CNCF Joins Google Summer of Code 2025 – Calling All Contributors!
We’re thrilled to share that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has once again been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for 2025! This program is a fantastic opportunity for new contributors—especially students—to… ⌘ Read more

Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers
Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia’s design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they both fetch content addressed blobs from the network, assemble those blobs into an isolated filesystem structure that holds all the dependencies necessary to run some piece of software, and … ⌘ Read more

Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more people. Today, we’re sharing that we’ve launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews in the U.S. to help with harder questions, starting with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries, with mor … ⌘ Read more

Google multibillionaire Brin demands employees work 60 hours a week on autocomplete tools
Over the past few years, the tech industry has gone from cushy landing pad for STEM grads to a cesspit of corporate greed, where grueling hours are commonplace, and layoffs could strike at any moment. Unfortunately for employees of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, the squeeze is just getting started. ↫ Joe Wilkins at Futurism Sergey Brin, one of t … ⌘ Read more

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The Firefox “Terms of Use” Backlash Threatens to Destroy What’s Left of Mozilla
Mozilla accidentally shares internal Google Doc with Lunduke (for one minute). ⌘ Read more

Mozilla reaffirms it won’t remove Manifest v2 support from Firefox
Mozilla has officially reiterated that it’s going to keep offering support for both Manifest v2 and Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox. Google is removing support for Manifest v2 from Chrome, and with it a feature called blockingWebRequest that is used by ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Google’s replacement for that feature is more restrictive and less capable, and as such, uBlock Origin no longer wor … ⌘ Read more

I’m going to bed. I left them a 1 Star rating and full Review on Google Maps 🤣
I’m going to bed. I left them a 1 Star rating and full Review on Google Maps 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
i wanted to change the habit of reaching for my phone in the morning and doomscrolling away an hour so i built an app to help me. now i have to literally touch grass before accessing my most distracting apps

the app is built in swiftui, uses the screen time apis provided by apple and google vision to recognise grass or not

i’d love to get your thoughts on the concept.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43 … ⌘ Read more

Why you got to lie to me Google?

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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102284

Points: 504

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@prologic@twtxt.net Have you tried Google’s robots.txt report? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en . I would expect Google to be pretty good about this sort of thing. If you have the energy to dig into it and, for example, post on support.google.com, I’d be curious to hear what you find out.

**On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• _more to come …**
  On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft

• Google

• Alibaba

• Open AI

• more to come… ⌘ Read more

(#xbiyfxq) * 8a77b64 - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Google's ASN (21 seconds ago) <James Mills>
* 8a77b64 - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Google's ASN (21 seconds ago) <James Mills> ⌘ Read more

**It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the robots.txt that I have on https://git.mills.io/robots.txt with content:

User- ...**
It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the `robots.txt` that I have on [https://git.mills.io/robots.txt](https://git.mills.io/robots.txt) with content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

”`

Evidence attached ( see screenshots): – I think its the the Small Web com … ⌘ Read more”`

reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:

• (810) bingbot
  
• (641) Googlebot
  
• (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
  
• (545) DotBot
  
• (290) GPTBot
  
• (106) SemrushBot
  
• (84) AhrefsBot
  
• (62) MJ12bot
  
• (60) BLEXBot
  
• (55) wpbot
  
• (37) Amazonbot
  
• (28) YandexBot
  
• (22) ClaudeBot
  
• (19) AwarioBot
  
• (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
  
• (9) https://serpstatbot.com
  
• (6) t3versionsBot
  
• (6) archive.org_bot
  
• (6) Applebot
  
• (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
  
• (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
  
• (4) Googlebot-Mobile
  
• (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
  
• (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  
• (3) YandexNews
  
• (3) ImagesiftBot
  
• (2) Qwantify-prod
  
• (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
  
• (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
  
• (1) YaK
  
• (1) WBSearchBot
  
• (1) DataForSeoBot
  

i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.

