Big Tech thinks it's above the law. Again.

#DataCentre #BigTech #Google #AI

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center

Sounds about right... A fitting metaphor!

#DataCenter Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction

"You better believe that they are watering their entire green with so many sprinklers that it's literally making a giant pond."

By Joe Wilkins
Published Sep 7, 2026

"When the #DenverCO board of Water Commissioners approved stage one #drought restrictions back in March, they did so facing some of the driest conditions in decades. According to the #USDrough Monitor, the watershed sourced for Denver’s water utility is experiencing a 'severe to exceptional drought,' while the Denver metropolitan area has been in a “severe drought.”

"As a result, residents and businesses have been asked to scale back. Denverites now have to limit watering their lawns to two days a week, chosen by address. And even on those days, customers are prohibited from watering between the hours of 10am and 6pm, Gadget Review reports.

"Yet as some 1.5 million customers honor the restrictions, one major customer is evidently refusing to close the tap: a brand new #AIDatacenter .

"In a now-viral video circulating on social media, an unidentified resident of Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood filmed the massive lawn of a data center being sprayed with copious amounts of water.

" 'You better believe that they are watering their entire green with so many sprinklers that it’s literally making a giant pond,' the woman says.

"The identity of the data center in question is unconfirmed, but it’s likely the new 18 megawatt facility owned by the cloud computing company #CoreSite. At around 170,000 square feet in size, the mammoth facility recently went live in #ElyriaSwansea, though not without sparking a wide-ranging debate around Denver’s zoning regulations.

"It isn’t known which tech companies are renting out space in CoreSite’s Denver facility, but elsewhere the company has proudly partnered with tech giants like #Amazon, #Google, and #Microsoft ."

Read more:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-lawn-neighbors-drought-water-restrictions

#AI #AIDatacenters #USPol #Colorado #WaterIsLife #Datacenters #Datacentres #WaterRestrictions #WastingWater #Drought #ClimateChange

@nextcloud
I saw no mention of #keepassdc , #signal / #molly

I just moved to #grapheneos recently so f**k Google's vision of Android! Unfortunately, the majority of users will be stucked there.
Shame on #google for doing that f*** move

#Google Is Closing Android: And Taking Your Freedom With It

The #Android story is a warning: when you depend on a platform built by a company whose interests diverge from yours, you eventually lose. The solution is not a different Big Tech provider, it is infrastructure built on fundamentally different principles.

https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/03/google-closing-android-ecosystem/

Socket, posted yesterday: Malicious Firefox Extension Poses as PDF Identity Verifier to Hijack Google Accounts https://socket.dev/blog/firefox-google-account-takeover @SocketSecurity #infosec #Firefox #Google #cybercrime

Don’t expect the #techbros to tell you when their apocalypse seeking LLM has almost reached its goal…

#Google
#OpenAI
#Anthropic
#AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/google-gemini-ai-hack

AI is TERRIBLE for the #internet

If we like it or not, traffic has always been the currency on the web. Many news outlets and #journalists would not be able to do their work without it

A lot of this traffic was coming from search engines like #Google, again like it or not. Nowadays Google uses their AI to pull info from sites making visiting websites for info obsolete and in turn killing traffic and a lot of sites

For the love of the internet, please DO NOT use the #AI summary but browse!♥️

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

I'm beyond gone crazy, please help: I NEED an Android gallery app that can show photos and videos SEPARATELY. I've tried over 30 apps. This is in-fucking-sane. Clearly no one at Google has ever used an Android phone to take and share photos and videos.
#Android #Google #fedihelp #askfedi #photography

@rl_dane @jperkin

#Google is suffering from a problem of its own making. It's the WWW scrapers feeding LLMs that are creating a lot of this traffic.

#GoogleGroups

It's really time for everyone to just admit the truth:

#RCS is just #Google's iMessage.

It's not a replacement for #MMS, let alone an update to it. You can say it's an "open spec," but it's as closed as iMessage is in practice.

We've been sold a bill of goods.

It's not every day that I get to show up my old friends at #Google so hard. This graph demonstrates #atomdrift's uncanny ability to detect 0-day #malware (median sample age 10 h, youngest 0.7 h):

The #Google #pixel experience (and #android in general) seems increasingly driven by corporate committee, raising prices while underdelivering on stuff users actually care about while aggressively pitching more and more paid services. eg, just think about all the stuff that Google Assistant could do without a Gemini subscription 10 years ago. 12 years ago the phones shipped with universal remote controls and FM radio without a subscription required for either.

