2026-02-02 07:52:00
Google verschiebt Google-Kontopflicht für Fitbit-Nutzer erneut
Google verschiebt die Google-Kontopflicht für Fitbit-Nutzer erneut – dieses Mal nur um ein paar Monate. Die neue Frist endet am 19. Mai 2026.
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Google verschiebt Google-Kontopflicht für Fitbit-Nutzer erneut
Google verschiebt die Google-Kontopflicht für Fitbit-Nutzer erneut – dieses Mal nur um ein paar Monate. Die neue Frist endet am 19. Mai 2026.
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Google, with its structural advantages, is a threat for both OpenAI and Nvidia; OpenAI has a real moat with 800M ChatGPT users, but needs an advertising model (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/
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_
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The case of the missing DNS packets.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-support-engineer-solves-a-tough-dns-case
saved 2020-05-13
Record Club now has an Android app! HELL yes: #RecordClub
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Große Tech-Konzerne wie #Google, #Meta oder #Microsoft machen den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Pflicht.
KI-Kompetenz fließt in Bewerbungen, Leis…
Reminder that Google can nuke your entire account at any time for any infraction, real or hallucinated, on any platform in their portfolio. Use https://takeout.google.com and always have a backup plan for what happens to all the other website accounts bound to your Gmail address.
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
DKK 60 million on Microsoft and Google software licences *every year* paid Danish state schools. And imagine how much government IT is paying on top.
It's time to start calling it the #MicrosoftTax
HT @…
https://ing.dk/artikel/her-er-regnestykket-saa-meget-koster-det-smide-google-og-microsoft-ud-af-folkeskolen
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromeca…
Google teases 'exciting' Android XR updates about glasses, headsets next week #AR/#XR smart glasses.
The vOICe for An…
"Bei #apotheken-umschau.de merken wir heute ungefähr ein Drittel Trafficschwund und das liegt fast ausschließlich an Google Gemini beziehungsweise an der Google-Suche mit KI und dem KI-Modus von Google." Dennis Ballwieser, Chefredakteur
Die Entwicklung wird vermutlich dazu führen, dass die #Werbung
Genregulation verstehen: Google Deepmind eröffnet laut Studie neue Möglichkeiten
Das KI-Modell AlphaGenome soll das Verständnis verbessern, wie Gene Prozesse im Körper steuern. Es liefert ein größeres und höher aufgelöstes Bild als bisher.
#Google en #Microsoft houden energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters geheim voor de overheid.
Hoog tijd om water, energiegebruik en piekvermogen op te nemen in de E-PRTR richtlijn. Dat is net zo bedrijfsgevoelig als omzet, winst en eigen vermogen. Gewoon publiceren dus. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid-a4915848?gift_token=4915848~1767956111~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~THiRtzTxzPB96nOLMWppa8Cr74u0NDFtyT-lMSZyukQ
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
Here's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/
some pals & i went through all the circulating tapes of the grateful dead sessions at ace's in 1975, fixed dates & track names & tape speeds, & boiled it into a collection of wild music. big ups to @…, @…, …
Die @… spricht sich gegen den geplanten Android-Lockdown ein:
"Obwohl Google es als Sicherheitsmassnahme darstellt, handelt es sich tatsächlich um die Einführung einer verpflichtenden und zentralisierten Überprüfung der Identität sämtlicher App-Entwickler:innen durch Google. […]
Google hätte damit die Position, alleine zu entscheiden, welche Apps …
From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who's who of powerful men are named in Epstein files (Philip Marcelo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-trump-musk-andrew-tisch-google-682447e50bf9a3643a36c9b54ccdfa22
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p61#a260131p61
This is really a "WTF how could they ever think this is a good idea?" kind of vulnerability. Usually the kind of stuff you get from shady, incompetent startups, but this is Google...
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-w…
Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…
and so, once again, the 'solution' isn't in the distro or legacy, it is in the wiki on the internals of Evolution where I just incidentally learn it can be a flatpak or not, and thus there are TWO .local/share folders to wipe. So I delete all accts in Evo, empty trash just in case, exit, wipe those folders, go into Settings, delete the Google connection which shows as two identical so delete them both, reboot.
On boot, go straight to settings which shows none, add Google and I'm in, quick as a wink. I start #Evolution, and lo, there it is, my account fetching emails!
Now to figure that #mastodonel thing and why mastodon.plstore is so problematic.
