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So as user of the Google eco-system I can now use Gemini for coding in: Colab, Jules, Anti-Gravity, AI-studio .... 🥳
#ai #google #vibecoding

#GoogleCloud #Observability Adopts #OpenTelemetry Protocol for Native Trace Ingestion

The Google AdTech monopoly trial is a really big deal, bigger in my mind than the search monopoly.
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/its-groundhog-day-for-a-google-breakup

It's Groundhog Day for a Google Breakup
Deliberations on the remedy to Google's Ad Tech monopoly start today. Will Judge Brinkema deliver Google the break-up it evaded in Search?

The hell kind of farm equipment y'all repairing over there‽‽
#YouTube #ads #google

How Google is beating Apple
#google

Google's Conversational Photo Editor Is the Rare AI Feature People Will Actually Use
Google's tool greatly simplifies photo editing; just tell your phone what changes you want in the photo, and it'll execute them. It also hints at the coming leap in how we interact with computers.

I use a Google account on my secondary user profile with GrapheneOS to download apps from Google Play, and I have my subscription list is public over there:
#Google …

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.
Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend

Google gibt den Suchenden oft schon in der KI-Zusammenfassung Antworten auf ihre Fragen zu Symptomen, Medikamenten oder Reisezielen. Außerdem sind Reichweitenverlierer der neuen Google-Suche in Europa Nachrichtenseiten und Community-Plattformen #Handelsblatt #Google

I asked Google "What is a tank in gaming?", and I just *love* the picture Google selected.
#Google #googlesearch

all names and places are purely fictional, this is for illustration to show how incredibly powerful the #google #maps #api s are and how brilliant they can be used for planning, here as an example a ci…

LLM-guided development is making #autobahn truly great. Now it decided to arbitrarily start "vendoring" flatbuffers. Except that by "vendoring", they actually mean installing their own top-level `flatbuffers` package as part of `autobahn` (and therefore overwriting the original `flatbuffers`). I wonder how #Google feels about that…
#NoLLM

2025 and I can't pay a creator directly for an ad-free experience of their work... I have to give £12.99 to Google instead.
How screwed up is that?!
#Dammit #Google #TheWorstTimeline

Whether you like or dislike Chrome, the fact that ChromeOS is "just a web browser" is a positive. I don't want to see them mess that up. Putting Android on these things seems like a bad idea.
#AluminiumOS #Google

»Die Macht der Tech-Giganten — Trumps Waffe gegen #Europa:
Deutsche Behörden und Unternehmen sind fast vollständig abhängig von US-Tech-Giganten wie #Microsoft, #Google oder

Monitor: Die Macht der Tech-Giganten: Trumps Waffe gegen Europa - hier anschauen
Deutsche Behörden und Unternehmen sind fast vollständig abhängig von US-Tech-Giganten wie Microsoft, Google oder Amazon. Für US-Präsident Donald Trump ist das eine mächtige Waffe in möglichen Handelskriegen. Im schlimmsten Fall droht Deutschland und Europa ein 'digitaler Blackout'. Experten warnen davor, dass Deutschland gegen solche Angriffe nicht gewappnet ist.

Incredible that #google makes it impossible to smoothly delete all your photos, either making you scroll select for hours or forcing you to use 3rd party tools like https://github.com/mrishab/google-phot

"Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"
#Google #Climate #ClimateChange #Technology

Hmmmm, ja klar.
Ist das jetzt Überschätzung oder gehen die #Massenentlassungen noch 5 Jahre weiter?
#Google plant, seine #KI-Infrastruktur alle sechs Monate zu verdoppeln, um der steigen…

"Freie Alternative zu #Google und #Apple: Free Software Foundation plant #LibrePhone"

Just solved the 'my native #iphone #calendar won't show the #googlecalendar that my partner shared with me' problem. All I had to do was go to this sneaky secret URL and check the box

For those out of the Loop:
#Google, #Meta, Microsoft, any of the tech companies who provide "portals" to news and content, scrape this content and shove it in a feed that they have control over (obstensibly based on your "habits" and "preferences"). The portal keeps the $ad.revenue$ th…

#google: The AI we are putting into all of our products cannot be trusted, but it also can't be turned off
#microsoft: Windows 11 is now an agentic OS, and what that means is it can install malware
By the way,

