Notices tagged with google

Despite all the enthusiasm for AI, the signal from bond markets suggests that investors are unconvinced that the technology will generate sustained or widespread growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/what-the-markets-really-think-about-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #google #anthropic #deepseek #markets #globaleconomy

"Demand Google Stop Platforming israeli Propaganda Ads

A call to #action from #Google #workers"

" #Israel is deliberately starving millions of #Palestinians in #Gaza, creating a catastrophic #famine confirmed & declared "entirely man-made" by the #IPC. In the face of this atrocity, Google signed a $45 million contract with the israeli #apartheid regime to fuel propaganda that whitewashes its forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza..."

https://bad-ads.replit.app/

Google is flagging open source projects without an explanation. 😐

https://news.itsfoss.com/google-safe-browsing-flags-immich/

#opensource #google

#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction

#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

Every time I see a #YouTube creator who announces they are giving up their regular job to work full time on YT, I cringe. Because at any time, for any reason, #Google/YT via their total control of YT algorithms, could destroy the lives of those creators and their families by devastating their income. And with YT on an AI creation binge, you can bet this is only the start of horrific declines for all but the most top-tier creators. Don't fall for this.

O que aconteceu com rodar o que desse na telha na sua própria máquina? https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/

Computadores nasceram como uma ferramenta que permitia fazer o que quisesse com ela sem restrições.

Mas com o passar do tempo e advento dos smartphones, um punhado de empresas tenta decidir o que você pode fazer ou não com a máquina pela qual pagou.

Começou com os consoles de videogame, então passou para o smartphone e agora periga chegar aos desktops.

Um punhado de empresas controlando sua máquina, sempre sob algum pretexto nobre como "segurança". O Android é a mais recente vítima desse perigoso movimento.

#Android #Google #Microsoft #Apple

Google Gemini unter Android in drei Schritten deaktivieren: App-Zugriffe, Datenspeicherung und Systemintegration Schritt für Schritt abschalten. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/google-gemini-unter-android-deaktivieren-was-wirklich-funktioniert/

#gemini #google #datenschutz #KI #tracking #analyse #surveillance #adb #GrapheneOS #dsgvo

One of the things that I love about putting all my folk tale translations into a wiki is that I am also using this as an opportunity to remove another #Google service from my life.

My old interactive map was done with Google MyMaps:

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

My new interactive map (still a work in progress) is created dynamically by a combination of #MediaWiki with the #SemanticMediaWiki and Maps extensions, and displayed via the #Leaflet API (which uses #OpenStreetMaps ).

https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page

This gives me _far_ more flexibility in how to construct my interactive map - and it will give me the opportunity to dynamically create thematic maps, too!

If #Google says you should not block it, then you should block it. Pays to do the opposite to what Big Tech says as they never have your best interests at heart.

https://www.improvemysearchranking.com/what-does-googleother-do/

@tyil @SuperDicq @Vivaldi

“Generally a browser's most important thing is their engine.”

Think more, and you'll realise that #Vivaldi is an #exception. It's only #sellingPoint, as I said, is the #UI. There are many other #privacyFocused #browsers, #VivaldiBrowser's #powerfull #features are what keep it #afloat TBH.

"It's somehow fine for them to take the work of others, but this doesn't go both ways? Does this not sound a bit weird to you?"

If they make their work #available to be accessed by anyone, they'll die in the end. #VivaldiTechnologies is a much smaller company compared to #Google and #Mozilla.

"But even with Mozilla actively trying to make Firefox the worst it can be, the debloated forks are nowhere near as popular as the main thing, so your whole argument falls flat in reality."

No, it doesn't, because #FF was released much earlier than V. This means it had much more time to become #popular enough to keep it's #userbase, while Vivaldi wouldn't.

"forks are unlikely to become more popular than the main thing to begin with. They'd have to really fuck shit up to make a fork suddenly take all their marketshare, and at that point its just the market working as intended."

Yes, for more popular browsers. But for new ones, this is not true.

Some big news regarding mobile OSes:

First, Graphene OS has confirmed a partnership with a large OEM to bring support to non-Pixel devices (Snapdragon SoC):

https://piunikaweb.com/2025/10/13/grapheneos-ending-pixel-exclusivity-new-oem/

This is good news, but IMHO it only delays the unavoidable demise of free AOSP-based projects since Google is now finally pulling the rug.

Second, the FSF announced Librephone, an initiative to bring real freedom to mobile devices:

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

This is also good, but it must be taken in the right perspective: Librephone, as far as I understand it, is not a new mobile OS, but rather an initiative to open-source existing proprietary firmware blobs. AOSP-based open source OSes like Lineage, Graphene, and even /e/OS, will hopefully benefit from this initiative, by being able to replace binary blobs with open-source firmware. But they still remain AOSP-based solutions, and therefore bound to the Google ecosystem.

There are two problems here that really need to be addressed.

The first one is political. Legislators and citizens must come to acknowledge that a democratic society where the full mobile ecosystem is in the hands of a corporate duopoly is not acceptable.

The second one is technological: AOSP is not a fully free OS, it's a trojan horse, a trap set by Google years ago that is springing right now. We need to move away from Android and embrace full GNU/Linux solutions, or even something completely new, at this point I don't even care. I've heard good opinions of Postmarket OS. Any feedbacks here?

Say what you want about Richard Stallman, but he saw this coming.

#android #aosp #google #lineageos #grapheneos #eos #postmarketos #libre #foss #floss #opensource #privacy #security #surveillance

Custom-ROM GrapheneOS kommt auf Smartphones von großem Hersteller

Die Entwickler der sicheren Custom-ROMs GrapheneOS arbeiten mit einem großen Smartphone-Hersteller zusammen, um Geräte abseits der Pixel-Geräte zu unterstützen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Custom-ROM-GrapheneOS-kommt-auf-Smartphones-von-grossem-Hersteller-10767072.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #Android #Datenschutz #Google #IT #Mobiles #OpenSource #Qualcomm #news

Maybe #AI isn’t so bad after all.

#Gemini #Google #KeithOlbermann #COVID19 #MSNBC #Countdown

If #Google was smart, they would match this bug bounty for #Android (although they do a really great job of rewarding hackers who find exploits).

👉🏾 A major evolution of #Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-security-bounty-evolved/

I wonder if it is targeting #Russia 🇷🇺 due to #Google’s forced absence from the country‽ (due to international sanctions)

👉🏾 New #Android spyware ClayRat imitates #WhatsApp, #TikTok, #YouTube https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-spyware-clayrat-imitates-whatsapp-tiktok-youtube/

#Google’s #YouTube Capitulates to dictator #Trump 🤮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5l8esK8iY

OpenAI Flags Competition Concerns To EU Regulators

#ChatGPT #AI #OpenAI #Google #AntitrustInvestigations

https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/2226210/openai-flags-competition-concerns-to-eu-regulators

I am back on the stock #fairphone5 rom after trying #ubuntutouch on it. I got #WayDroid working thanks to the helper in the #openstore but #whatsapp detected the unusual setup and wanted me to add it as a secondary device (it's my main one). My thoughts on the stock rom are that it's full of #google #bloatware and the #youtube app is riddled with ads which make watching videos impossible. #revanced to the rescue