An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Google engineers are working on an improved version of the reCAPTCHA system that uses a computer algorithm to distinguish between automated bots and real humans, and requires no user interaction at all….
Google Debuts Continuous Fuzzer for Open Source Software
A new Google program OSS-Fuzz is aimed at continuously fuzzing open source software and has already detected over 150 bugs.
Dirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin
Today’s Android Security Bulletin included a patch for the Dirty Cow vulnerability, a seven-year-old Linux bug that had yet to be patched by Google.
Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass
Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager that could have allowed for the bypass of privileges in Google’s Chrome browser.
Morgan Stanley: Pixel Phone Will Generate Google Almost $4 Billion In Revenue Next Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: With initial Pixel pre-orders exceeding expectations and promising activation numbers from Verizon, Google is on track to sell three million phones with revenues of $2 billion in 2016. The Morgan Stanley estimate…
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps: At some point yesterday, Donald Trump’s Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for “Trump Tower” revealed a pin for…
Google secures five-year access to health data of 1.6m people
Privacy campaigners raise fears about transparency and explicit consent as health service shares patient data
Fake news still rattling cages, from Facebook to Google to China
Chrome extension cobbled together by students offers at least one way to tackle ‘fake news’ problems
Is Google's AI-Driven Image-Resizing Algorithm Dishonest?
The Stack reports on Google’s “new research into upscaling low-resolution images using machine learning to ‘fill in’ the missing details,” arguing this is “a questionable stance…continuing to propagate the idea that images contain some kind of abstract ‘DNA’, and that…
Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56
Google released its final SHA-1 deprecation deadlines, and crypto services provider Venafi said that 35 percent of the web is still running weak SHA-1 certificates.