#MustRead: Der #Google #AIMode "analysiert nicht nur, was gesucht wird, sondern auch, warum."
❗ "Suchanfragen werden zu Persönlichkeitsprofilen"
❗ intransparente Daten-Zusammenf…

»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 […]

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

Florian Harms fordert das Offensichtliche: Gewinne, die von #Google, #Meta, #Microsoft und Co in Deutschland erwirtschaftet werden, müssen hier besteuert werden – nicht in irischen Daten-Oasen. Punkt. Nur…

Stoppschild für Meta und Google? Deutschland droht die digitale Versklavung
Digitalkonzerne zersetzen Demokratien. Es braucht ein Stoppschild.

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

Looking up Christina Chong on #Google after watching an episode of #STStrangeNewWorlds. 2 questions in Google changes the output to Christina Chang, a completely different person, age and nationality. If a human did that we'd call them racist for thinking all Asian people look al…

"We associate your Google Account with a region so that we can better provide our services to you. Your region association will change within 30 days.
Current: Spain
New: United States — Virginia"
What? The? Fuck?
#Google

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?

#Google's review system has become a pure joke!
Whenever you say anything negative, whether on Google Maps or the Play Store, your review gets blocked or hidden... what a joke 🤦 🙄
W - T - F
#wtf

Damn, y’all, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar People Farmer that’s helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine…
Maybe we should talk to their Chief Ethics Officer or something?
#google #gmail #genocide

Gmail AI gets even more intrusive
Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal i…

The nightmare of the #Google case,
"As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale."

Studier-Modus: #Google bringt KI-Lernhilfe in #Gemini
https://www.

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 …

Ähm … hat Google grad Stress mit der Nasa oder so?
#google #nasa #dns

I had to use #Google as a search engine again for a few hours, for reasons. And that was even without an active ad blocker. Seriously, how do so many people put up with that? And yeah, everyone who's happy with it probably shouldn't try #Kagi, otherwise they'll end up spe…

#Google und #PayPal wollen gemeinsam die Bereiche Einkauf und Bezahlung auf Basis künstlicher Intelligenz voranbringen. Dazu seien beide Unternehmen eine auf mehrere Jahre ausgelegte Partnerschaft eingegangen, heißt es in einer Mitteilung von Google und PayPal. Sie sprechen von einer »Revolution im H…

"Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid"
#Google #Technology
https://www.

Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid
AI data centers are set to swamp U.S. power grids. Google’s new utility deals aim to flip the script — shifting workloads to ease strain and speed its…

The contrast between Google AI search results, which are terrible and totally unreliable, and NotebookLM is amazing.
I think it is irresponsible from Google to integrate AI search results in Google Search...
#ai #googlesearch

🚀 #Google #Gemini AI now built directly into #Chrome browser bringing intelligent assistance right where you browse without switching tabs

Kiedy kupiłem telefon #Pixel, wydałem trzykrotnie więcej niż normalnie. Uznałem, że to uzasadnione, bo w końcu będę miał dobre wsparcie oprogramowania (#GrapheneOS).
Przez ostatnie pół roku, #Google:
1. za…

Breaking news: #Google ist ein #Arschloch
https://arstechnica.com/gad…

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.

Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol

So what do you do when your "privacy search engine" gets in bed with Microsoft?
Google, you are now the lesser evil!
Humanity: 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦
#Google #Microsoft #Joke

#Gboard Japanese team’s April (ROT6) Fools project of this year, Gboard Dial Version.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4
(Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a landing page this year.)

#Google

Die #EU verhängt fast 3 Mrd. Strafe gegen #Google – Trump nennt es „Diebstahl von US-Jobs“. Im Kern hat er recht: Europas Milliarden für Google fließen zurück in die USA, stärken Abhängigkeiten – und Trumps Wahlfonds. Wer googelt, gmailt, youtube’t, zahlt also doppelt: mit Daten und mit Einfluss.
Ko…

Oh dear, Trump is so predictable,
#trump #google #eu

Today, I realised that #Google has introduced #ads on #YouTube videos in browsers.
1) Code is so invasive to privacy that Firefox refuses to display the site
2) On another browser, I need to watch 2 ads ev…

Oh, Jings. Both #Google and #Amazon are revealed to be #complicit in the #GazaGenocide. In an extraordinary…

