Google keeps failing its Nest customers(9to5google.com)

169 points by hnburnsy 3 years ago | 119 comments

Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia(9to5google.com)

176 points by thecosmicfrog 3 years ago | 163 comments

Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams(9to5google.com)

179 points by thesuperbigfrog 3 years ago | 167 comments

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers(9to5google.com)

221 points by speckx 4 months ago | 264 comments

Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading(9to5google.com)

122 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 28 comments

Gmail is showing ads in the middle of the inbox(9to5google.com)

79 points by microflash 3 years ago | 89 comments

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud(theregister.com)

428 points by johnshades 1 year ago | 113 comments

The Register article reporting Amazon will end on-device Alexa voice processing on March 28, 2025, sending all Echo voice requests to the cloud.

Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions(wsj.com)

428 points by marban 2 years ago | 770 comments

WSJ article on Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices losing billions despite being in millions of homes; the page loaded a captcha bot check instead.

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders(theguardian.com)

836 points by skilled 1 year ago | 332 comments

Guardian investigation reporting that Israel required Google and Amazon to use a secret signal to alert it to foreign legal orders as part of a cloud contract.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash(wired.com)

444 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 397 comments

Wired article reporting that Microsoft will make its AI Recall screen-recording feature opt-in and add privacy protections after security criticism.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.