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Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Security researchers have uncovered a hack that allows cyber criminals to gain access to people’s Google accounts without needing their passwords. Analysis from security firm CloudSEK found that a dangerous form of malware uses third-party cookies to gain unauthorised access to people’s private data, and is already being actively tested by hacking groups. The exploit was… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Civil liberties advocates are mounting a new challenge to the use by police of Google search data for help solving criminal cases, as the practice draws greater scrutiny nationwide. Most Read from Bloomberg After a Pennsylvania woman was raped in 2016, police submitted a search warrant to Alphabet’s Google for information about users who had typed the victim’s name or address into the search engine in the week leading up to the attack, according to court papers. Google… Source link

From pretty much the very beginning, the web has been fueled by ads. And those ads have been finding their way to relevant users via cookies — those are little bits of code that websites can place on your computer so advertisers can basically follow you around online. And from pretty much the very beginning, privacy advocates have complained that cookies are a privacy nightmare.   This week, Google started its project to phase out third-party cookies on… Source link

Google is seemingly working on developing a more advanced version of its Bard chatbot. Launched in May 2023, Google’s conversational AI bot was designed to be a competitor to ChatGPT but fell flat with many users compared to OpenAI’s model. The company shared in December that it had a new Large language… Source link

Google has lost another key person working on its augmented reality devices, Business Insider has learned. Paul Greco, a vice president of engineering at Google, departed the company this week for a new opportunity, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Google spokesperson confirmed Greco’s departure but declined to comment on other details in this story. Greco was formerly the chief technology officer of once-highflying startup Magic Leap. He joined Google in 2021 and initially… Source link

CNN  —  Google’s refusal to bargain with unionized YouTube Music workers is illegal, a Wednesday ruling from the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found. After a group of Texas-based contract workers for YouTube Music unanimously voted last April to join the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), Google refused to bargain over… Source link

Google’s Bard Advanced chatbot — a more powerful version of the service that competes with Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT — might not be free to use, according to details spotted by a developer. Google does not have a very good record when it comes to keeping details of its upcoming products a secret, and now some additional details related the advanced version of its Bard AI chatbot have surfaced online that suggest users will have to eventually pay to access Bard… Source link

users SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Have you tried turning it off and on again? That was the go-to advice offered by the character of Roy, a long-suffering support technician, in the cult TV sitcom The IT Crowd, which ended in 2013. Now, Google is suggesting the same advice in 2024 for Gmail users following reports of a password change-resistant attack being exploited by information-stealing attackers. Attackers Log Into Google Accounts Again And Again In an adversary Source link

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Google’s refusal to bargain with a group of unionized YouTube Music contractors is illegal. The three-member panel decided that despite denials by Google, which owns YouTube Music, and its subcontractor Cognizant, the two are, in fact, joint employers of the Austin-based workers who perform data-related tasks, like finding errors in its charts algorithm.  “At all material times, Respondents Cognizant and Google have codetermined the essential… Source link

Google appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will be available through a paid subscription to Google One, as shared by developer Dylan Roussel on X (formerly Twitter). Bard Advanced seems to be powered by Gemini Ultra, the top tier of Google’s newly announced large language model (LLM), according to Roussel. That’s an upgrade over the current version of Bard, which runs the midtier Gemini Pro. One of the screenshots Roussel shared describes… Source link