Meta and Facebook: From connecting college kids to changing the world

Twenty-two years after Facebook launched for college students, those innocent days—when social media meant sharing pet photos ...

7 Discontinued Smartphone Features We Want Back (And 7 That Can Stay Gone)

Smartphone features come and go in cycles, but some should come back for good. Swappable batteries, headphone jacks, and ...
PC World

Google Drive now detects ransomware and auto-restores your files

PCWorld reports Google Drive now automatically detects ransomware attacks and enables users to restore files to their pre-attack state without paying ransom demands. The enhanced security feature ...
CNBC

Epstein victims sue Google and the Trump administration over alleged disclosure of personal information

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit against Google and the Trump administration, alleging wrongful disclosure of personal information. The suit claims Google's search and AI ...
Digital Trends

Gemini in Google Slides can now pull info from your emails and files to build slides

Google is continuing to expand the role of Gemini across its productivity apps, and Google Slides is now getting a fresh set of AI-powered upgrades. Gemini already helps users generate images, ...
Wired

Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files

Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, ...
Reuters

Google hit by European publishers' complaint to EU over AI Overviews

BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab unit Google was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council on Tuesday over its AI-generated summaries known as ...
Search Engine Land

Google lists Googlebot file limits for crawling

Google has updated two of its help documents to explain the limits of Googlebot when it crawls. Specifically, how much Googlebot can consume by filetype and format. The limits. The limits, some of ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Googlebot File Limit Is 15MB But 64MB For PDF & 2MB For Other File Types

We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google updated some of its help documentation to clarify that it will crawl the first 64MB of a PDF file and ...
Road to VR

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Team Does Not Endorse LLMs.txt Files

Yep, back on comments from Google on the LLMs.txt file. Another question came up on Bluesky asking if the fact that some Google properties still have the LLMs.txt files up, if that is some sort of ...
CNBC

Google files to appeal search monopoly case

Google on Friday filed to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the company held an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search. The appeal could result in a delay of remedies against the ...