@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 Figures 🤦‍♂️ Also no need to be concerned with that here, I’ve personally blocked the ASN(s) of Microsoft, OpenAI, Claude and Google 😂

Google Gemini Advanced & 2TB Storage Free for Students
Google is offering their Gemini Advanced AI model for free to students, along with 2TB of free storage. This is a limited time offer where students must sign up by June 30, 2025. Students will need a valid .edu email address to be able to signup for the deal. Google says you can use Gemini … Read More ⌘ Read more

Judge Rules Google is a Monopoly (Again… for the 2nd time this year)
The odds of Google being broken up into Mini-Googles just keeps getting higher. ⌘ Read more

Google is a monopolist in online advertising tech, judge says
Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.86 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a 115-page ruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely … ⌘ Read more

“Move to iOS” app continuously refused to run as intended and expected, so couldn’t migrate mum’s Android based phone data. Most of her stuff is on a Google account, but not the SMS/MMS/RCS messages. Haven’t found a way to export, then import those into iOS.

She isn’t too happy having to keep the old phone just for the messages. Need to find a way to go through them, export multimedia attachments, and import them into iOS. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I am not letting her know yet. 😅

Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.

The post [Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MC … ⌘ Read more

Google moves all Android development behind closed doors
Up until now, Google developed several components of Android out in the open, as part of AOSP, while developing everything else behind closed doors, only releasing the source code once the final new Android version was released. This meant that Google had to merge the two branches, which lead to problems and issues, so Google decided it’s now moving all development of Android behind closed doors. What will change is th … ⌘ Read more

Memory safety for web fonts in Chrome: Google replaces FreeType with Rust-based alternative
There’s no escaping Rust, and the language is leaving its mark everywhere. This time around, Chrome has replaced its use of FreeType with Skrifa, a Rust-based replacement. Skrifa is written in Rust, and created as a replacement for FreeType to make font processing in Chrome secure for all our users. Skifra takes advantage of Rust’s memory safety, and … ⌘ Read more

Google makes Vulkan the official graphics API for Android
Google’s biggest announcement today, at least as it pertains to Android, is that the Vulkan graphics API is now the official graphics API for Android. Vulkan is a modern, low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API that provides developers with more direct control over the GPU than older APIs like OpenGL. This increased control allows for significantly improved performance, especially in multi-threaded a … ⌘ Read more

DOJ Says Google Must Sell Chrome, Can Keep AI
Plus: No more default Search Engine payments to Mozilla or Apple. ⌘ Read more

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322922

Points: 500

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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

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.

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.

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

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

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

@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)

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

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

Google Drive? Can he give direct link? Idk about he but twtxt feed can he hosted in s3!

Google Accuses Microsoft of “Dark Patterns” with Edge Browser on Windows
To make this case, they’ve formed the “Browser Choice Alliance” with Opera & Vivaldi. ⌘ Read more

Firefox Has 9 Months of Income Left (Possibly Less)
Also: Will Google be forced to sell off Android (when they sell off Chrome)? We’ll know next August. ⌘ Read more

Unlock growth and talent: why maintainers should mentor with CNCF
By Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship and Documentation, CNCF Open source projects rely on strong communities. Mentorship programs like LFX Mentorship and Google Summer of Code offer maintainers a chance to bring new contributors into their… ⌘ Read more

DOJ: Google Must Sell Off Chrome
And that’s only one impact of Google being officially ruled a monopoly. ⌘ Read more

Always has been. Web spec is too hard to implement your own web browser from scratch (nothing can, even Google and Apple, they forked KHTML). So if we not count forks we have only three browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

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Kissimmee - Long run: 7.25 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 01:11:52 duration
fun long run while we were at universal studios for a friends birthday. google maps thought there were some cut-throughs but was obviously wrong so just kind of winged it. was able to run around some of the “pioneer village” which was a good change in scenery.
#running

Mig, for sjov: Browseren er fremtidens OS!

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Mozilla Foundation Mass Layoffs, Axes Advocacy
With nosediving marketshare, upcoming loss of Google funding, & a shift to advertising… this was inevitable. ⌘ Read more

Get to know our new DEI Community Hub at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
We are delighted to announce our new DEI Community Hub at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, sponsored by Google Cloud, a physical space to connect, learn, and celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility! The DEI… ⌘ Read more