‘Godfather of AI’ sounds alarm on Google weapons plan
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‘Most dangerous technology ever’: Protesters urge AI pause
Google this week quietly revised its artificial intelligence ethics, no longer ruling out military or surveillance use. ⌘ Read more

在 Go 中實現 TOTP 認證：實踐指南
時間性一次性密碼（TOTP）已成爲現代應用中實現雙因素認證（2FA）的標準。在本指南中，我們將探討如何在 Go 中使用流行的 github.com/pquerna/otp 庫實現 TOTP。 什麼是 TOTP？———TOTP 生成臨時密碼，這些密碼在短時間內（通常是 30 秒）有效。這項技術是 Google Authenticator、Authy 等認證器應用背後的核心技術。TOTP ⌘ Read more

Why Samsung’s latest Ultra can claim to be the best android available right now
Phones aren’t the competent AI assistants of sci-fi just yet, but Samsung’s blend of high-end hardware and Google smarts indicates the way forward. ⌘ Read more

Digital transformation driven by community: Kubernetes as example
Member post by Angel Ramirez, Cuemby In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, Kubernetes emerges as a transformative force in open-source innovation. Originating from a Google project in 2014, it has grown into a global movement that… ⌘ Read more

Google Maps is run by cowards
Google, on its Google Maps naming policy, back in 2008: By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage. Google, today, in 2025: Google has confirmed that Google Maps will soon … ⌘ Read more

PebbleOS becomes open source, new Pebble device announced
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and create a brand new smartwatch. PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Repro … ⌘ Read more

We’re bringing Pebble back
Thank you, Google. You didn’t have to, but you did. We (the Pebble team and community) are extraordinarily grateful.

I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

We got our original start on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868), it’s a pleasure to be back.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42 … ⌘ Read more

Cake Wallet adds XMR/WOW passphrase restore support
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.23.0-RC2 with support for Zano wallets, and passphase restore for Monero and Wownero:

The latest version of Cake Wallet is now live for public beta testing here on Github as well as on Google Play (testers channel) and Apple TestFlight. This release of Cake Wallet brings support for Zano, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency with additional alias and token functionality to Cake Wal … ⌘ Read more

Samsung changes little for S25 phones, but AI collaboration with Google grows
Gemini is the new default chatbot on the Galaxy S25 phones, which otherwise are near-identical to last year. ⌘ Read more

Introduction to GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS (written GOS from now on) is an Android based operating system that focuses security. It is only compatible with Google Pixel devices for multiple reasons: availability of hardware security components, long term support (series 8 and 9 are supported at least 7 years after release) and the hardware has a good quality / price ratio. The goal of GOS is to provide users a lot more control about what their smartphone is doing. A main profile is used by default (the owner … ⌘ Read more

Go 表達式引擎之理解與使用 cel-go
在現代應用中，表達式求值引擎已經成爲許多系統不可或缺的一部分。它可以讓業務邏輯與代碼分離，爲動態規則配置提供極大的靈活性。而 Google 開源的 cel-go (Common Expression Language for Go) 就是這樣一款輕量級、高性能的表達式求值引擎。無論你是初學者還是需要在項目中集成 cel-go，這篇文章都將帶你從入門到精通！什麼是 CEL 和 cel-go？CEL（ ⌘ Read more

Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the overall Google Search experience for users. The spokesperson noted that, with … ⌘ Read more

Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case
In these ten cases, everything from Street View snapshots to Google Earth satellite imagery played a key role in uncovering crazy truths, finding missing persons, and piecing together unsolved mysteries. Some of these crimes are bizarre, some are tragic, and others are almost too coincidental to believe. But they all share one thing in common: […]

The post [Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case](https://listverse.com/2025/01/18/ten-times-google-maps-solved … ⌘ Read more

Will The Linux Foundation Purchase Chrome?
The courts are primed to force Google to sell Chrome, & Google is preparing by setting up a “Chrome” organization within The Linux Foundation. ⌘ Read more

It’s nice to see that some Crawlers actaully respect rate limits and respect a 429 Too many requests response 👌 Thank you Google! 🙌 …
It’s nice to see that some Crawlers actaully respect rate limits and respect a 429 Too many requests response 👌 Thank you Google! 🙌 ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz well even after doing the new fixes my invidious instance is still dead because google blocked my ip i think and i don’t have a proxy server so uhhhhhhhhhh. not much to watch unless i use videos on my server

Did you have disallow rule in robots.txt? (I think not because can google several twtxt.net posts)

(#qed3omq) Bloody fucking hell. I think one of Google’s GenAI crawlers was just hitting my Gitea instance quite hard. Fuck 🤬 Geez
Bloody fucking hell. I think one of Google’s GenAI crawlers was just hitting my Gitea instance quite hard. Fuck 🤬 Geez ⌘ Read more