A #Gmail scam is exploiting #Google Account recovery emails

https://proton.me/blog/google-account-recovery-gmail-scam

#email #cybersecurity

@globcoco Yes, I guess #Google is deliberately rate-limiting or causing shit…

Open #AuroraStore and go to the gear icon in the top-right corner, where your anonymous user is.

Click on the right side of your anonymous user, go to the three dots at the top right next to “Account,” and click “Refresh all accounts

Amazing Enshitification by Google #google #search

https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products

There's some #Google apology circulating that #GoogleMaps follows national government rules in each country.

This is observably false.

Here in the U.K., the WWW Google Maps has changed #LakeOntario to add the Trump U.S.A. rename. I took this screenshot today.

The U.K. official source for these things is the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, and the FCDO, which have not mandated any such rename.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/geographical-names-and-information

#Canada #ElbowsUp #LakeOntario #GulfOfMexico #USPolitics

Alt...

A screenshot of the WWW Google Maps search sidebar in the U.K. as of 2026-09-02, which shows 'Lake Ontario (Lake America)' twice, in the heading and against the map pin. All of the other stuff (overview/reviews/about tabs and a short blurb about the lake) is as usual.

If companies like #Google and #Apple are so easily "persuaded" to change the bullshit renames #Trump does...

..how easy do you think they will turn over personal data on us?

Big Tech CANNOT be trusted, that's the unfortunate reality we live in and always have

@debian Great work!! Just saying: Those videos would look nice in a Hyper8 website (would present them as thumbnails with captions, a bit like a #Youtube channel, but without those heinous shitheads: #Google).

Does anyone know who the point of contact is at #Google Maps? I renamed the street we live on.

#shitpost

Google. No, not cowards. Not desperate, not lickspittle, not craven fawning weaklings.

Google are totalitarian fascists. Pichai is a totalitarian fascist.

#google #fascism #antifa

I already had done this on my pixel pro xl 10 and found today that it had been turned back off and required another 24 hour delay to turn it back on again 😩.

#android #Google #pixel

Alt...

Security delay to install non play store apps

https://www.404media.co/google-maps-lake-america-lake-ontario-name-change/

Google being evil.

#Google #LakeOntario #Canada #USPolitics #Hydronym #DonaldTrump

🆕 blog! “Contactless Payments with GrapheneOS”

Google's monopolistic stranglehold on Android results in poor experience for power-users, and artificially restricts choice for those who have older phones. For example, Google Wallet is the de facto way to use NFC payments on Android. There's one problem though - it only works with Google's Android. If you have…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/
⸻
#android #google #GrapheneOS #nfc

🆕 blog! “"iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!"”

The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation.

I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had my Google™ Pixel® ph…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/it-works-better-in-the-app/
⸻
#android #Apps #google #rant

Why should you block ads?

Because of THIS shit. I have an ultrawide monitor. Look how fucking much usable screen estate is robbed from me.

Note, on the left hand column further down, another ad looms into view as you start scrolling. None of these disappear when scrolling.

#Google #Tech #Ads

Alt...

A screenshot of a news article I'm reading. To try and explain it, about 75% of the actual screen is taken up by blocks of adverts. I imagine that's like adverts playing over the top of your screenreader or something? Better not say that too loudly, we might give them ideas...

#google mag mich nicht mehr ohne Anmeldung 🤔

Alt...

Zum Fortfahren anmelden Melde dich an, um zu bestätigen, dass du ein Mensch bist, und um weitere Ergebnisse zu sehen. Anmelden

I’m watching some videos about the new Pixel 11 Pro. I’m…I don’t know, but I don’t like what I see.
It looks a total downgrade.

#Android #Pixel #Google

Hey Canada? 🇨🇦 ?

In dealing with Trump/billionaire/techbros, Europeans suddenly had prominent Europeans locked out of their google mail and Microsoft software.

Europe is moving off US software.
Canada has more reasons than Europe to abandon Gmail, Windows, Word, cloud and data.

Its time for a concerted effort, including government.

Get off American Software, stat.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/whats-behind-europes-efforts-to-ditch-u-s-software-in-favor-of-sovereign-tech/

#cdnpoli #software #sovereignty #apple #google #linux #microsoft #meta #drm