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Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit • The Register
Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions. The term CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” and, as Google explains, it refers to a challenge-response …
Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles • The Register
Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities. In a Monday post, Anthony Chavez, VP of Google’s Privacy Sandbox, said that the search and ads giant has come to understand that its …
Google, Oracle, and Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? • The Register
Google Cloud has delivered a Broadcom-compliant version of its cloudy VMware offering, and pitched it as a keenly priced migration target. The VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) does a lot of the things Broadcom wants its channel to deliver. For starters, it is based on Cloud Foundation – Broadcom’s preferred bundle …
Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you’re mostly grown up – now fix the spam • The Register
It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just might, hopefully, cut down on the amount of spam users receive. Sure, it may have seemed like an April Fool’s joke in 2004, but nearly two billion users later, Gmail …
Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all • The Register
Google will soon make its own contribution to the problem of link rot by shutting down the Google URL Shortener service in 2025. The Google URL Shortener was launched in 2009 as an attempt to make lengthy links manageable by feeding them into Google’s shortener, which spat out shorter ones in the form of https://goog.gl/*. …
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23 billion • The Register
Ask any techie to name who leads the market for OSes, databases, networks or ERP and the answers are clear: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and SAP. Security? That’s a tougher question. But Google appears to be attempting a play for the crown, as it is reportedly poised to acquire infosec upstart Wiz. Wiz was founded in …
Apple, Google, ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch • The Register
Google and Apple have signed off on a tool that their cloud photo storage services interoperable, but it may come at a cost to some users. The tool was created under the auspices of the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI), an entity formed in 2023 that sees Apple, Meta, and Google work to enable data portability …