For a little while a couple days ago, Google served up a meaningless AI message and a wall of blank […]
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Google vs. open-source sideloading
Via The Register: Google will extend developer verification to all Android apps, not just those installed from the Play Store, […]
Why Google created the “indirect prompt injection” vuln
Well, this happened at Google recently: Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, […]
Dystopia watch: a megacorp’s stealth ads infesting the short-film industry
Google really wants to go all-in on AI and have us accept the resulting river of slop as the new […]
YouTube helpfully reminds me that Hitler is dead
One of the YouTube channels I subscribe to is Megaprojects. Its main focus is on big construction projects (hence the […]
Google’s AI tried to upsell me on a paid version of Firefox
Once in a while when I’m updating my phone’s apps, I’ll idly click over to an app’s Play Store page […]
The stupidest “explicit content” moderation I’ve ever seen personally
While I was writing about an old sci-fi book that probably wasn’t deliberately removed from Google’s search results, the theory […]
Why I keep changing Google accounts
I have a Google account, of course. It’s easy to not rely on Google, but hard to do without entirely. I’m old enough to have had a Google account for years […]
YouTube for Android’s ephemeral pseudo-changelog
I’ve written before about corporations that don’t bother letting their customers know about changes to their apps or services. Just […]
TFW a Google Street View car passes you while you’re on the sidewalk, and you imediately check whether your phone’s […]
Ray of Infamy 