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[Link] Google Features YTS and 123movies as “Best Movie Websites”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Google's algorithms have made life a lot more convenient for many people, but they sometimes lead to peculiar results. When searching for the best movie websites, the search engine features pirate sites including YTS and 123movies in related searches.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] Google loses appeal, faces €2.4 billion shopping antitrust fine
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Google and the European Union are still battling it out over various product-bundling schemes across Google's empire. The latest news has to do with Google Shopping's integration with Google Search.
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[Link] Top Google Result for NFT Marketplace OpenSea Was a Phishing Site
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, if you Googled “OpenSea” looking for the eponymous NFT marketplace, you might have found what looks like the site right at the top of Google.
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[Link] There will never be another Pokémon Go
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Creating a follow-up to Pokémon Go is an impossible task. The game was the kind of breakout success that had never been seen before — and might never happen again; it’s hard to overstate how the game was absolutely everywhere when it first launched in 2016.
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[Link] Anti-Piracy Outfits Still Target Pirate Sites That Shut Down Years Ago
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Pirate sites such as ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, and isoHunt disappeared from the web more than half a decade ago. Intriguingly, that hasn't stopped some anti-piracy groups from going after them, as they're still asking Google to remove 'infringing' URLs of these sites.
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[Link] Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the latest government regulatory body to take issue with how Google does business.
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[Link] Opinion: Dear Facebook: No one cares about Oculus; give us Instagram revenue!
Read: 26/10/2021 www.marketwatch.com
Facebook goes the Alphabet route — giving investors numbers on a young business instead of mature operations, while renaming the company — but can we just skip to the part where the SEC makes Zuckerberg tell investors what they actually want to know? Facebook Inc.
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[Link] Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.
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[Link] Google countersues Epic Games for lost Play Store money
Read: 17/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases.
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[Link] Google Opposes ‘Sweeping’ Popcorn Time Piracy Blocking Request
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has asked a Virginia federal court for permission to formally oppose the request for a far-reaching anti-piracy injunction. The contested anti-piracy measures, aimed at shutting down a popular Popcorn Time app, are proposed by a group of filmmakers.
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[Link] China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says
Read: 12/10/2021 www.reuters.com
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
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[Link] Big changes coming to Chrome may kill ad blockers
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
In a recent blog post, Chrome extensions and web store product manager David Li announced that extensions to Google's browser built using the Manifest V2 specification will no longer be accepted on the web store as of January 17, 2022.
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[Link] YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for ‘Violence’
Read: 29/9/2021 www.vice.com
You probably don’t know Paul Weedon by name, but you’ve probably seen him get punched in the face.
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[Link] Google Locks Historian’s Account Over Terrorism Research Videos
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Ed Francis studies the evolution of military technology over at his YouTube channel, Armoured Archives. But this week, Francis says five years’ worth of research stored on Google Drive has become inaccessible thanks to Google’s automated error.
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[Link] Ireland fails to enforce EU law against Big Tech
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Ireland is failing to apply the EU’s privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98 percent of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved by its regulator.
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[Link] Massive Adult Site ‘Rule34’ Prepares Legal Action to Fight Bogus Homepage Delisting
Read: 11/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Huge adult site 'Rule34' is preparing legal action to have its homepage restored to Google's indexes. The site's operator says that he believes he's been targeted with one or more bogus takedown demands.
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[Link] Chrome will now let you keep searching without hitting the back button
Read: 2/9/2021 www.zdnet.com
Google has announced three new experiments to play with in Chrome beta, with the first allowing users to keep searching without needing to hit the back button.
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[Link] Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan.
Read: 26/8/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they’re fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum.
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[Link] YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to publicly clarify their rules on the group that is in control of Afghanistan. After U.S.
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[Link] Fake ‘U.S. Copyright Office’ Sends Takedown Notices to Google
Read: 24/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Google has received several takedown notices that claim to come from the 'U.S. Copyright Office', requesting the search engine to remove 'problematic' URLs.
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[Link] TorrentFreak News Article Targeted by Dubious ‘DRM Circumvention Complaint
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The American Society of Composers has asked Google to remove hundreds of URLs from its search results. The flagged pages are accused of 'circumventing DRM' but the anti-piracy outfit casts its net too wide.
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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy
Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com
Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.
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[Link] Amazon, Facebook and Google Paid Millions to Pirates, Study Finds
Read: 17/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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[Link] All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theregister.com
Until February this year, Amazon Route53's DNS service offered largely unappreciated network eavesdropping capabilities. And this undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider.
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[Link] Google billionaire granted entry to New Zealand despite border closure
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Google co-founder and sixth-richest man in the world Larry Page has become a New Zealand resident, stoking debate over whether he bought his way into the country, which is closed to visitors.
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[Link] Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1
Read: 8/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Ukrainian TV channel TRK has sent a rather bizarre takedown request to Google. The company's anti-piracy partner Vindex asked the search engine to remove a search result that points to 127.0.0.1.
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[Link] You should download the new Google Drive for Desktop
Read: 8/8/2021 www.popsci.com
You might be familiar with Google Drive from its web interface or its mobile apps. But desktop software is available as well, allowing you to seamlessly sync files stored in your Google Drive with the file system on your Windows or macOS computer.
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[Link] Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Google maps street view form? Yes
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Created by Nassim’s Software, the interface will be very familiar for those of you who mess with Google maps. It has minimalistic zoom options, as well as a full overview of the world of Hyrule. But it also has a secret weapon compared to many other fan-created maps: street view.
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[Link] Sky News Australia to face Senate inquiry after week-long YouTube suspension
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sky News Australia will face a Senate inquiry next week after the broadcaster was suspended for seven days for posting numerous videos which violated YouTube’s Covid medical misinformation policies.
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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.
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[Link] World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The world governing body for kung fu is using copyright law to identify a user who allegedly made defamatory remarks about the organization on YouTube.
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[Link] The Pegasus Project Shows Tech Giants Need to Do More to Keep Users Safe
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm about industrialized insecurity for years, but the Pegasus Project has to be a line in the sand. As you might have noticed, this newsletter was dormant for the last 6 months.
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[Link] Pokémon no go? Players revolt as Niantic sends them back outside
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The developer of Pokémon Go is facing a player revolt after rolling back safety measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic last year. Niantic, the Google subsidiary which released the smash hit mobile game in 2016, had reacted to the onset of the pandemic by tweaking how its games work.
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[Link] Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Reddit downloader bot SaveVideo took itself offline this week following what appeared to be a copyright and trademark complaint from Reddit. However, it later transpired that the main document was an elaborate fake designed to sow confusion.
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[Link] Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Google's pending Play Store policy changes are bringing various privacy improvements – but also include a security enhancement and disclosure requirement that deserve mention. First, there's a specific ban on the deceptive use of interpreted languages like JavaScript, Python, and Lua.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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[Link] Beta-Testing Car Software Sounds Like a Bad Idea
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
If you drive a car that supports Android Auto, Google has opened a beta tester program to try the new features before everyone else. Once you opt into the beta, you can help Google test the features with your specific device and vehicle and share feedback to help the company improve the product.
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[Link] Google Maps Now Helps You Avoid People On The Train
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively.
[Link] Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data
Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Why You Should Switch From Android Messages Given Security Concerns
Read: 18/7/2021 www.forbes.com
Somewhat ironically, , Google seems yet again to have slipped by unnoticed. Now, hundreds of millions of Android users need to decide who they trust with their data, given recent harvesting revelations. Android Messages is trying to fix the major security holes in its architecture.
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[Link] Google buys photographer's shot of seagull eating a chip
Read: 14/6/2021 www.bbc.com
Amateur photographer Hannah Huxford, from Cleethorpes, took the picture in 2011 on an iPhone 3G in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Now the image is to feature on billboards and online adverts for the tech giant's search service.
[Link] 4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google
Read: 27/4/2021 arstechnica.com
CNBC reports that 4chan founder Chris Poole no longer works at Google. Google hired Poole in 2016 to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+. Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest.
[Link] Terraria creator cancels Stadia port after being locked out of Google account
Read: 10/2/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks has announced that the game will no longer be coming to Google Stadia after his Google account was disabled.
[Link] Google Maps will soon show COVID vaccine locations
Read: 29/1/2021 arstechnica.com
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine means a ton of people are soon going to be looking for vaccination sites.
[Link] Google threatens to leave Australia – but its poker face is slipping
Read: 25/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
The biggest companies in technology love an ultimatum but rarely do they spell out their threats.
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