This some pretty classic Google fail here.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules
Google, OpenAI employees back Anthropic in Pentagon standoff
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5759106-google-openai-anthropic-pentagon-ai/
🌙 Sleep-Tracking: Pixel Watch 4 vs. Apple Watch Ultra ⌚️
Hab beide getestet: Die Detailtiefe der Google Pixel Watch 4 ist dank Fitbit-Integration unschlagbar. Während die Ultra oft nur grobe Phasen liefert, gibt’s bei Google tiefere Einblicke in Erholung & Schlaf-Beständigkeit.
Dazu das kompakte Design – nachts viel angenehmer als der "Klotz" am Arm! 💤
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🆓 Free Entry: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckrNGqll48qORdGaQaTe4yeaVhAGnRo12WlZ7s0_woQjCNdw/viewform
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What's a good Android epub reader that specifically works on e-ink tablets (I have a Supernote A5 X2 Manta)?
[As I have heard about this 'Google' website before, please only suggest apps that you use yourself on a Android-based e-ink tablet and can condone.]
„Die Schwarz-Gruppe, zu der Lidl und Kaufland gehören, migriert 595.000 Mitarbeiter:innen von Microsoft zu Google. Christian Müller, Co‑CEO von Schwarz Digits, erklärt, wie das die Abhängigkeit von amerikanischer Technologie verringern soll […]“
Total mein Humor.
https://t3n.de/ne…
Great reaction video to Angine de Poitrine (h/t cavu4ever on bsky)
(also, if you don't like Google links, then just don't click on it.)
https://share.google/wTp0P439k69fvk0kq
#DIDit - aktueller Status:
https://di.day/category/rezepte/
✅ Von Google zu Ecosia und anderen Suchmaschinen
🟢 Seit Jahren schon Qwant und Startpage
🟡 Google Maps ist noch als eigene Suchmasch…
»Wie Google und Apple mit verbotenen Nackt-Apps immer noch Geld verdienen:
Grok löste mit erstellten Bikini-Bildern weltweit Entrüstung aus. Aber in den offiziellen App-Stores gibt es zahlreiche weitere Tools.«
Was mich daran nervt, ist das Google & Co. ihre Verantwortung nicht real annehmen und zu viel allas gut reden. Dies ist nicht das erste mal als sie sich bei App-Kritik sich offiziell empört und verbessert hingaben.
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Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…
On May 1, 2026, #Google CDN Interconnect, Direct Peering, and Carrier Peering prices go up by as much as 2x in one region (i.e., NA $0.04 -> $0.08 / GiB).
https://cloud.google.com/consulting/cl
Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: its ability to perform multistep tasks is noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-auto-browse-hands-on/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daily_reminders
My second app is now live and available for all too, thanks for testing! Please check it out and leave feedback. Thanks!
Google's annoying attempts to opt one into "AI mode" are reminding me of the colorful popups of the early 2000s.
California's 2024 Google deal to fund journalism is tangled in budget cuts, infighting, and questions over who controls money, leaving journalists empty-handed (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/01/california…
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
Pixel Tablet: Google verlängert Update-Garantie um zwei Jahre
Google schenkt dem Pixel Tablet ein längeres Leben. Das Tablet erhält zwei weitere Jahre Updates bis 2028.
https://www.
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-946…
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Disrupting the IPIDEA residential proxy network.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network
saved 2026-01-30
Android 17: Google beschleunigt Entwicklung und veröffentlicht zweite Beta
Google macht Druck bei der Entwicklung von Android 17: Nur zwei Wochen nach der ersten Beta folgt bereits die zweite.
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«Tech-Branche—Wer nicht promptet, fliegt - Wie Google, Meta und Co den KI-Einsatz erzwingen:
Neuer KI-Zwang in der Tech-Branche sorgt für mehr Druck und die Gewissheit, dass Konzerne auf weiteren Stellenabbau hinsteuern»
Die einen sagen dem Gewinn orientiert, die anderen sehen deren Ausbeutung von Menschen. Die KI wird nicht die Lösung sein aber ein "Argument" mehr um Menschen zu entlassen.
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Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
Why every AI company talks about AI safety, but none wants to put their money where their mouth is. Not even Anthropic.
Including comparisons with thalidomide (aka Contergan), asbestos, and tobacco/oil lobbying.
Also that the "but China!" excuse might not hold and that China is banning AI girlfriends, because the resulting addiction will make Chinese youth (and thus China itself) weak.
So: Can we talk again about reducing the addictiveness of social media platform…
Gemini navigiert Fußgänger bei Google Maps
Google Maps bekommt dank Gemini eine KI-Navigation für Fußgänger und Fahrradfahrer. Dazu gehören auch Umgebungsinformationen.
https://www.heise.de/news/G…
AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/amazon-googles-new-interco…
Marcus Schwarze stellt in der #FAZ die Toptools der Künstlichen Intelligenz 2026 vor und lobt die Bild geneirerungsfunlktionen von Gemini und ChatGPT.
