Could kill its search business

A new AI chatbot, ChatGPT could be in a position to kill off Google's lucrative search business.

Saves on court cases later 

The Pentagon is divvying up $9 billion in cloud contracts between Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon, presumably to avoid one of the megatech companies getting offended and suing.

Including on YouTube where it invented flat earth theory

Google has explained how its fact-checking initiatives will work soon in its bid to stop fake news and science. This will apply to YouTube which boffins have previously claimed was responsible for the return to popularity of flat earth theory.

Wants to power its cloud and offices

Google has signed an offshore wind energy deal to power its UK offices and cloud regions with carbon-free energy by 2030.

Apparently no one noticed before

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after its study found Apple and Google constitute a duopoly that controls the mobile ecosystem.

Quantum cats no longer just for boffins

More cash is starting to flow into tquantum computing , turning academic research at MIT and Harvard labs into startups, according to the Boston Globe.

Microsoft warning

Software King of the World Microsoft has warned that a Google Ads campaign is distributing compromise payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware.

Misled its users saying they have turned location tracking off

Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million settlement to 40 US states over a location tracking dispute.

C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift never forget 

The National Security Agency (NSA) wants people to move to memory safe programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, or Swift.

A 27 percent drop in profits

Google's third quarter 2022 earnings drop by 27 percent drop in profits compared to last year, with weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue.