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Image: Getty/MoMo Productions Google asked security researchers at NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of its new VPN by Google One, and the results have now been published. Security assessments like these can serve as a useful tool for understanding the relative security of the many different VPN services on the market. The Google One VPN apps for Android and iOS and its new Windows and macOS VPN apps stood up well to a security source code review by NCC Group, but although the… Source link

Image: Getty/MoMo Productions Google asked security researchers at NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of its new VPN by Google One, and the results have now been published. Security assessments like these are a useful tool when trying to understand the relative security of the many different VPN services on the market. The Google One VPN apps for Android and iOS and its new Windows and macOS VPN apps stood up well to a security source code review by NCC Group, but although the firm… Source link

Image: MS_studio/Shutterstock Google has shed more light on how it’s using private data from sensors on your Android phone to update its machine-learning features, such as Live Translate, without sending private data to its cloud servers.  Google last September introduced Live Caption, Now Playing and Smart Reply as features within Android’s Private Compute Core (PCC), which lives in an isolated virtual sandbox within Android 12 and onwards, shielding PCC and its features from the OS and… Source link

Image: MS_studio/Shutterstock Google has shed more light on how it’s using private data from sensors on your Android phone to update its machine-learning features, such as Live Translate, without sending private data to its cloud servers.  Google last September introduced Live Caption, Now Playing and Smart Reply as features within Android’s Private Compute Core (PCC), which lives in an isolated virtual sandbox within Android 12 and onwards, shielding PCC and its features from the OS and… Source link

Comment on this story Comment HONG KONG — U.S. tech giant Google is under increasing pressure by the Hong Kong government — and, by association, China — to bury in its search results a politically sensitive pro-democracy song that has been mistaken for the national anthem. The move shows the rising tensions between multinational tech giants and Chinese authorities as Beijing seeks to hide any lingering dissent from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that began in 2019. The Hong Kong… Source link

From the Philadelphia Phillies‘ shocking trip to the World Series to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, this year has had it’s fair share of headline-making stories. And with top stories comes curiosity from all across the globe. After trillions of inquiries, Google has released its “Year in Search.” Here’s what was trending in Philadelphia: Pickleball is America’s fastest growing sport with over 5 million players and counting. But what happens when the demand for… Source link

Summary Companies Law firms Genius’ breach case against Google dismissed based on copyright law Lyric site said decision could give big tech free pass to copy content (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the Biden administration to weigh in on song-lyric website Genius’ attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google’s alleged theft of its work. The justices are considering whether to hear ML Genius Holdings LLC’s bid to overturn a U.S. appeals court’s ruling that its case against Google LLC… Source link

The way you cancel a Google Drive storage subscription (also called Google One) will depend on how you signed up. If you signed up for Google One using your computer or Android device, you can cancel through the Google One website or app. If you subscribed using an iPhone or iPad, you’ll need to cancel using the Apple ID menu. … Source link

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts with a combined potential value of up to $9 billion to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program. JWCC is the successor to Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which attracted contracting controversy and was canceled last year in favor of a multi-cloud approach. Each of the four companies has been awarded a hybrid (firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials,… Source link

It’s Monday, and you know what that means? After today, there are only two more Mondays left in 2022. This is Matt Weinberger, Insider’s deputy editor of tech analysis, filling in once again for Jordan Parker Erb. She’ll be back in time to write tomorrow’s edition, so never fear. Last week was a big week for news, in a year that’s been full of big weeks for news — the FTC is suing to block Microsoft’s acquisition of video-game giant Activision Blizzard, Meta employees were reportedly Source link