Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
January 3 2025Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD (1/12): Shashdot thread.
Read moreScams Based on Fake Google Emails
December 27 2024Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.
Read moreWatermark for LLM-Generated Text
October 25 2024Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with...
Read moreDetecting Malicious Trackers
May 21 2024From Slashdot:
Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday,...
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Another Chrome Vulnerability
May 14 2024Google has patched another Chrome zero-day:
On Thursday, Google said an anonymous source notified it of the vulnerability. The vulnerability carries a severity rating of 8.8 out of...
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Class-Action Lawsuit against Google’s Incognito Mode
April 3 2024The lawsuit has been settled:
Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents...
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Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023
March 22 2024BleepingComputer has the details. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot.
The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total...
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AI and the Evolution of Social Media
March 19 2024Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed...
Read moreNew Image/Video Prompt Injection Attacks
February 23 2024Simon Willison has been playing with the video processing capabilities of the new Gemini Pro 1.5 model from Google, and it’s really impressive. Which means a lot of scary new...
Read moreGoogle Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
December 26 2023Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
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