Security is a top priority for Google. We invest a lot in making sure that our services use industry-leading security, like strong HTTPS encryption by default. That means that people using Search, Gmail and Drive, for example, automatically have a secure connection to Google. Beyond our own stuff, we’re also working to make the Internet […] Continue reading → 
Entry from IP traced to U.S. House of Representatives describes Alex Jones as ‘Kremlin disinformation agent’ Edits to the Wikipedia profiles of Alex Jones and Abby Martin which malign the two alternative media personalities as Kremlin propagandists are linked to an IP address associated with the House of Representatives, prompting suggestions that the U.S. government […] Continue reading → 
Google Inc (GOOGL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), whose Android software reigns as the world’s dominant smartphone operating system, will step up efforts to make inroads into cars, televisions and other devices at its annual developer conference this week, sources familiar with the matter said. The Internet company is […] Continue reading → 
Facebook Inc. (FB)’s website returned to service after disruptions that blocked access to the world’s largest social-networking site for about half an hour. “Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented some users from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time,” Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in an e-mailed statement that didn’t […] Continue reading → 
Jack Shafer, You know that annoying guy in the office who steps on all of your punch lines? Who deflates with a concise quip the shaggy dog stories you’re trying to tell? Well, that buttinski has taken his act to Twitter where, under the username SavedYouAClick, he’s razoring the guts out of the often misleading […] Continue reading → 
The automatic “Pinging” feature in WordPress is extremely powerful – if you know how to use it. Fortunately, it’s very easy to setup once, and benefit from it every time you post new content or update existing content going forward. Plus, I’ve done all of the hard work for you in finding and testing this […] Continue reading → 
The corporate campus of Vivint Inc., among North America’s largest home-automation companies, rises up on the outskirts of Provo, Utah, a handsome sprawl of glass and gleaming white metal set against the snow-capped Wasatch Mountains. On a recent day in a conference room of funk-modern furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows, Todd Pedersen, Vivint’s founder, chief executive […] Continue reading → 
CNET.com Seth Rosenblatt A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Google accuses the tech titan of engaging in widespread fraud by canceling AdSense accounts just before they were due to pay out. The suit relies in part on recent anonymous accusations that Google developed an AdSense fraud scheme in 2009 to prevent publishers from collecting money that […] Continue reading → 
Encrypted Internet traffic is surging worldwide according to data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine. After the Snowden revelations the bandwidth consumed by encrypted traffic doubled in North America, and in Europe and Latin America the share of encrypted traffic quadrupled. Over the years we have been following various reports on Internet traffic changes, […] Continue reading → 
John W Whitehead “The Google services and apps that we interact with on a daily basis aren’t the company’s main product: They are the harvesting machines that dig up and process the stuff that Google really sells: for-profit intelligence.”—Journalist Yasha Levine “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or […] Continue reading → 
Four weeks on, huge swaths of the Internet remain vulnerable to Heartbleed More than four weeks after the disclosure of the so-called Heartbleed bug found in a widely used cryptography package, slightly more or slightly less than half the systems affected by the catastrophic flaw remain vulnerable, according to two recently released estimates. A scan […] Continue reading → 
Michael Schaus The Conservative oriented website dedicated to aggregating news from around the world-wide-interwebs, Weasel Zippers, has just lost its primary funding source because… Well… It’s kinda hard to say. According to the site, Google AdSense (an add generator produced by the infamously liberal corporation in Silicon Valley) has cancelled its agreement with the website […] Continue reading → 
CNET, Attackers can use the “Covert Redirect” vulnerability in both open-source login systems to steal your data and redirect you to unsafe sites. Beware of links that ask you to log in through Facebook. The OAuth 2.0 and OpenID modules are vulnerable. iStockphoto Following in the steps of the OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed, another major flaw […] Continue reading → 
Violet Blue for Pulp Tech Someone claiming to be an ex Google AdSense is claiming the internet giant has systematically robbed its AdSense clients — an allegation Google has quickly denied. Styling themselves as a whistelblower, the individual who published Google AdSense Leak to Pastebin Tuesday, April 29 a detailed timeline of events alleging that Google knowingly shuts down […] Continue reading → 
Daniel Taylor, How will synthetic DNA impact our health and environment? Google is doing all it can these days to prepare for the coming “Singularity”. First, the company hired Transhumanist figurehead Ray Kurzweil to work as its director of engineering. Now, Google has hired top geneticist Cynthia Kenyon to work at Calico, Google’s “moonshot” operation […] Continue reading → 
Google Inc. ‘s costs are rising as the search provider finds it harder to keep up with a shift to advertising on mobile phones and sales fall short of estimates. Revenue, excluding sales passed on to partners, was $12.2 billion in the first quarter, falling short of a projection by analysts for $12.3 billion, according to […] Continue reading →