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Google paid $10M in bug bounty rewards last year

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Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly...
Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services. Though this is lower than the $12 million Google's Vulnerability Reward Program paid to researchers in 2022, the amount is still significant, showcasing...

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Bay Area tech workers are seeing 'salary stagnation,' new report says

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Google confirmed it 'terminated' an employee who staged a protest against Israel

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A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now...
A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job.The employee demonstrated during a presentation by Barak Regev, Google Israel's managing director, on Monday in New York City."I'm a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, aparth...

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Google's shiny new Bay Area office reportedly has terrible Wi-Fi

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Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event as internal dissent mounts

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Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive's conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.It's...
Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive's conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.It's the latest sign of controversy at the company, which has struggled with employee dissent for several years.Google also prematurely shuttered an internal discussion forum ahead of a planned International W...

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A Google engineer ran a secret startup in China while stealing AI technology

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A Google employee indicted by the US Department of Justice has been accused of stealing confidential...
A Google employee indicted by the US Department of Justice has been accused of stealing confidential AI technology while secretly working for tech companies in China.The indictment, unsealed on Wednesday by the DOJ, charged Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, with four counts of theft of trade secrets. Authorities...

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Ex-Googler Linwei Ding charged with stealing AI secrets to aid Chinese companies

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A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the...
A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal ...

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Google and xPrize launch $5M prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

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Google Will Pay You $5M to Figure Out What the Hell Quantum Computers Do

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If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no...
If you’ve ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve. Google launched a multi-year, global competition on Monday to find real-world use cases for quantum computing, and the finalists will split $5 million.“While there ...

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We hacked Google A.I.

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What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially when it involves uncovering vulnerabilities in...
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially when it involves uncovering vulnerabilities in Google's systems. The story you are about to read starts in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel, travels to the heart of Tokyo, and finally ends in France. Joseph "rez0" Thacker, Justin "Rhynorater" Gardner and ...

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Google Says It's Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results

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Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of...
Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search—a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online.The God of Search made the announcement in a blog post on Tuesday. According...

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Sergey Brin says in rare appearance that company 'messed up' Gemini image launch

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Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the "AGI House"...
Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California.Brin said Google "definitely messed up," referring to the company's faulty Gemini image generation launch earlier this month.Regarding changes in the search business, Brin said, "As long as there’...

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We 'messed up' with black Nazi blunder, Google co-founder admits

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Mr Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, no longer has a formal role...
Mr Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, no longer has a formal role at the company but sits on the board and, along with Mr Page, has ultimate control of the company. He has largely withdrawn from public life. Mr Brin’s thoughts on the company’s progress came amid pressure on Google chief executive S...

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YouTube Music team laid off while workers testified about working conditions

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The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent...
The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet.The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents workers at Google's parent company, Alphabet, said Google laid off the YouTube Music team on Friday.Some of the Alphabet workers found out about the layoff while they were sp...

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There are growing calls for Google CEO Sundar Pichai to step down

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The search giant, already feeling the heat of sudden and fierce competition in AI, has been...
The search giant, already feeling the heat of sudden and fierce competition in AI, has been making some very public snafus.The debacle has strengthened the narrative that Google is suddenly behind in the AI race, and now there's a growing chorus of voices calling for CEO Sundar Pichai to be replaced.Analyst and Stra...

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The Google Gemini Conspiracy Theory

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Google's latest AI product launch went so badly, there's now a conspiracy theory floating around that...
Google's latest AI product launch went so badly, there's now a conspiracy theory floating around that the fiasco was actually something executed on purpose.Just like an AI model output, this theory is not really believable. But it says a lot about Google's current predicament. Especially how exposed the company's Se...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says its malfunctioning Gemini AI is 'unacceptable'

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what’s been going on with the company’s Gemini...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what’s been going on with the company’s Gemini AI chatbot, calling viral and historically inaccurate errors from its image generator “unacceptable” in an internal memo to employees on Tuesday.“I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in...

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Google CEO tells employees Gemini AI blunder 'unacceptable'

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In a memo Tuesday evening, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s artificial intelligence mistakes, which...
In a memo Tuesday evening, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s artificial intelligence mistakes, which led to Google taking its Gemini image-generation feature offline for further testing.Pichai called the issues “problematic” and said they “have offended our users and shown bias.” The news was first re...

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A new aspect of Google's spying

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Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff

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Updated Feb 26, 2024, 04:14pm EST Google parent Alphabet lost some $90 billion in market value...
Updated Feb 26, 2024, 04:14pm EST Google parent Alphabet lost some $90 billion in market value Monday as controversy over the Silicon Valley giant’s generative artificial intelligence product made its way to Wall Street. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has grappled with significant headaches from his company's generative...

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Elon Musk to Take on Gmail with New Xmail Service

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Will Elon Musk try to kill Gmail with new Xmail service?AFP via Getty Images As the...
Will Elon Musk try to kill Gmail with new Xmail service?AFP via Getty Images As the furor over a hoax email pertaining to come from Google and detailing how Gmail was to supposedly be closed down on August 1 starts to evaporate, Elon Musk just added fuel to the fire by claiming to be developing a new email service c...

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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.By Michael Barbaro and Tom Zeller Jr.Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417...

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Google Pauses Ability to Generate Images of People

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Google said Thursday it’s pausing its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate people. The move comes after...
Google said Thursday it’s pausing its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate people. The move comes after viral social posts showed the AI tool overcorrecting for diversity, producing “historical” images of Nazis, America’s Founding Fathers and the Pope as people of color.“We’re already working to address recent issue...

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AI Is in the Midst of a Fever Dream and It's Only Getting Worse

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AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to...
AI chatbots made headlines this week with a range of glaring flubs that were hard to look past. Tech companies are rushing to show off their non-offensive, error-free AI chatbots. They’re hoping to show investors that the billions of dollars spent on this technology was a good investment. This week, AI chatbots show...

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