@sebsauvage
Google mettait déjà le nez dans les photos 
... Il y avait ce truc dans Google photo ( Google sphère de mémoire?!) qui détecter les dessins animés, les documents, animaux, les plantes... Comme un autocaption dans la galerie image. On parle de quelque chose comme 2012 déjà.
Trop tard les donnés ont déjà étés refilées aux IA d'aujourd'hui. Peut-être es-ce trop tard pour s'en inquiéter ? :s
#google
@arstechnica - the Pixel line's most appealing feature is certainly not surveillance tech like Gemini, but rather that you can flash a variety of privacy respecting Android ROMs over what Google ships.
#google #privacy #calyxos #grapheneos #eos #iode #pixel #smartphones #android
Memory safety for web fonts: Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make font processing in Chrome secure for all users. Skifra takes advantage of Rust's memory safety, and lets us iterate faster on font technology improvements in Chrome. Moving from FreeType to Skrifa allows Google to be both agile and fearless when making changes to our font code. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts Does anyone know how Firefox handles web fonts security?
In the wake of #unplugTrump, I asked #Distrowatch which #Linux distributions originated in #Europe. I confess that I left out the eastern countries. There were only six results, five of which were based on #Debian. Whether #Arch #Debian or #Fedora, how strong or extensive is the American influence anyway? Isn't it more about individual software or services themselves, such as #Firefox or #Google? #Microsoft and its #Windows should of course be banned in principle. But as an #ArchLinux user, should I change my system because of this?
How is it - "Google has agreed to pay" but "rejected the allegations made against it"?
Or they know they are guilty and that's the reason why they are paying, or they are paying even if they are innocent, which is not right.
Google said it will acquire cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion, citing the need for greater cybersecurity capacity as artificial intelligence embeds itself in technology infrastructure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/19/tech/google-cybersecurity-company-wiz/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #google #ai #acquisitions #cybersecurity
Users report that Google's new AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is exceptionally good at removing watermarks. Here's why it isn't a major shift.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/18/why-ai-watermark-removal-is-not-a-game-changer/
#Google realizează cea mai mare achiziție din istoria sa. A încheiat un acord pentru preluarea start-up-ului 
#Israelian de 
#securitateCibernetică Wiz, în schimbul a 32 de miliarde 
#USD.
#US / Discredited pro-Israel organization targets Wikipedia while ignoring its own documented bias
The ADL published a report titled "Editing for Hate" claiming 30 "bad faith" Wikipedia editors conducted a "coordinated campaign" to insert anti-Israel and pro-Hamas narratives. The ADL is demanding that #Google and other #AI companies refrain from using Wikipedia as a source until Wikipedia takes steps to combat what the ADL considers bias in its coverage of Israel.
Background
Right-wing figures are mounting a coordinated assault on #Wikipedia following #trump's reelection, with #musk calling to "defund" the site after it documented his Nazi-style salute at the inauguration, tech executives like #Perplexity's CEO demanding an "unbiased" alternative, the Heritage Foundation planning to use facial recognition and hacked data to "identify and target" volunteer editors, and the New York Post publishing an editorial citing a "bombshell report" claiming Wikipedia equates "true" with "left wing" - all part of what appears to be a strategic campaign to intimidate and undermine one of the internet's last major platforms for transparent, collaborative information that remains free from paywalls and corporate influence.
The infamously unreliable (as per the Wikipedia itself) pro-Israel Islamophobic organization whose CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, isn't bothered at all by Musk's sieg heil, has been accused of:
[…] Even though the ADL is integrated into community work on a range of issues, it has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence. More disturbing, it has often conducted those attacks under the banner of “civil rights.” This largely unpublicized history has come increasingly to light as activists work to make sense of the ADL’s role in condemning the Movement for Black Lives, Palestinian rights organizing, and Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, among others.
The #Wikimedia Foundation responded that they found the ADL report "flawed" with "troubling conclusions that are not supported by the Anti-Defamation League's data":
[…] “The values of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation reflect our commitment to integrity and accuracy, and we categorically condemn antisemitism and all forms of hate. Though our preliminary review of this report finds troubling and flawed conclusions that are not supported by the Anti-Defamation League's data, we are currently undertaking a more thorough and detailed analysis. It is unfortunate that we were not asked to provide context that might have helped allay some of the concerns raised,”
Google’s parent company has announced its largest-ever acquisition, entering into a $32B deal to buy cybersecurity firm Wiz. @theverge has more. #Google #Alphabet #Cybersecurity #Wiz #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/Tc8Isj
Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/google-is-buying-wiz-for-32b-to-beef-up-in-cloud-security/
Let's break up the #Google monopoly
Now is the time to choose a #private browser because Google must sell #Chrome 
Check the story: https://tuta.com/blog/google-must-sell-chrome-in-antitrust-case
Google's crackdown on data scrapers triggered immediate disruptions across the marketing landscape, particularly for organizations whose business models depend on SEO. The move represents the latest evolution in the ongoing battle between major websites and data scrapers. Read more at @TechRadar. #Google #SEO #DataScraping #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/F5M7-d
This now banned dragnet surveillance tactic was used to great effect in Seattle for the most petty of reasons.... there was a protest at the Police Union building.
Little to no property damage or other harm was reported (other than the cops beating ppl of course) none the less the fucking FBI built a case entirely on dragnet phone spying tools fit for a Tom Clancy novel.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack
#google has finally admitted that it is abandoning #assistant when it has been obvious for the last year or so they already had. Responses and actions had gotten so bad that I have replaced most of the audio units with old Bluetooth speakers and #Googlehome with #homeassistant .
Detaching from US systems, 12/x
Getting rid of SaaS services, and in particular the more advanced US-based ones, is going to be hard. A large percentage organizations in Finland and elsewhere in Europe depend on Microsoft 365 for example. Development companies tend to use the Atlassian suite and Slack. Some depend on Google Workspace. And there are many others we use daily.
