87 posts tagged ‘Google’
CES 2025: What to expect from the year’s first and biggest tech show
TechCrunch,
CES 2025 officially kicks off in Las Vegas on the morning of Tuesday, January 7 and runs through the end of the day on January 10. The “official” dates are specific to when the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center is open to attendees, and ultimately belie the show’s true duration. A pair of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Scott Knaster Occasionally Misses Expectations
mjtsai,
Scott Knaster: I worked in Silicon Valley for many years with brilliant people at amazing companies that changed the world. A lot of my stories are about those people and places. But some of them are about something unexpected I saw on a walk around my neighborhood. Stuff like that.I tell stories face to face, […]
Apple to Defend Google Revenue Sharing Agreement
Jody Godoy (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser.[…]Apple received an estimated $20 billion […]
Gemini 2.0
David Pierce (Slashdot): Google is releasing Gemini 2.0 on Wednesday, about 10 months after the company first launched 1.5. It’s still in what Google calls an “experimental preview,” and only one version of the model — the smaller, lower-end 2.0 Flash — is being released. But Hassabis says it’s still a big day. “Effectively,” Hassabis […]
Microsoft-Trusted ICP-Brasil Certificate for google.com
Andrew Ayer (via Hacker News): A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a presumably-unauthorized certificate for google.com.This can used to intercept traffic to Google from Edge and other Windows applications (except Chrome and Firefox). Hug-ops to Google folks.Microsoft are well aware of the extensive history of problems with this CA - I […]
DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android
Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address […]
Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing […]
LLMs make good analysts, bad oracles
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I’m not an AI apologist by any means, but I’m frustrated by the muddled way LLMs have been marketed, portrayed, and used. I want to focus on the utility of them here, rather than the moral or legal implications of using copyrighted content to feed their corpora. One of the first things we started doing […]