335 stories tagged google, newest first.
42 points by gnabgib | 32 comments
MakeUseOf article explaining how Google ended cloud support for first- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats, leaving them as manual thermostats, and mentions an open-source fix.
213 points by rustybolt | 164 comments
New York Post report that Google cleared about 250,000 trees in northern Finland for data centers before environmental approval, prompting Finnish authorities to suspend work.
8 points by mikelgan | 2 comments
Computerworld news article on Google's deal with Voltus for a 1GW virtual power plant that pays consumers to cut electricity use, freeing grid capacity for data centers.
315 points by JustSkyfall | 163 comments
Verge news article reporting that Google's updated privacy policy allows Gmail, Drive, and Photos data shared with AI features to be used for personalized ads.
340 points by NackerHughes | 326 comments
Keep Android Open campaign page counting down to Google's 2027 developer verification requirement that would block apps from unregistered developers on Android devices.
288 points by wetwater | 235 comments
TechSpot news article on Finnish regulators questioning Google's clearing of 300 hectares of forest for a data center before environmental review finished.
78 points by saikatsg | 6 comments
BBC investigation reporting that Google DeepMind staff have resigned over the company's AI contracts with the US and Israeli militaries.
359 points by kaycebasques | 249 comments
Google's official Rust style guide covering code organization, formatting, ownership, APIs, traits, concurrency, naming and other conventions for Rust at Google.
366 points by ilreb | 90 comments
GitHub repository for TorchTPU, Google's open-source native PyTorch backend for running models on Cloud TPUs.
110 points by evolve2k | 94 comments
The Verge report on popular websites blocking AI agents from OpenAI, Meta, and Google from accessing and acting on their services.
79 points by signa11 | 23 comments
LWN article covering Sharon Yang's FOSSY 2026 talk comparing Chromium development work at Google versus the employee-owned cooperative Igalia.
421 points by Brajeshwar | 108 comments
Android Authority article reporting that Android's opt-out phone number verification setting links your phone number across every Google account signed in on the device.
201 points by xnx | 45 comments
Google for Developers blog post announcing Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics, a Gemini model variant aimed at robotics applications.
193 points by surprisetalk | 74 comments
Blog post revisiting AI-related predictions from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable a decade later, quoting excerpts like Google's main product becoming AI.
204 points by soeckly | 101 comments
A security writeup describing how a self-contained Flask session secret on Google DevSite enabled forged sessions and remote code execution across seven Google domains for a $90,000 bounty.
66 points by andsoitis | 59 comments
Google's Data Centers site with an interactive map and search for locating the data centers Google owns and operates worldwide.
401 points by heyimada | 115 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Google was ordered to halt work on two Finnish datacentre sites after failing to carry out environmental impact assessments.
111 points by colinprince | 37 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that hackers compromised three domain registries and obtained unauthorized TLS certificates for Google and other large services.
4 points by 59percentmore | 8 comments
Ask HN thread posing a hypothetical where the US government nationalizes Alphabet to restore Google Search quality and remove LLM features.
5 points by tosh | 0 comments
Google AI Studio post on X announcing Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation model with better visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency.
395 points by ilreb | 42 comments
Google blog post announcing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open lightweight on-device model that embeds text, images, audio, and video into a unified space.
469 points by sensanaty | 608 comments
Local Nebraska TV news report on how an improperly redacted annual report revealed water and electricity usage of Google's Lincoln data center.
6 points by birdculture | 0 comments
gVisor blog post announcing that the gVisor container sandbox project is being donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
17 points by xnx | 3 comments
GitHub directory in Google's mozc-devices repo containing board, firmware, images, and STL files for a conveyor-belt Gboard/Mozc input device.
329 points by speckx | 140 comments
OSNews article reporting that Google is breaking its promise of 10 years of updates for Chromebooks following the launch of its Googlebook platform.
149 points by 0xcrypto | 44 comments
An X post by a hobbyist developer complaining about Google's Android Developer Verification Program, its $25 fee, and identity requirements for distributing APKs.
