May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle … Read more
May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security Google has released its monthly security updates for Android with fixes for 46 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-27363 (CVSS score: 8.1), a high-severity flaw in the System component that could lead to local … Read more
AI continues to expand its reach into our lives, and language learning is next on the list. This week brought big developments from both Google and Duolingo on that front. On Google’s end, the search giant launched new Gemini-powered AI tools for users to learn foreign languages. Dubbed Little Language Lessons, the experimental feature offers … Read more
Contrary to the computer science truism of “garbage in, garbage out, Google here is taking in some garbage and spitting out… well, a workable interpretation of garbage, at the very least. Google’s AI Overview even goes into more detail explaining its thought process. “Lick” here means to “trick or deceive” someone, it says, a bit … Read more
Broadcom has once again been recognized with a prestigious 2025 Google Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Partner of the Year for virtualization. This marks our fifth consecutive time being recognized with the honor, a testament to our unwavering commitment to collaborating with Google Cloud to deliver exceptional hybrid cloud solutions. Together, we’ve built our partnership with customer … Read more