New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI | TechCrunch

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/new-google-commercial-imagines-a-declaration-of-independence-written-with-help-from-ai/

#TopNews #News #AI #Google #theDeclarationofIndependence

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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI | TechCrunch

The fun thing about having worked on privacy issues for as long as I have is that any time somebody says "hey this new surveillance vector is bad" I can go "actually it's far worse than you probably think lol"

https://gts.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/statuses/01KWK6G3KZRZC9RMP3VDF5YC2T

#privacy #surveillance #google

Google loses fight against massive anti-trust fine | DW News
#google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZ2PVzT_NE

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence

Nano Banana 2 Lite: Google stellt sein bisher schnellstes KI-Bildmodell vor

Google hat Nano Banana 2 Lite vorgestellt, das Bilder besonders schnell und günstig erzeugen soll. Zudem ist Gemini Omni Flash nun für Entwickler verfügbar.

https://www.heise.de/news/Nano-Banana-2-Lite-Google-stellt-sein-bisher-schnellstes-KI-Bildmodell-vor-11346407.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Google #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #news

#News #IT #Google
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Wow – pure SnakeOil, those so-called anti-virus or anti-malware scanners! "we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store"?!? WTF?!? 🤯

And yes, that's part of a real response a dev got.

So they claim: your app is malware, as long as it is not at Google Play. I'd say we've heard it the other way around, too…

#SnakeOil #AntiVirus #MalwareScanner #falsePositive #Google

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Excerpt from the reply by a so-called security company: Thank you for your response and for sharing the details regarding your application. We understand your concerns and appreciate your efforts toward promoting open-source software. However, as per our internal protocol, we are unable to proceed with the whitelisting request unless the application is available on the Google Play Store. We regret that we are unable to disclose our internal analysis process or the criteria used for our evaluations, as these are confidential. Once your application is published on the Google Play Store, please feel free to resubmit your whitelisting request. We will then be happy to review it in accordance with our standard process. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.

Google has new terms and conditions. If you have a gmail account, you should have gotten an email about it. It would be wise to click through to read the non-lawyer-speak document about what they've changed.

While I'm annoyed at the hand-waving of "such as this or that" phrasing, it's readable.

#Google

For the 5th time this month, Google marks us red for alleged malware they cannot even name. Can someone please shut that automatic bullshit generator down, please?

Btw, if you're looking for how to disable that circus component in your Android browsers, see here for instructions: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#notes-on-how-to-disable-google-safebrowsing-in-browsers-on-android

#Google #SafeBrowsing

We had a guy to finish my Dad's house clearance this morning.

'Could you review me on Google?'

'I no longer have a Google account.'

He gave me a look as if I was from another planet. Shows how much that insidious US Big Tech firm is embedded in everything.

#Google #DeGoogle #BigTech

Twin earthquakes strike Venezuela, in photos

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within about a minute of each other on Wednesday, causing buildings to collapse and damage in Caracas.

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/venezuela-earthquake-caracas-8ac96a783cd3c3b4312653806511d824

#TopNews #News #Venezuela #CARACAS #Google

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Twin earthquakes strike Venezuela, in photos

#book #ya #youngadult #youngadulttoadult

Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#book #scifi

Journey Through the Video Game World

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#book #childrensbook #childrenstreasurehunt #treasurehuntnovel

The Treasure of Milky Lake

#kindle - https://amazon.com/Treasure-Milky-Lake-Ashad-Mukadam-ebook/dp/B078NKFNDQ/
#apple - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1448620464
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My new book, Xtreme Sabotage, is now available for purchase. If you would like to get the ebook version of it, please click one of the following links:

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a not actually small example of how #google is yup you guessed it still finding ways to #enshittification search even more.

Just recently did a search (in the US) for Ravensburger - and in all of the search results on the first page NONE of the results were for their actual corporate website in Germany. Only their US website (and most results were stuff like Amazon links to buy puzzles or Lorcana.

If you didn't already know you wouldn't guess they are an old German company from the results

The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong.

It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.

https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/

#tech #politics #google #chile #china

Android 17: Bekannte Bugs und erste Lösungen

Google hat mit Android 17 hat allerlei Fehler bereinigt, aber neue eingebaut. Eine Übersicht bekannter Bugs und wie sich manche beheben lassen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Android-17-Bekannte-Bugs-und-erste-Loesungen-11340481.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#G #Android #Google #GooglePixel #IT #Smartphone #Updates #WLAN #news

UI development manager Daniel Curtis does a deep dive into Google's new official agent skills for Angular. Agent skills are instructions written in a human-readable text format and loaded by an llm on demand. Ideally agent skills allow llms to follow best practices while writing, refactoring, and reviewing your code, in a certain context.

"Angular's Official Agent Skills Helps AI Coding Tools Write Modern Angular"

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/angular-agent-skills/

#angular #ai #llms #foss #google #programming

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Black-and-white line-art illustration of a software development workspace. A laptop on a desk displays code and workflow connections, while a small robot assistant stands beside it holding a pointer. Above the laptop, a floating application settings window shows toggles, checkboxes, and interface controls connected by dotted lines, suggesting automation or AI-assisted software development. A potted succulent sits on the left, and a coffee mug rests near the laptop, creating a clean, modern workspace scene. Image designed and executed by DALL-E 3.

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. Would you walk out? #politics #news #Google

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

From Global News:
"A large cohort of Stanford University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Monday during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address."

"'Shout out to all the graduates who walked out today. To all the graduates who chose conscience rather than comfort, we thank you,' the statement reads.

The group wrote that it walked out in protest of Google’s hand in the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, saying it would not be lured by 'talk of the dollar' and condemning what it says are 'crimes of Google in collaborating with Israel, ICE and companies like Palantir.'"

https://globalnews.ca/news/11907485/stanford-students-walk-out-google-ceo-ai-protest-graduation/

#NoAI #Google

🚨 Google is now asking you to grant camera access and show your hands to prove you're a human?!

--> I am not a robot tests have officially gone to far.

Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣

#Google #verification #privacy

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Screenshot of a Reddit posted titled, "This is getting ridiculous" with a screenshot of Google's gesture with your hand verification system.

https://keepandroidopen.org

#Google's new requirement: starting September 2026, every #Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through @fdroidorg from to hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their own software.

Dozens walk out as Google boss addresses Stanford graduates

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx10gg2r2vo

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #ethics #corruption #ai #aislop #google

This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday regarding a new German court decision holding Google responsible for their AI Overviews misinformation, and the potential global impact of that decision. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yeah, it's finally happened. A court has directly and strongly pushed back against Google's ridiculous excuses about misinformation that spews from their AI. And while this is a ruling from a German court it is so incredibly well reasoned and written that it is very likely to have significant impact on thinking about these issues around the world, and so could ultimately influence other courts everywhere.

We've talked numerous times about AI hallucinations and misinformation, and this particular case involved Google's notorious AI Overviews. Recent studies have suggested that at Google search scale Google is spewing out hundreds of thousands of incorrect AI Overview answers per minute, tens of millions of inaccurate answers per hour. And Google has consistently tried to evade responsibility for these with disclaimers that "AI can make mistakes" and users should double-check the AI answers.

But pretty much everybody knows, and studies have confirmed, that almost nobody tries to verify those answers that Google presents in a very authoritative, "this is the truth" kind of way. I mean seriously, what's the point of getting an AI Overview answer and then having to go digging around researching to try figure out if it's accurate or not? You might as well have done the research yourself in the first place without having your time wasted by an unreliable AI answer that Google itself tells you not to trust!

Also, when Google provides links in their AI Overview answers that connect to the sites that supposedly relate to the answers, it seems that most of the time you can dig through those sites until the cows come home and be unable to find anything that relates to the Google AI Overview answers themselves.

The German court brilliantly notes all these points and various others. The ruling explains that Google isn't just pointing you at sites where you might find useful information related to your search -- as traditional Google search did for decades -- but rather is creating a wholly new authoritative-seeming answer, an answer that cannot be reasonably attributed to anyone but Google itself.

This kind of determination leads us directly into the kinds of arguments that I and others have long been making, that AI answers should not be exempt from the responsibilities that would come into play if those same kinds of authoritative sounding answers had been issued by a human being at the same Big Tech firm in response to user queries.

The kinds of legal protections in place to shield these firms from being liable for third-party content simply do not reasonably apply to first-party created content like AI Overview answers. And this goes far beyond AI Overviews of course, across the entire realm of Large Language Model AI including also AI chatbots, some of which we know have reportedly been implicated in providing advice involved in both murder and suicide cases. New nightmarish instances like these keep occurring, despite Big Tech claims that they're increasing associated safety protocols.

The German court decision holding Google responsible for AI Overview answers is preliminary and there will likely be appeals of course. But the actual reasoning of the decision is enormously solid and persuasive, and may well end up being the first significant crack in the "we don't care" excuse agenda of Google and the other Big Tech AI firms, irrespective of how this specific German court case proceeds.

And from this crack, perhaps we will start to see more moves to actually protect society from AI abuses rather than governments actively encouraging largely if not completely unregulated AI systems. It's going to be a tough slog, because as we know, many politicians in both parties are terrified of the financial and political power of the major Big Tech firms, and even when a politician will privately admit that, for example, they know a massive new data center is going to ruin a community that they represent, they may not have the courage to actually take a stance against it.

So whether or not we'll ever see Big Tech AI CEOs being held personally, criminally responsible for the worst abuses of their AIs -- imagine if you will CEOs being publicly perp walked in shackles to their new abodes in prisons -- at least holding the firms financially responsible for the damages done by their AI systems would be a step in the right direction.

And it appears that the court in Germany, that just effectively told Google to take their excuses for AI misinformation and stuff them, has finally moved the needle in a positive way. It's still a long, long path ahead, and with the untold hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into AI by Big Tech, the battle to protect society will be long and arduous. But perhaps that German court has now exposed a bit of light at the end of that very long tunnel. We shall see.

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#google #ai

KI in Suchmaschine: Google siegt im ersten Markenstreit über KI-Ergebnisse

Das Landgericht Berlin sieht in KI-generierten Übersichten keine Markenverletzung durch Google. Doch IT-Juristen kritisieren das zugrunde gelegte Nutzerbild.

https://www.heise.de/news/KI-in-Suchmaschine-Google-siegt-im-ersten-Markenstreit-ueber-KI-Ergebnisse-11334653.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Google #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Suchmaschine #Markenrecht #Wirtschaft #news

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

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Image of old Google with the title "How it started" and an image of the new Google with AI titled, "How it's going" and a text with an arrow pointing at Google's new AI search saying, "This is killing the open web"

⚠️ 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

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

#book #ya #youngadult #youngadulttoadult

Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#book #scifi

Journey Through the Video Game World

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#book #childrensbook #childrenstreasurehunt #treasurehuntnovel

The Treasure of Milky Lake

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My new book, Xtreme Sabotage, is now available for purchase. If you would like to get the ebook version of it, please click one of the following links:

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Universities have used draconian methods to suppress students' freedom of speech, but the kids can still find ways to express their support for Palestine.

Stanford grads chant and wave Palestinian flags as they walk out on Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai as he begins his commencement speech.

#Palestine #Stanford #Google #SiliconValley #SundarPichai

A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/