使用 Go 構建基於時間的一次性密碼 -TOTP- 生成器
前言–現在很多網站都開啓了 2FA（Two-Factor Authentication，雙因素認證），如 GitHub、Google、微軟等。這種額外的安全層顯著提高了賬戶的安全性。本文將深入探討如何使用 Go 語言實現 TOTP 生成器，並詳細解釋其工作原理和安全考慮原理解析—-兩步驗證要求用戶提供兩種不同形式的身份驗證：知識因素：用戶知道的信息（如密碼） 所有權因素：用戶擁有的設 ⌘ Read more

**(#5eultoa) @andros Bah 🤦‍♂️

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@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Bah 🤦‍♂️

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Employees Speak Out: Google, Apple, Microsoft, & Intel Discriminate Against White Men
“I’d love to hire you, but, unfortunately, you’re a white male.” ⌘ Read more

Go Protobuf 新增全新不透明 API
Protobuf 是 Google 的語言中立的數據交換格式。早在 2020 年 3 月，就發佈了 google.golang.org/protobuf 模塊，這是對 Go protobuf API 的重大修訂。該包引入了對反射的一流支持、一個 dynamicpb 實現和 protocmp 包，以便於測試。現在，我們將爲生成的代碼發佈一個新的 API，我們將說明創建新 API 的動機，並展示如何在 ⌘ Read more

10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History
Translation seems like an easy task these days, with the help of technology such as Google at our fingertips, but it isn’t always so simple. Simple translation when trying to greet someone from another country is one thing, but interpreting major documents or treaties is another. Translators and interpreters are professionals with years of experience, […]

The post [10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History](https://listverse.com/2024/12/28/1 … ⌘ Read more

Google Tells Courts How Google Should Be Punished (and Tried to Hide it)
Released Friday before Christmas – the ideal time to hide any announcement – in response to losing an antitrust suit, Google proposes no real changes to their company or search business. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more

Go 語言中嘗試延遲執行一個函數
Go 編程語言提供了豐富的特性，使得像 Google 這樣的大型公司能夠高效地進行軟件開發。它爲許多雲服務提供商和分佈式服務的底層基礎設施提供支持，同時保持了簡單易學的特點。在 Go 中，我們可以根據需要使用指針類型和值類型。在本文中，我們將探討一個有趣的使用場景。函數調用中的切片和映射傳遞————-通常，在 Go 中調用函數時，切片（slice）和映射（map）並不是通過指針傳遞 ⌘ Read more

Go 語言五種實現 broadcaster 的方法，你喜歡哪一種？
昨天看到 Jaana Dogan 創建了一個 broadcaster 的庫， 話說美女 Jaana Dogan 又回到了 Google 了麼。她的實現我們就當做 broadcaster 的第一個實現吧。什麼是 broadcaster？就是村口的大喇叭，一播音，全村都知道了。Jaana Dogan 實現的這個 broadcaster 只有通知的功能，沒有傳遞消息，也不能重用。我們就以這個庫爲基準，看 ⌘ Read more

The high-end Chinese phones taking on Apple, Google and Samsung
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Google Drive? Can he give direct link? Idk about he but twtxt feed can he hosted in s3!

(#rbniy5q) > PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by sci …

PhD level science questions? (+1)

niftydude an hour ago

A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by scientific research and experimentation.

And no, by “research”, I do not mean googling.

Literally the whole point of a scientific PhD is to perform experiments and study to answer a specific research question that no one has looked into yet.

Whilst Chat … ⌘ Read more

使用 Go 開發 AI Agent 的選擇：Genkit for Go
什麼是 Genkit———-Genkit[1] 是一個 Google Firebase 團隊開發的 AI Agent 開發框架，用於構建現代、高效的 AI 應用。它目前包含一個 Node.js 的實現 [2] 和一個 Go 語言的實現 [3]。之所以注意到這個框架是因爲 Go 團隊在他們的十五週年博客 [4] 中提到了它。Go 團隊在博客中提到，他們正在努力使 Go 成爲構建生產 AI ⌘ Read more

Every time you use ChatGPT, half a cup of water goes to waste
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Google Accuses Microsoft of “Dark Patterns” with Edge Browser on Windows
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