71 points by theanonymousone | 29 comments
Artificial Analysis model page benchmarking Google's Gemini 4 Argon (High) on intelligence index, speed, and price.
1675 points by bradleyg223 | 1157 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model aimed at software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense.
43 points by speckx | 46 comments
A blog post arguing that people should stop using "google" as a verb meaning to search the web.
126 points by pwim | 41 comments
A TokyoDev article by Marco Cognetta on completing a computer science PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT scholarship while working at Google.
158 points by rbanffy | 120 comments
The Register article reporting Google will cut ChromeOS support for Chromebooks from a promised ten years to eight as it shifts to Googlebook.
89 points by pranshuchittora | 47 comments
A post by Gergely Orosz on X reporting that Firebase's SDK began crashing all iOS apps using it, with screenshots of GitHub issue comments from affected developers.
1899 points by sancho-panza | 1065 comments
A Bear Blog post titled "When did Google get so weird?"; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.
165 points by Murmuring9087 | 175 comments
Personal blog post by Robert O'Callahan titled "Goodbye Google", apparently announcing his departure from Google.
41 points by sbulaev | 41 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test, carrying four TPUs and running 15 minutes at a time, launches October 1.
212 points by xnx | 460 comments
Google blog post introducing a video series on Project Suncatcher, its moonshot effort to scale AI compute with infrastructure in space, and the engineering challenges ahead.
310 points by swolpers | 137 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS audio generation models, available across AI Studio, Gemini API, and other Google products.
31 points by grigy | 36 comments
Google blog post announcing CC, an experimental Google Labs AI agent designed to help families and households manage logistics.
47 points by giuliomagnifico | 69 comments
Norwegian SciTech News article on a study finding that users aged 9 to 18 are turning from Google search to AI chatbots, with uncertain consequences.
70 points by DeepLogin | 31 comments
Irish Data Protection Commission press release announcing a €403 million fine against Google following an inquiry into its processing of location data.
623 points by blazarquasar | 284 comments
Landing page for AX, an open agentic orchestrator from Google that sandboxes declared agent tasks, sets up workspaces, fences networks, and runs them at scale.
1113 points by theanonymousone | 656 comments
A GrapheneOS Mastodon post noting Android 17 QPR1 adds new developer APIs exclusive to Pixel OS without a corresponding AOSP source release.
327 points by inputmice | 315 comments
A Mastodon post by Daniel Gultsch complaining that Google Play app review now often takes over a week, with a screenshot of the Play Console releases page.
479 points by leumon | 316 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, live voice dialogue models with improved intelligence and parallel reasoning.
891 points by iamflimflam1 | 384 comments
A blog post on atomic14 asking why Google continues to serve scam or malicious ads despite reports.
365 points by lukaspetersson | 326 comments
BBC News article reporting that Google has picked Finland for its largest single investment in Europe, tied to buying nuclear power for data centres.
508 points by ExMachina73 | 89 comments
Jeff Johnson's blog post reporting that Chrome 152 again exempts Google-owned sites from the user setting to delete site data, six years after a similar bug.
463 points by donohoe | 329 comments
New York Times article on a court ruling that lets Google avoid a forced breakup of its ad tech business; the capture shows a captcha page instead of the article.
606 points by twapi | 459 comments
Blog post reporting that Google removed all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, from the Chrome Web Store.
595 points by blenderob | 400 comments
Terence Eden blog post ranting that Google's Android calendar app on a Pixel can't subscribe to an events calendar from a URL link.
338 points by k9294 | 119 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for precise real-time transcription.
737 points by Animux | 283 comments
GrapheneOS Mastodon post saying Google replaced Git tags for some Android source code with Google Drive downloads requested via Google Forms, violating GPLv2.
544 points by pseudolus | 371 comments
The Register article reporting that Google paid $10 million at auction for defunct Spirit Airlines' data, including emails and recorded calls, for AI use.
