Security Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike’s plans for consistent names across the industry
ON-PREM Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Legal Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine €890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives
AI AND ML Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud
PAAS AND IAAS Google Cloud is killing it It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
columnists Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Which way to the Land of the Free again?
Off-prem Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
PASS and iaas Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
software EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids The Chocolate Factory is not amused
SECURITY Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist Attested TLS: the handshake that can't prove who's on the other end
Cybercrime Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway Left hand, meet right hand
AI AND ML AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Applications UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties
Legal Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment
AI and ML How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge
AI AND ML Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing
Databases The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything 'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us
On-PREM 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute
Security Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win … again
PERSONAL TECH Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing
RESEARCH PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens
Ai and ml Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences Hush. children, what's that sound? Has the flood gates' key been found?
Security Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
ai and ml Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory
SECURITY Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery
ai + ml It's do or die for Apple AI WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'
cyber-crime If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
Legal Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results
off prem Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
Legal Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits
cyber-crime CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days
AI + ML Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI Google Search used to direct users to websites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
DevOps Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill
Off-Prem Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot
AI + ML Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys
Applications Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum
AI + ML Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers
Databases Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
AI + ML Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot
Devops Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets
Personal Tech Google sidles up to unsuspecting users, asks for their number You may only get 5GB of storage instead of 15GB if you don't share your digits with the Chocolate Factory
Personal Tech Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere
AI + ML Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks
aI + mL Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
AI Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
AI + ML Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions' But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner
Cyber-crime Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers
Cybersecurity Month Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it
AI + ML Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries
Off-Prem UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization
Cybersecurity Month Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10
Cybersecurity Month Google declares AI bug hunting season open, sets a $30K max reward Jailbreaks, direct prompt injection not allowed
Cybersecurity Month Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projects
Cybersecurity Month Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI 'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it'
AI + ML Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too
AI + ML Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period
SaaS To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling
Databases Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream
Legal Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers They would say that, wouldn’t they?
OSes Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies
Software Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in
Networks Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help punters
Legal Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers It's all Biden's fault, Chocolate Factory claims
Research Google warns China-linked spies lurking in 'numerous' enterprises Mandiant CTO anticipates 'hearing about this campaign for the next one to two years'
Devops Google-sponsored DORA report reframes AI as central to software development Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report
AI + ML AI gone rogue: Models may try to stop people from shutting them down, Google warns Misalignment risk? That's an area for future study
Patches OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes Radware says flaw enabled hidden email prompts to trick Deep Research agent into exfiltrating sensitive data
AI + ML Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?
Patches Google pushes emergency patch for Chrome 0-day – check your browser version now Sixth such Chrome flaw this year spotted by the Chocolate Factory, already in play
SaaS UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment
Research Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware
Cyber-crime Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops Talk about an inside job
AI + ML Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch
Off-Prem Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish
AI + ML It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI Like a snake eating its own tail
Security Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch
Legal France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission
Legal Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI
Public Sector FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED
AI + ML Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden
Cyber-crime Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in 'widespread campaign'
Security Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia
AI + ML Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material
Applications Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates
Security Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us
Cloud Infrastructure Month Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges
AI + ML Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection
Public Sector Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!
AI + ML Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations But the free AI Mode itself can now take your history into account
Cyber-crime Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances
Cloud Infrastructure Month When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Public Sector Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day
Research Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says
Cyber-crime Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
AI Infrastructure Month Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal
AI Infrastructure Month Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain
CSO Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
Security Signalgate solved? Report claims journalist’s phone number accidentally saved under name of Trump official
Cyber-crime Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years
Disaster Recovery Week For healthcare orgs, DR means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infections
The State of Storage Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Applications You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
