Wired

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government

More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government ...
HotHardware

Google Brings Quantum-Hardened HTTPS To Chrome In Major Security Upgrade

Traditional cryptographic signatures that underpin HTTPS can be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer using algorithms like Shor's, threatening the trust model of secure connections. To ...
Wired

Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files

Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, ...
ExtremeTech

Google Chrome Adds Split View, PDF Annotations, and 'Save to Drive'

Last week, Google announced new Chrome features: Split View, PDF Annotations, and Save to Google Drive. Split View lets you place two tabs side by side without managing a whole second window. This ...
Android

Google Is Rolling Out Android File Backups, But Don't Get Too Excited Just Yet

Google is rolling out a new local file backup feature for Android as part of the February Google Play System update. The feature adds a dedicated backup option for your Downloads folder, saving static ...
9to5google

Android getting new ‘local file backup’ feature via Google Drive

According to the latest release notes for Google Play services, Android phones will be getting a “new local file backup feature” powered by Google Drive. “Local file backup” sounds like a ...
Search Engine Land

Google lists Googlebot file limits for crawling

Google has updated two of its help documents to explain the limits of Googlebot when it crawls. Specifically, how much Googlebot can consume by filetype and format. The limits. The limits, some of ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Googlebot File Limit Is 15MB But 64MB For PDF & 2MB For Other File Types

We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google updated some of its help documentation to clarify that it will crawl the first 64MB of a PDF file and ...
Reuters

US files appeal in Google search antitrust case

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. government and a majority of U.S. states on Tuesday will appeal the outcome of a landmark antitrust case against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google, ...
The New York Times

Here’s What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled that this would be the last major release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. By Ashley Ahn The Department of Justice on Friday released the largest ...
Neowin

You can now edit password-protected MS Office files in Google Drive, here's how

In a move to improve interoperability between Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, Google has baked a new feature that lets you edit Microsoft Office files locked behind a password with minimal ...
Austin American-Statesman

Are you eligible for the $700 million Google settlement? See how to file a claim

Texans now have the opportunity to claim part of a $700 million settlement with Google. According to a news release, Attorney General Ken Paxton and other attorneys general from U.S. states and ...