Smart Glasses Are Catching on With U.S. Police

At least two sheriff's offices in Florida have purchased Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses.

https://gizmodo.com/smart-glasses-are-catching-on-with-u-s-police-2000797054

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #Gizmodo [Gizmodo]

Sometimes I accidentally use the world’s largest search engine from one of the most profitable companies in all of human history for a simple query. And then I get slop like this.

It continues to amaze me that this:
• shipped to users
• is the technology burning out almost everyone I know
• would ever be intentionally used by anyone

Google has become a horrible search engine that is being replaced by a horrible bullshit machine.

#Google #AI #LLM #slop #Gemini

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Google search results for “7 PM UTC to PST” # AI Overview **7:00 PM UTC is 3:00 AM PST** (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8). If you meant Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC-7), which is active during the summer, 7:00 PM UTC is 12:00 PM (noon) PDT. You can check live conversions anytime using World Time Buddy or Savvy Time.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/117049317999200326

DON'T USE #GOOGLE

For one of the less crappy ones I would recommend ProtonDrive from Proton for non-self hosted and Nextcloud for self-hosted

Better suggestions are welcome

Peter Sanchez boosted

Summer Jo ☀️ » 🌐 2026-08-06 / 2026-08-06
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt

PSA: Apparently google trains or indexes their AI on your PRIVATE Google Drive Documents:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/

(TLDR; Indie dev had their audience ask Google highly specific questions about future content of their game, and it spat out an exact name of an upcoming enemy type. Furthermore it listed scrapped ideas and ideas that *only* existed in their *private* Google Docs.)

I’d use #DuckDuckGo way more if it had paged results on mobile (rather than the endless scroll which they and #Google use). Yes, something that simple is enough for me to go to another #search. I’ve even used #Bing for that.

The #EU wanted to kill the #CookieBanner, but then #Google called.

https://tuta.com/blog/why-eu-member-states-and-google-want-to-keep-cookie-banner

#privacy

#fomo 😬
#Google liefert nicht erwartete Ergebnisse.
(Filter nach Zeit bei ist mir derzeit nahezu wirkungslos)

Which software ecosystems have you been brave and courageous enough **to abandon completely**? Check all that apply

Please boost for #Science

#SocialMedia #Meta #Google #Microsoft #internet #web #apps #Bigtech

1. The Main Switch

This is the main setting Google shows you, but it's not the only one.

Gmail (Desktop):

⚙️ Settings → See all settings → Smart features and personalization → Uncheck "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet" → Save Changes.

#Google #Email #Privacy #AI

@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

#Google #Email #Privacy #AI

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CU photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie (Sundar Pichai) next to a large Google mail icon

#Google claims they still have a Trust & Safety team, a Responsible AI team, and various red team testing efforts.

What Google didn't mention is that they're all probably chained incommunicado somewhere in the dungeon bowels of B43 at MTV.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117015944263129844

#Facebook #Meta #Xitter are NOT neutral platforms. they are all heavily curated PUBLICATIONS; like the miscellanea albums popular in the early 20th century.

it’s clear the #FAANG of yore are publishing companies when you look at the heavily curated news feeds from #Google #Apple #Microsoft and shopping catalog from #Amazon.

let’s stop pretending these companies are the internet or even gateways to the free flow of information. they aren't.

#techbros are publishers ―and shitty ones at that.

🆕 blog! “Google Calendar "Unable to launch event" - caused by missing DTSTAMP”

For several years, Google's product help forums have been littered with people trying to download a .ics event from their email, only to receive the error "Unable to launch event" when trying to add it to Google Calendar. It doesn't happen with all iCal…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/google-calendar-unable-to-launch-event-caused-by-missing-dtstamp/
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#android #bug #google #standards

Oh now this is the best tech news I have heard for awhile…. Is a Mega-Enron situation about to happen to a bunch of the Magnificient Seven?

“Like Enron, they’re using special purpose vehicles, or off-balance sheet arrangements such as legally distinct subsidiaries, as a way to make their financial reporting look healthier than it actually is — often a glaring sign that something is deeply amiss behind the scenes.”

Also… is this why Apple effectively outsourced its AI, rather than build its own. If so, it could be the smartest tech hedge of the century.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

#apple #microsoft #meta #google #alphabet #amazon #oracle #AI #hedge #enron #debt

#Google’s done it again. #AV2, son of AV1. #Streaming video using 30% less bandwidth.
Google always needs a handicap, making unique chips for this. AV1 ground out slowly, and AV2 won’t happen for 10 years, though they'll have chips for 2028.
Assuming most will update their streaming device, be it bespoke like Roku or generalized like a phone, in the next 5 to 8 years, is hilarious.
Between the consumers financial burden & just not needing to, Google is doing that thing they normally do: pretend.

@thomasfuchs People will though. The same people for whom it takes about three seconds to find high res selfie video of them online. Because they absolutely want some unknown device being able to log into their account.

Of course some people will be coerced into doing it by an abusive partner.

#Google does not care. Google wants to eat your face. #FuckGoogle

The European Commission fined #Google €890 million for breaching the #DigitalMarketsAct, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to alternatives on #GoogleSearch and #GooglePlay.

More information: link.europa.eu/vrNJTx

#RegulateBigTech #Regulation #EU

I've had admin powers at 5+ companies' Google Workspace/G Suite over the past decade or so. Every single one had groups which were misconfigured, often so anyone in the whole company could join without approval or see the message history at https://groups.google.com without being a member at all.

This is because for any sensible configuration of Google Groups when using it for email groups you have to use the "Custom" permissions mode. The default Public mode doesn't allow external people to email the group, but does allow the whole company to see all the messages. The default Team mode, has the same problem of everyone being able to see all the messages.

Also let's not forget that dangerous little "Anyone in the organisation can join" toggle at the bottom which is on by default. So any random new starter can join your confidential company directors group and get all the emails sent to it.

Giving Google the benefit of the doubt here, I think the reasoning might be that Google Groups is intended as a kind of company forum, not for private email groups. However that isn't how anyone uses it in my experience...

#security #infosec #google #googleworkspace

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Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

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Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode