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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam  The Register Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams  The Register Source link

Google on Monday donated $1 million to the Rust Foundation specifically to improve interoperability between the language and C++. C++, a popular general purpose programming language, has arguably fallen out of fashion due to concerns over safety. Memory safety errors are the source of the majority of vulnerabilities for Google and Microsoft, and this has led to evangelism for memory-safe Rust and a scarlet letter for C/C++. “Based on historical vulnerability density statistics,… Source link

Mozilla has decided to be more vocal about the ways in which Apple, Google, and Microsoft set technical requirements that have hindered development of its Firefox web browser, and therefore harmed competition. Many of the competitive barriers have been discussed for years – in technical circles, and behind closed doors with regulators. During those years, Firefox’s 30 percent of the global browser market share slipped steadily. Today, just over three percent of browser users… Source link

Updated No, it’s not just you – search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO farms and affiliate link sites, a group of German researchers has concluded.  Der boffinß made their determination after spending a year reviewing results for 7,392 product review queries on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, which they said is the first systematic review into the question of worsening search engine result quality.  After… Source link

Allegations that Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed using stolen designs are being put to the test as a jury trial brought against the search giant by Singular Computing kicks off this week. Google is accused of infringing patents held by Singular and developed by computer scientist Joseph Bates, an academic turned startup founder. According to his LinkedIn profile, Bates held research and teaching positions at Cornell, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Rockford’s Bing Liu will highlight 2nd Annual 815HORTS film festival  Rockford Register Star Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle  The Register Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard  The Register Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Co-founder of Yandex – Russia’s Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine  The Register Source link