chain’ legacy tech and aim to upskill 100,000 civil servants in tech and AI
New partnership with Google Cloud will help modernise outdated government IT, upskill 100,000 civil servants in digital and AI by 2030, and secure better tech deals for the taxpayer.

UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/peter-kyle-addresses-big-tech-criticisms

Peter Kyle addresses Big Tech criticisms at Google Cloud London
UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle addressed his critics head-on at Google Cloud London today.

Das Imperium schlägt zurück: #Google behauptet, die „AI Overviews“ kurbeln Klicks an, während Verlage von dramatischen Traffic-Einbrüchen berichten.Der Konflikt vor der EU zeigt: Wer die Antwort stiehlt, gefährdet die Vielfalt im Netz. Mehr KI heißt nicht automatisch mehr Gerechtigkeit. #heise
Go…

Googles KI-Suche: Berichte über Traffic-Einbruch wegen "fehlerhafter Methoden"
Google verteidigt seine KI-Suche gegen Kritik. Berichte über massive Traffic-Verluste für Publisher basierten auf "fehlerhaften Methoden".

Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…

Google TV’s uncertain future
Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-on-ecd

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy
What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

Google: KI-Bug-Bounty-Programm zahlt bis zu 30.000 US-Dollar pro Fehler
Google führt ein Bug-Bounty-Programm für KI-Anwendungen ein. Entdecker schwerwiegender Fehler in Gemini oder der KI-Suche erhalten Belohnungen.

»Websuche – Ecosia und Qwant starten europäischen Suchindex:
Bislang waren Suchmaschinenanbieter meist auf die Indizes von Google oder Microsoft angewiesen. Nun gibt es eine europäische Alternative.«
Ich bin weder von der einen noch der anderen Suchmaschinen überzeugt um sie zu nutzen. Doch eine grundlegende Web Alternative ist wichtig um unabhängig im Internet zu sein.
🔎

Websuche: Ecosia und Qwant starten europäischen Suchindex - Golem.de
Bislang waren Suchmaschinenanbieter meist auf die Indizes von Google oder Microsoft angewiesen. Nun gibt es eine europäische Alternative.

We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…

Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw
Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini, OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts, Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system, Deibert warns of tech fascism, NIST withheld AI report due to Trump fears, Air France and KLM hit by cyberattacks, much more

How Australian men's lifestyle publisher Man of Many is countering a decline in Google referral traffic, through a registration wall, podcasts, and newsletters (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How lifestyle brand Man of Many has changed to counter falling Google traffic
Man of Many, an Australian digital lifestyle brand, has adopted a new 2.0 strategy involving a sign-in system and seen "record growth".

Google updates a Help Center document to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/773496/google-gemini-usage-limits

Google finally details Gemini usage limits
Google finally lets people know how many free Gemini Pro prompts they get a day.

Schlappe vorm Supreme Court: Google muss Änderungen am Play Store vorbereiten
Vor zwei Jahren wurde Google zu umfangreichen Änderungen am Play Store von Android verpflichtet. Im Versuch, das zu verhindern, gab es nun wieder eine Schlappe.

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 announces an AI Plus subscription tier for emerging markets, offering "more access to Gemini 2.5 Pro" and tools like Flow, starting with Indonesia (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/09/google-ai-plus-launched/

Google AI Plus with Gemini 2.5 Pro, 200 GB storage announced for emerging markets 
Google today announced “Google AI Plus” as a new subscription tier “designed to empower people in emerging markets...

Google adds new AI and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/702291/android-google-a…

Android’s Circle to Search feature gets AI and gaming upgrades
Google is adding AI Mode to Android’s Circle to Search tool and expanding Gemini Live support for Samsung devices.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach Google-Milliardenstrafe: Neue US-Zölle angedroht
https:…

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_

PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Google Pixel Buds 2a review: ANC is a welcome addition and sound is detailed and punchy, but there's still no wireless charging and voice performance suffers (Billy Steele/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/

Google Pixel Buds 2a review: Affordable earbuds that are better with ANC
Google’s most affordable Pixel Buds are an even more compelling option with the addition of active noise cancellation (ANC).

