Big tech tries to water down US data privacy laws
Ordering politicians to let it do what it likes
Google and its industry allies are making a late bid to water down the first major data-privacy law in the U.S., seeking to carve out exemptions for digital advertising, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg and people familiar with the negotiations.
Android Q becomes Android 10
No more sweeties from Google
Android Q Beta which will be commercially known as Android 10 is out.
Google pays to make FTC investigation go away
Hey Google! Leave those kids' data alone.
Google will spend up to $200 million to make a Federal Trade Commission investigation into YouTube’s alleged violation of a children’s privacy law go away.
Big tech being investigated for antitrust
The US suddenly realises that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are not that nice
State attorneys in more than a dozen states are preparing to begin an antitrust investigation of the tech giants.
Cyberpunk 2077 coming to Google Stadia
Gets RTX ray-traced screenshots as well
At the Google's Gamescom 2019 Stadia Direct livestream, CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will be coming to Google's Stadia streaming service when it launches in April next year. We also got some new RTX ray traced screenshots from the game, courtesy of Nvidia.
Google wants to become greener
All the recycled plastic you can eat
Google is to neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.
New York Times seems to be supporting Facebook
Hides anti-Google ranters pro-Facebook bias
Apple’s favourite newspaper, the New York Times, has published anti-Google rants from those who represent Facebook.
Google finds five flaws in Apple software
But... but it is supposed to be perfect
Google researchers have shared details of five flaws in Apple's iMessage software that could make its devices vulnerable to attack.
Super private Android Q could do a lot better
Still tracks you and sells your soul to advertisers
The upcoming version of the Android operating system is supposed to take a strong focus on privacy, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes it could still do better.
Facebook and Google monitoring porn use
Data leak detected
Researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania who had nothing better to do looked at 22,484 porn sites and found that 93 per cent of them were leaking data to a third party.