The days of Google Talk are quickly coming to an end. An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: As the company announced today, the messaging service that allowed Gmail users to talk to each other since it launched in 2005,…
Privacy Advocates Vow to Fight Rollback of Broadband Privacy Rules
Privacy activists say rolling-back ISP privacy rules means health, financial and browsing habits can be used, shared and sold to the highest bidder without consent.
Rise of the Twitterbots increases pressure on Twitter chief Dorsey
‘Up to 15%’ of Twitter accounts are bots posting spam, propaganda and fake news and driving away advertisers and investors – but social media firms are fighting back
News in brief: bid to upgrade Pluto; Nest cameras vulnerable to attack; Google rolls out location sharing
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LastPass Fixes Three Password Theft Vulnerabilities
LastPass has fixed three bugs in the password manager discovered by Google research Tavis Ormandy in the last 24 hours.
Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections
Jigsaw and Google said they would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections.
News in brief: carry-on gadgets ban from some countries; Android O preview lands; Hawking to space
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Android O First Developer Preview Featuring Notification Channels, Background Limits Now Available
A year after Google released the Android N Developer Preview, the company has made available the developer preview of the next major version of Android, “Android O.” You will not want to put it on your primary Android smartphone as…
Sweeping dragnet search warrant given the go-ahead by judge
Google says it will always ‘push back’ when asked for ‘excessively broad requests for data’
Google's New Campus Will Open Its Restaurants To The Public
Google’s new 18-acre campus will feature a 595,000-square foot building for 2,400 employees, most of them engineers — and its bottom floor will be open to the public. An anonymous reader quotes Recode: People will be able to walk through…