Blockchain
Google allows NFTs into Play Store
Google has updated its app store policy, and now the NFTs can come out to Play...
domains
Google Domains is shutting down - just 14 months after GA
From .zip firestorm to .killedbygoogle
Cybersecurity
Why security pros are seething over Google’s new .zip domains
Google this week launched a new Top Level Domain of .zip and it has cybersecurity professionals worried. Here’s why. The way that modern browsers treat URLs – considering everything after @ as the host name, rather than the “user information” before it – means that it is easy to create a convincing
Featured
Opinion: The Big Hallucination
People are too credulous about AI outputs, and it’s about to get even more complicated.
Enterprise IT
Fastly wins Google "Oblivious HTTP Relay" contract ahead of third-party cookies death
Lightweight app-layer proxy protocol to power ads for billions of Chrome users
Cloud
Uber bites the cloud bullet after "reimagining" its infrastructure: Goodbye 100k+ servers
Oracle, Google are big winners...
Enterprise IT
Google unveils ChatGPT rival “Bard” – could put it in front of billions, as AI wars heat up
Don't bet against the company with 90%+ search engine market share.
Enterprise IT
After 20 years at Google, there were no flowers, no card, and no goodbye
Ruthless mechanistic efficiency rules in "Squid Game" firings...
Cybersecurity
Peach and OSV-Scanner give fresh, free, food for thought on security
Two new cybersecurity tools “OSV-Scanner” and “Peach” that landed this week deserve attention – whether you are a CISO, Blue Team, or just trying to tighten up your application development or cloud practices. OSV-Scanner was released under an Apache 2.0 licence by Google. Peach is an open framework from Wiz
Enterprise IT
Google shuts down Stadia: Technology “transcends” gaming
Google is shutting down its game streaming service Stadia after just 34 months. “It hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service” said Google Stadia VP and General Manager Phil Harrison. Google
Cloud
Google denies Iowa data centre explosion linked to global outage
“We are aware of an incident at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa."
Featured
Google, NHS count cost of heatwave IT outages – what happens next time?
"Research focuses too narrowly on health and building over other critical sectors."