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession." (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-loathi…

Gemini users say its sharing self-loathing comments: 'I am a failure'
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

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

Googles AI Mode kommt nach Deutschland
In der Google-Suche gibt es künftig den AI Mode zur Auswahl. Er ist deutlich umfassender als die KI-Übersichten oder Linklisten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Googles-…

The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/google-ad-tech-arguments.html

U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

Android 16: Juli-Update enthält zwei Pixel-Fixes – und das Pflichtupdate fürs 6a
Google veröffentlicht den Juli-Patch für Android 16. Das Update für Pixel-Geräte ist winzig, bringt aber unter anderem die Akkureduzierung für das Pixel 6a. 

Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-computer-use-model/

Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Today we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model via the API, which outperforms leading alternatives at browser and mobile tasks.

Nutzerbeschwerden: Pixel 10 und Galaxy Watch 8 lassen sich nicht koppeln
Googles Pixel 10 scheint Probleme bei der Kopplung mit Samsungs Smartwatch Galaxy Watch 8 zu haben. Google bestätigt und verspricht Abhilfe.

Google announces Veo updates: support for vertical video and 1080p, lower pricing, and general availability of Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in the Gemini API (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/veo-3-and-veo-3-…

Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast – new pricing, new configurations and better resolution- Google Developers Blog
Today, we’re launching three big Veo updates: support for vertical format outputs (9:16 aspect ratio...

Für mehr Transparenz: Android erhält neue Einstellungsseite "Systemdienste"
Android erhält eine neue Einstellungsseite für Systemdienste, mit der Nutzer installierte Google-Dienste einsehen und verwalten können.

In a new ad campaign, TelevisaUnivision says Google plans to move Univision from YouTube TV's basic bundle to a Spanish-language package that costs extra (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/televisaunivision-youtube-carriage-contract

Scoop: TelevisaUnivision wages war with YouTube
TelevisaUnivision says YouTube's efforts make Google look "evil."

Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K downloads before Google removed it (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/google-cloud-b…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Jetzt auch Google: Konzern geht gegen ICE-Tracking-Apps vor
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says the division has $106B in unfulfilled customer contract commitments, with an expected revenue of $58B by 2027 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/google-cloud-…

Google öffnet NotebookLM für jüngere Nutzer
Google öffnet sein KI-Recherchetool NotebookLM für jüngere Nutzer ab 16 Jahren. Es soll Schülern beim Lernen helfen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google…

Jetzt auch Google: Konzern geht gegen ICE-Tracking-Apps vor
Mehrere Smartphone-Apps verraten Aufenthaltsorte von Beamten der US-Ausländerbehörde. Nach Apple geht jetzt auch Google dagegen vor.
https://www.…

The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/google-ad-tech-arguments.html

U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

Google begins rolling out Gemini for Wear OS, replacing Assistant, "over the coming weeks" to Wear OS 4 on the Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Xiaomi, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/09/gemini-wear-os/

Gemini for Wear OS rolling out to Pixel Watch, Samsung, and more
After announcing in May at The Android Show: I/O Edition, Google is now rolling out Gemini for Wear OS to the Pixel Watch...

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
EU-Kommission verhängt 2,95 Milliarden Euro Bußgeld gegen Google

Google rudert zurück: Manche Links mit URL-Shortener goo.gl bleiben funktional
Eigentlich sollte goo.gl Ende August komplett abgeschaltet werden. Doch nun kommt die Kehrtwende. Einige Kurzlinks werden laut Google weiterhin funktionieren.

OpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive conduct by "entrenched companies" in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI Warns EU Antitrust Watchdogs of Big Tech’s Data Dominance
OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

Kritiker sehen Google-Urteil als nicht ausreichend und haben Datenschutzbedenken
Trotz Monopolstellung kam Google im Kartellprozess mit Auflagen davon. Kritiker bezeichnen das Urteil als Fehlschlag und rufen nach strengeren Gesetzen.

