Please die. Please

Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, threatened a Michigan college student during a  conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults,

Can spot a scammer

Google has unveiled two security features for Android devices, promising enhanced protection against scams and malicious apps.

Anti-trust

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating anti-competitive practices at Vole’s cloud computing business.

A million new users since the US election

As the numbers of users at Elon [look at me] Musk’s social notworking site Twitter X have been falling faster than a free-falling elephant without a parachute, numbers at its rival Bluesky have been increasing.

Roads leading away from Chrome

ChatGPT is getting 3.7 billion visits worldwide and the AI chatbot's popularity is so immense that its user figures are rivalling those of major browsers.

What could go wrong?

Google Maps now comes with AI, making it a lot easier for our future robot overlords to simply have us drive ourselves to the Human Battery Conversion factories when the time comes.

Army runs on Llamas

Social notworking outfit Meta has changed its policies on government agencies and contractors working on national security to allow the military use of its products.

Google and Apple in court

App developers Musi and Sarafan Mobile have sued Apple and Google in California federal court over unjustified app removals based on legal issues with the big tech companies.

It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.

Challenges Google and Microsoft

OpenAI launched a real-time search function within ChatGPT, marking its first significant foray into a market long dominated by Google.