Below its home page’s search bar, Google is now warning everyone in Australia ominously that “The way Aussies search every day on Google is at risk from new Government regulation.” For more emphasis, Google even added the “hazard sign” symbol — a yellow triangle with an exclamation point, reports Gizmodo. “And in case you missed that, the website has also added…
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Cringely Predicts the U.S. Can’t Stop WeChat
An anonymous reader quotes long-time technology pundit Robert Cringely:
Forty-five days from now, we’re told, President Trump will shut down TikTok and WeChat. TikTok, maybe, but WeChat? Impossible… Trump has a chance of taking down TikTok, the short form video sharing site, because that service is dependent on advertising. He can force the app out of U.S. app stores (though not out…
Decades-Old Email Flaws Could Let Attackers Mask Their Identities
At the Black Hat security conference on Thursday, researchers will present “darn subtle” flaws in industry-wide protections used to ensure that emails come from the address they claim to. From a report: The study looked at the big three protocols used in email sender authentication — Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and…
GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: We all have trouble with our email sometimes. We don’t typically get to harangue the CEO of Google about why, say, Dad’s Gmail is acting up, though. You have to be a member of Congress to pull that. Rep. Greg Steube, Republican from Florida, went there during Wednesday’s high-profile congressional hearing about…
Google Keeps Tabs on Usage of Rival Android Apps To Develop Competitors
An internal program at Google known as “Android Lockbox” can give the company’s employees access to information about how Android users interact with popular, non-Google apps and services, according to a new report in The Information. The Verge: The program, which works via Google Mobile Services, means that employees can reportedly see “sensitive” data about other apps, including how often they’re…
Tesla Accuses Rivian of Poaching Employees, Stealing Secrets
According to a new lawsuit first reported by Bloomberg, Tesla alleges that four of its former workers took highly sensitive proprietary information as they left to work for the rival EV startup Rivian. The Verge reports: Tesla even claims Rivian is “knowingly encouraging” this behavior, and it is seeking unspecified punitive damages for what it alleges is “despicable, wanton, oppressive, willful,…
Gmail Is About To Start Testing Verification-Like Logos For Email
One of the biggest announcements made in Google’s recent announcement of security enhancements for G Suite services is that authenticated logos are coming for emails from participating companies. Engadget reports: Last year Google announced it joined the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) group, which is pushing an email spec that adds brand logos to authenticated emails. In practice it seems…
Deepfake Used To Attack Activist Couple Shows New Disinformation Frontier
An anonymous reader shares a report: Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism…
Google Takes on Zoom and Slack By Bundling Video Calls and Chat Into Gmail for Business Users
Google is making its popular Gmail app more of a productivity powerhouse. From a report: The Alphabet subsidiary is incorporating more applications into the business version of Gmail so that users don’t need to switch to other apps or browser tabs, it could help keep employees satisfied with the company’s business software and not want to adopt alternative services, such as…
WSJ: ‘Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers’
The Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist just published an article urging readers to “quit Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers.” It begins with the reporter pretending to break up with Chrome, adding “I’d say I’ll remember the good times — your speed, your superb handling of Gmail — but your RAM hoovering, battery draining and privacy disregarding…