Irreführung beim Datenschutz: Google soll 425 Millionen US-Dollar bezahlen
Google sammelt Daten über User, auch wenn die Aufzeichnung von App-Aktivitäten explizit ausgeschaltet wurde. Dafür wird nun eine Strafe fällig.

Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that autonomously detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code, leveraging Gemini Deep Think models (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/06/go

Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that autonomously patches software vulnerabilities - SiliconANGLE
Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that autonomously patches software vulnerabilities - SiliconANGLE

Datenschutz: Rekordstrafen gegen Google & Shein wegen Cookies und Inbox-Werbung
Google muss in Frankreich 325 Millionen, der Onlinehändler Shein 150 Millionen Euro zahlen. Beide haben keine ausreichende Zustimmung für Cookies eingeholt.

Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invites to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/…

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

#heiseshow: Google-Chrome-Urteil, GPS-Störungen, KI-Überwachung
In der #heiseshow: Google darf Chrome und Android behalten, GPS-Sabotage nimmt zu und KI-Überwachung an öffentlichen Plätzen wird diskutiert.

The ruling that allows Google to continue paying for traffic acquisition is a huge win for Apple and for Mozilla, which relies heavily on payments from Google (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/google-apple-and-mozilla-win-in-the-antitrust-case-…

Google, Apple, and Mozilla Win in the Antitrust Case Google Lost
Chrome stays. Payments stay. Exclusive placement goes. Some Search data goes.

Android 16: Google verteilt Pixel-Update mit Material 3 Expressive
Google verteilt das erste Android-16-Update. Damit erhalten Pixel 6 und aktueller das neue Material-3-Expressive-Design.
https://www.

Google DeepMind and LIGO researchers detail Deep Loop Shaping, an AI tool that they say improves the observatory's ability to track gravitational waves (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ligo-google-ai-gravitational-waves/

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google rudert zurück: Manche Links mit URL-Shortener goo.gl bleiben funktional

Google now lets US-based Google Photos users turn static images into silent four-second videos using its Veo 3 model (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/771630/google-photos-veo3-video-animate-ca…

Google Photos now lets you animate your camera roll with Veo 3 for free
Google Photos now offers Veo 3 for turning images into short videos.

heise | Qwen-Image-Edit: Bilder mit KI bearbeiten – ohne Google und Beschränkungen
Qwen-Image-Edit bearbeitet Bilder lokal und kostenlos. Wir zeigen, wie Sie mit der KI Objekte austauschen, Stile verändern oder Personen kombinieren.

Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91380890/google-unveils-n…

Exclusive: Google Gemini adds AI tutoring, heating up the fight for student users
The new tool, and a $1 billion initiative to improve AI education for college-age Americans, will compete against OpenAI’s recently added ChatGPT Study mode.

EU-Kommission verhängt 2,95 Milliarden Euro Bußgeld gegen Google
Die Alphabet-Tochter soll gegen europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht verstoßen haben. Die Aufsichtsbehörde hat dem Unternehmen zudem eine Frist gesetzt.

Google says total organic click volume from Search to websites has been "relatively stable" YoY and it's sending "slightly more quality clicks" than a year ago (Liz Reid/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/search/ai-sear…

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks
We continue to send billions of clicks to the web every day and are committed to prioritizing the web in our AI experiences in Search.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irreführung beim Datenschutz: Google soll 425 Millionen US-Dollar bezahlen

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/googles-ai-coding-agent-jules-is-now…

Google's AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta | TechCrunch
Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks.

Googles KI-Suche: Berichte über Traffic-Einbruch wegen "fehlerhafter Methoden"
Google verteidigt seine KI-Suche gegen Kritik. Berichte über massive Traffic-Verluste für Publisher basierten auf "fehlerhaften Methoden".

After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration "will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand" (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/trump-thre

Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple
President Donald Trump threatened to launch a trade investigation to "nullify" Europe's fines against Google and other U.S. tech firms.

Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-…

How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

The US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/technology/google-ruling-antitrust.html…

Google Search Monopoly Ruling Sends Signal for Big-Tech Antitrust Cases
A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.