New York Times uses Wordle to track users
Published in News


Game loaded with add trackers

A month after Apple’s favourite newspaper, the New York Times, bought Wordle it has loaded it with advertising trackers.

Apple and Google face Netherlands class action
Published in News


Apple faces the power of Orange and Google faces thousands

Apple and Google face a potential class action lawsuit in the Netherlands over app store charges, after a foundation headed by Dutch entrepreneur Alexander Klopping began gathering claimants.

Google AI gets nukes
Published in AI
17 February 2022

Google AI gets nukes


What could possibly go wrong?

Google’s AI Deep Mind has been brushing up on nuclear reactors and now can control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

Linux bugs fixed faster
Published in News
16 February 2022

Linux bugs fixed faster


Closed source is slower 

Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and it looks like no one stomps on bugs faster than a Linux developer.

Google Analytics breaks GDPR
Published in News


All hell about to break lose

The use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France -- after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month.

UK accepts Google’s cookie tracking plans
Published in News


Needs something to go with the tea

Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it had accepted a revised offer from Google of commitments relating to its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.

Google sued for €2.1 billion
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Following anti-trust ruling

Search engine outfit Google has been sued by price comparison website PriceRunner for €2.1 billion because of its anti-competitive search result practices.

Big Tech should pay if its punters are scammed
Published in News


UK government investigates

Big tech companies who carry scam adverts should be forced to reimburse victims, UK MPs have said.

Most developers want Google and Apple tamed
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Google tells Texas judge to throw out anti-trust law suit
Published in Mobiles


No proof of doing someone wrong 

Alphabet's Google asked a federal judge to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market.