Meine Erfahrung: Wenn beide Bild-KIs am deutschen Umlaut "Ausgewählt" scheitern kann man nicht von wirklich guten Tools sprechen. Sorry. Das ist einfach gar nicht intelligent.
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's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/india-is-teaching-google-h…
Project Genie: Google öffnet experimentelles KI-Weltmodell für Anwender
Google Genie 3 generiert aus Textprompts und Bildern interaktive 3D-Umgebungen. Mit Project Genie können US-Nutzer das Weltmodell nun selbst ausprobieren.
Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
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
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Klage gegen Google-KI: Falsche Such-Infos können Unterlassung rechtfertigen
Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/google-launches-nano-bana…
Google launches Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds using Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869726/google-ai-project-genie-3-world-mode…
Donnerstag: Änderungen bei Google-Suche, USA gegen Datenhoheit anderer Länder
Google-Überarbeitung wegen DMA USA gegen lokale Clouds Nvidias neue Finanzrekorde Cyberangriff mit KI-Chatbots Wachstum der Online-Werbung #heiseshow
A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/ex-google-engineer-guilty-…
Google-DeepMind-Chef: Der nächste Einstein könnte eine KI sein
Googles KI-Chef Demis Hassabis rechnet in frühestens fünf bis zehn Jahren mit einer AGI. In einem Interview sagte er, was diese können muss.
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Letter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…
Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
Google verbessert YouTube Premium Lite
Google wertet das Premium-Lite-Abo von YouTube auf: Nutzer können Videos auf dem Handy auch im Hintergrund abspielen. Zudem werden Downloads freigeschaltet.
https://www.
Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/
Google zahlt 68 Millionen US-Dollar zur Beilegung einer Datenschutzklage
Im jahrelangen Streit um die illegale Aufzeichnung von privaten Gesprächen durch seinen Sprachassistenten Google Assistant einigt sich Google mit den Klägern.
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/alphabet-owned-r…
Versehentlich mitgehört: Google zahlt 68 Millionen US-Dollar wegen Assistant
Sammelkläger in den USA bekommen 68 Millionen US-Dollar von Google. Sie werfen dem Unternehmen Privatsphärenverletzungen mit dem Google Assistant vor.
Klage gegen Google-KI: Falsche Such-Infos können Unterlassung rechtfertigen
Das Landgericht Frankfurt stuft KI-Fehler als potenzielle Wettbewerbsbehinderung ein. Firmen können sich so mit dem Kartellrecht gegen falsche KI-Texte wehren.
Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…
Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with "enhanced access" to Gemini 3 Pro and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/google-ai-plus-us/
Besserer Schutz für Android-Geräte: Google führt neue Sicherheitsfeatures ein
Google sichert Android-Smartphones vor unberechtigten Zugriffen etwa bei Diebstahl weiter ab. Der Konzern hat dafür neue Funktionen angekündigt.
Aliro öffnet Smart Locks mit Smartphones von Apple, Google und Samsung
Der neue Smart-Home-Standard Aliro vereinheitlicht das Öffnen vernetzter Türschlösser durch digitale Schlüssel in Wallet-Apps.
ht…
Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/reiner-pope-of-matx-on-accelerating…
The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan
Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3
Samsung erklärt ausbleibende Google-Play-Dienstupdates
Seit einigen Wochen gibt es Verwunderung über ausbleibende Google-Play-Dienstupdates auf Samsung-Smartphones. Jetzt erklärt Samsung das.
https://www.
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-stri…
Aus für POP-Import in Gmail: Google verlängert Gnadenfrist
Die POP-Abfrage anderer Accounts und Gmailify wollte Gmail schon im Januar absägen. Nun erhalten Google-Nutzer etwas mehr Zeit für den Absprung.
https:/…
Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/google-restricts
A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M total downloads as of July 2025 (Financial Times)
Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/redwood-attra…
Google bringt Gemini 3.1 Pro heraus
Neuer Tag, neues Modell: Google legt mit Gemini 3.1 Pro nach – für komplexe Aufgaben und besser als der Vorgänger.
https://www.heise.de/news/Google-bringt-Ge
Samsung and Google partner to bring Google Photos to TizenOS-powered TVs, launching in March 2026 and showing curated memories, ahead of CES 2026 (Rajesh Pandey/Android Police)
https://www.androidpolice.com/samsung-brings-google-photos-biggest-screen-home/
India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-ta…
Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create "expert agents" for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed (Ian Krietzberg/Puck)
https://puck.news/how-poetiqs-six-person-team-beat-google-at-ai/
Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/883307/google-producerai-deal-music
The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…