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Google Halts News Snippets For French Users

Controversial European copyright law results in French users losing the ability to view Google news snippets

5 years ago

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For IE

Emergency patch for Internet Explorer to stop attackers hijacking the web browser

5 years ago

Google Wins Significant Victory In ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Case

Victory against censorship? Google wins landmark ruling from Europe's top court over right to be forgotten case

5 years ago

Google Changes Terms For Virtual Assistant Transcripts

Company to require users to reconfirm if they want to allow humans to listen to Assistant recordings, following privacy row

5 years ago

Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Breakthrough

'Sycamore' quantum computer successfully carries out a task the fastest conventional supercomputer would take 10,000 years to complete

5 years ago

Google To Spend Billions On European Data Centres

CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is to spend an additional 3 billion euros (£2.6bn) on European data centres

5 years ago

Google Completes Integration of DeepMind Health

NHS Trusts agree to allow Google to process NHS data, as DeepMind Health completes integration

5 years ago

Microsoft President Calls For US To End Huawei Ban

US national security will not be impacted if Huawei is able to use Microsoft's OS and software, says Brad Smith

5 years ago

Google Broadens Scope Of Anthos Hybrid Cloud Management Platform

New features include Services Mesh microservices management and Cloud Run for running fully managed applications in serverless environments

5 years ago

EU ‘Prepared’ To Push Ahead With Digital Tax

If global plans fail to move ahead, new Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni says he will propose EU-wide tax targeting…

5 years ago

Google To Pay France $1 Billion To Settle Tax Dispute

Alleged fiscal fraud settlement sees Google pay France 500m euro penalty and 465m euro in tax

5 years ago

Google Follows Firefox Lead With Chrome DoH Test

Google confirms it will test DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Chrome 78, days after Mozilla makes Firefox announcement

5 years ago

48 US States Open Google Anti-trust Probe

Google is facing an unprecedented anti-trust investigation from nearly all US states and territories that make up the United States

5 years ago

Apple Hits Back At Google Over iPhone Hack Report

Fight, fight. Google security researchers overstated the level of threat to iPhone users, Apple alleges

5 years ago

Google Facing Data Collection And Privacy Probe – Report

Attorney generals from more than 30 US states are readying anti-trust investigation of Alphabet's Google unit

5 years ago

Google To Pay Up To £165m Fine For YouTube Children’s Privacy Violations

Google's settlement with the FTC to pay $150m to $200m fine was criticised as too low and as 'effectively rewarding'…

5 years ago

Google Warns Of ‘Sustained Effort’ To Hack Apple iPhones

Google's Project Zero warns of a 'sustained effort' to hack iPhones over past two years, via poisoned websites

5 years ago

Pacific Undersea Cable Faces National Security Concerns

Undersea cable funded by Google and Facebook faces DoJ national security concerns over a Chinese investor

5 years ago

Former Uber Head Charged With Trade Secret Theft

Anthony Levandowski, former head of Uber’s self-driving program, has been charged with theft of trade secrets

5 years ago

Google To Move Pixel Smartphone Production Out Of China

Trade war escalation. Search engine giant set to shift production of Pixel smartphones from China to Vietnam

5 years ago

Google Faces EU Antitrust Investigation For Job Search Tool

EU competition boss confirms investigation of Google job search tool after complaints from rivals

5 years ago

Android 10 To Arrive Next Week

Google support staff let slip the release date for Android 10, previously known as Android Q

5 years ago

Google Announces End Of Dessert Names For Android

No more internal codenames like Jellybean, Lollipop or Marshmellow for Android releases, Google confirms

5 years ago

Deepmind Co-founder Takes Leave Of Absence

Co-founder of Google's AI division takes extended leave of absence, by mutual agreement

5 years ago

Mozilla, Google, Apple To Block Kazakhstan Surveillance

Tech giants take action against Kazakh government attempt to spy on all surfing and browsing in that country

5 years ago

US Tech Giants Testify Against French Digital Tax

Tax approved in July would disproportionately target US tech firms and would create a burden for consumers and enterprises, opponents…

5 years ago

Adware Hidden In Play Store Apps Infects 8 Million Users

Malware found in 85 apps posing as games or photography utilities displays full-screen ads and takes 'unique' steps to avoid…

5 years ago

Google Shuts Down Android Data Programme ‘Over Regulatory Fears’

Mobile Network Insights service provided aggregated, anonymised user data to mobile operators to help them spot network weaknesses

5 years ago

FTC Boss Ready To Breakup Big Tech Firms

US FTC boss admits he is prepared to break up big name tech firms amid anti-competitive investigation

5 years ago

Russia Issues Election Protest Warning To Google

As protests continue in Moscow, Russian regulator warns to Google stop 'advertising' protests on YouTube

5 years ago