Google pimpt Maps für E-Auto-Fahrer:innen: Freie Ladesäulen werden angezeigt und KI soll jetzt voraussagen, wie voll die Ladesäulen bei Ankunft sind. Klingt praktisch – aber macht uns erneut abhängig von Googles Daten-Ökosystem. Komfort gegen Kontrollverlust, die x-te Runde.
#googlemaps #Digitalisierung

Always fun/challenging to read new AI (pre)papers like this. "Base models know how to reason, thinking models learn when".
#AI #Google #reasoning

To be expected I suppose, but on rejecting #GMail's auto-inclusion of #GeminiAI snoops, seems it also disables Categories, the only feature that was keeping me on their email client!
Only related by the predator, another #Google surprise is notice my website's reCAPTCHA somehow now requires #GooglCloud for which they graciously offer me $300 credit and no indications whatsoever what that buys.

#SteadySupporter
Mit Klicklauten und Pfeifen kommunizieren #Delfine seit jeher. Jetzt will #Google mithilfe von #KI

Mit Delfinen sprechen: Googles KI will den Pfeif-Code knacken
Du hast Dich schon immer gefragt, was Delfine sagen? Google will es jetzt mit dem KI-Projekt Projekt DolphinGemma herausfinden.

Apple gibt Siri bald ein Google-Hirn: Statt auf Privacy-Purismus setzt Cupertino in Sachen KI auf Milliarden-Deal mit Gemini. Von Revolution keine Spur – Apple kämpft gegen Rückstand, testet Konkurrenz, will aber mittelfristig wieder unabhängig sein. Revolutioniert wird erstmal nur die Bilanz. #Apple #Google

"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

😳 How did I miss this?!
If you’ve got a #Samsung #Galaxy, you can grab #Google One #AI Premium…

Chrome bleibt – aber der Wettbewerb beginnt erst jetzt
Das Gericht hat #Google nicht zerschlagen. Das ist ein großer Sieg für den Konzern. Der Browser #Chrome bleibt im Haus – und damit der größte kontinuierliche Zufluss an Nutzerdaten aus dem Google seine Such- und Antwortsysteme speist.

Die Konferenz der 🇨🇭 #schweizerischen #Datenschutzbeauftragten (#privatim), hält die Auslagerung von bestimmten #Personendaten an #Cloud-Dienste von #AWS #Google #Microsoft etc. für unzulässig:
➡️ oft fehlt #E2EE
➡️ zu wenig #Transparenz
➡️ erheblicher Kontrollverlust
➡️ #Rechtsunsicherheit
➡️ #CloudAct
24.11.2025:
#SaaS #M365 #TeamDatenschutz #privacy #digitalesouveranitat #eusummit25 #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #BigTech #ms365

Sometimes \(2^n 1\) is not prime. but let me just check that on #Google.
#Odometer #AISlop #math

Interessant, Gemini 3 is alleen getraind op Google hardware (TPUs), niet op Nvidia-GPUs 🤔
#ai #google #nvidia #tpu

Klage gegen #SocialMedia-Plattformen
New York City hat #Google #Bytedance und #Meta, die Betreiber von

Doomscrolling wird zur Gefahr: New York City greift Social Media-Plattformen an
Die Stadt New York hat die Social-Media-Giganten Google, Bytedance und Meta verklagt. Die Anklageschrift nennt einen ganz klaren Grund. 

When I bought a #Pixel phone, I've spent three times as much as I usually spend. I figured out it's justified, since I'm finally going to have a phone with good software support (#GrapheneOS).
Over the last 6 months, #Google:
1. locked down the device tree,
2. increased embargo to security updates to 3 months,
3. broke battery charge limiter.
Won't recommend this to anyone.
#Android

I am old enough to remember when Android was still cool!
#Android #Google #GrapheneOS #CalyxOS

Was könnten diese Firmen und Menschen gemeinsam haben?
#Google, #Meta, #Apple, #Blackrock,

Die #EU verhängt Milliardenstrafe gegen #Google, #Trump nennt das laut #Tagesschau gleich „Erpressung“. Aber …

Do you use #Orbot?
#Android #GrapheneOS #Privacy #Security #Tor #TorBrowser #Google #Apple #iOS
Yes
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