You can now use your #Gmail account in #Proton Mail
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report cites an AI consultant claiming a client accidentally spent $500,000,000 on Claude in a single month.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
Tuta joins Euro-Office 🇪🇺 - one week before its first launch! 🔥
➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/tuta-joins-euro-office
Let's bring freedom from #Microsoft and #Google to Europe, @nextcloud @openproject @xwikiorg @soverin #EuroStack
Let's build a better web! 💪🏼 🎉
I urge all developers of #Android apps to NOT pre-emptively obey the new terms of #Google requiring you to sign up for the Android Developer Console.
It looks like Google is attempting a power grab and wants to prevent ALL installations of Android apps without official Google approval; even those installed outside Google Play.
This is an attack on both developer and user freedom and unacceptable.
#KeepAndroidOpen #VendorLockIn #software #development #FreeSoftware
Rivian says AI makes debate over CarPlay ‘completely obsolete’
Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, joined Nilay Patel in the latest Decoder interview. And his comments on CarPlay show Rivian continuing to double down on its refusal to support Apple’s platform. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #9to5Mac [9to5Mac]
The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.
If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.
https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.
We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
Thank you for your support!
Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
#Google 的基础设施和工程文化原本就是为了稳定而设计，并且刻意保持缓慢，而利用AI提速的压力正在和这种体系发生冲突。
RE: https://techhub.social/@keepandroidopen/116126023448256005
The OpenStreetMap Foundation has signed the open letter to Google to Keep Android Open.
Something notable about this case is that Google essentially argued that everyone knows Google's AI overviews are untrustworthy, and it's on them if they believe any of it. Coupled with Microsoft's assertion that Microsoft Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, one really has to wonder how seriously the companies pushing AI take their own technology.
From the linked article: "The Oumi analysis also found that 56 percent of the correct Gemini 3 answers couldn't be backed up by the sources Google linked. The AI is giving answers whose origins users can't trace." This technology is not fit for purpose.
Frankly, given how much is at stake, I find it unacceptable that multi-trillion-dollar corporations are playing word games with the legal system. They should release their products on Steam and XBOX if they're for entertainment only and get them out of search engines and office suites, tools people use to do real work every day.
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Google #GoogleGemini #Gemini #AIOverviews
From the linked article: "The Oumi analysis also found that 56 percent of the correct Gemini 3 answers couldn't be backed up by the sources Google linked. The AI is giving answers whose origins users can't trace." This technology is not fit for purpose.
Frankly, given how much is at stake, I find it unacceptable that multi-trillion-dollar corporations are playing word games with the legal system. They should release their products on Steam and XBOX if they're for entertainment only and get them out of search engines and office suites, tools people use to do real work every day.
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Google #GoogleGemini #Gemini #AIOverviews
Niemiecki sąd uznaje treści w ramach funkcji AI Overview od Google'a jako przygotowywane przez giganta technologicznego
W wyroku datowanym na 28 maja 2026 roku, wydanym przez niemiecki sąd okręgowy w Monachium, uznano treści generowane w ramach AI Overview od Google’a za własne treści giganta technologicznego, za które ponosi on bezpośrednią odpowiedzialność. Dwa wydawnictwa zlokalizowane w tym mieście, które w przytaczanym dokumencie nie zostały nazwane publicznie, pozwały amerykańskiego giganta technologicznego z tytułu […]
#kontrabanda #informacje #google #niemcy #postępowania_sądowe
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香港8月5日——Google旗下網誌服務提供商Blogger突然下架大量網誌（部落格），理由皆是違反〈惡意軟件和類似惡意內容〉政策。
【8月6日更新】Google證實出現程式錯誤（bug）導致「一些」網誌遭標記為惡意程式，惟拒絕回應受影響規模。
詳情： https://www.tonytse.cloud/2026/08/blogger-incorrectly-removes-blogs.html
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788
“Google was a different company 9 years ago.”
Hmm… was it, though? 🤔
https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie
#google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa
The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.
Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.
The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.
Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.
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That's just fscking great, ffs:
When Google Changes Brand Websites To AI Pages In Dynamic Takeover
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413133/when-google-changes-brand-websites-to-ai-page-in-d.html
> This patent allows Google to evaluate a brand's landing page -- and if it predicts the page will underperform for a specific user, generate a machine-learning-generated alternative page in real-time. It's described in the background of a “conventional system."
#Google's getting into the business of "improving" your website landing page, without your permission. 🤡
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🚨Google wants to kill Android freedom
We've signed an Open Letter to urge #Google to keep #Android #free & #open!
Otherwise Google’s Android is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.
Here's more info: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-wants-to-kill-android-freedom
Read the full open letter here: 👉 https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
⚠️ The FSFE has submitted its position to the @EUCommission's Android interoperability consultation under the #DMA
The FSFE is calling for the following, among other things:
🔹 the right to fully uninstall AI-based features from Android devices,
🔸 and access to interoperability functions for developers free from #Google verification requirements
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Google 将要求用户等待 24 小时以安装未经其验证之开发者的 App。
- 目前在 Android 安装第三方来源的 App 需要启用一个「未知来源」的开关。
- 这个设计在将来会只适用于向 Google 提交身份信息并支付 $25 验证费的开发者发布的 App。
- 对于未被 Google 验证的开发者的 App，用户需启用开发者模式、重启手机并等待 24 小时方可继续安装。
- Google 亦提供面向学生等软件开发爱好者的免费及非实名开发者账号，但只允许至多 20 名用户安装其 APp。
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
linksrc: https://t.me/billchenla/21852
thread: /4768
#Google #Android
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Welllllll this isn't great.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website
#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906
Ready for another joke? 🥁
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡
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"In both cases, [A.I. start-up] Oumi’s analysis focused on 4,326 Google searches. The company found that the results were accurate 85 percent of the time with Gemini 2 and 91 percent of the time with Gemini 3."
#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #enshittification #google #gemini
RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116372697459719963
One of the worst things about this is that Big Tech corporations like Google, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have become so disproportionally wealthy and powerful that they can unleash this shit show upon the world without being held accountable… 😖
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #google #gemini
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,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨⚖️👨⚖️
Why I'm using wired Android Auto when all the cool kids are switching to wireless
Sometimes, you have to dial back the tech to make ends meet.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]