473 points by u1hcw9nx | 276 comments
Google Security blog post by Jeremy Kun on how Google is using homomorphic encryption to make privacy-preserving AI practical.
930 points by thisisauserid | 470 comments
Google's Gemini API documentation page for Gemini 3.7 Flash, the next multimodal reasoning model in the Gemini 3 series.
392 points by 0xedb | 448 comments
Google for Developers blog post by Cameron Balahan and Richard Seroter arguing that Go is well suited to AI-assisted software engineering.
351 points by ot | 200 comments
Axios article reporting that Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind; the capture shows only a Cloudflare bot check.
817 points by colesantiago | 871 comments
Google blog post by Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis announcing leadership changes at Google DeepMind, with Hassabis moving from CEO to Chair and Chief Scientist.
541 points by pudgywalsh | 190 comments
An Open RSS blog post arguing that Google's product decisions and behavior significantly reduced adoption of RSS feeds.
536 points by Garbage | 548 comments
Google Security blog post from the Chrome Security Team on how Chrome uses AI to improve vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching.
941 points by shscs911 | 459 comments
Blog post warning that proposed Android changes may restrict on-device ADB, affecting Shizuku, libadb, power-user apps and developer setups.
731 points by logickkk1 | 550 comments
Google blog post announcing the Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber models, aimed at efficient, low-latency AI agents at scale.
347 points by xnx | 167 comments
Google blog post announcing that NotebookLM is being renamed Gemini Notebook, with broader Google ecosystem integration and a secure cloud computer.
347 points by compiler-guy | 189 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Vint Cerf, known as the 'Father of the Internet', is retiring.
631 points by javxfps | 356 comments
A security researcher's blog post describing a vulnerability that allowed leaking YouTube creators' private videos.
1630 points by drewfax | 698 comments
F-Droid blog post criticizing Google's Android Developer Verification requirement, framing it as malware-like control over app installation on Android devices.
650 points by donohoe | 279 comments
Waag Futurelab article arguing that European digital ID wallets depend on Google and Apple device attestation services, reinforcing Big Tech power.
828 points by taubek | 120 comments
Gergely Orosz's blog post describing how startup Pollen tried to get his article about its CEO and CTO removed, and how Google assisted the takedown.
575 points by justinwp | 339 comments
An X post by Justin Poehnelt saying Google fired him after he created the viral Google Workspace CLI, and describing internal reactions and legal concerns.
358 points by barqawiz | 343 comments
APNIC blog post by George Michaelson discussing Google's measurements showing IPv6 usage among its users reaching 50% for the first time.
324 points by lukasgross | 313 comments
A post on X by Noam Shazeer announcing he is leaving Google and joining OpenAI.
893 points by ahlCVA | 489 comments
The Decoder article reporting on a German court ruling that treats Google's AI Overviews as Google's own statements, making it liable for false answers.
696 points by unclefuzzy | 535 comments
MacRumors article reporting Apple's announcement of a new Apple Intelligence architecture built on foundation models developed with Google using Gemini technologies.
658 points by martinald | 507 comments
Blog post by Martin Alderson arguing xAI's capacity deals with Anthropic and Google make it resemble a datacentre REIT more than a frontier AI lab.
403 points by ramanan | 577 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing capacity.
384 points by theanonymousone | 120 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemma 4 models trained with Quantization-Aware Training to cut memory use and improve on-device performance on mobile and laptops.
1007 points by rvz | 379 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemma 4 12B, an encoder-free multimodal model designed to run on laptops with mobile-first efficiency and advanced reasoning.
1115 points by speckx | 750 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author left Gmail after being annoyed by unrequested AI-generated message summaries and draft replies.
1272 points by nopg | 764 comments
Announcement about YouTube automatically detecting and labeling AI-generated videos for viewers and creators.
392 points by iamacyborg | 389 comments
Blog essay by Jacques Corby-Tuech on how Apple and Google have increasingly intervened in and filtered push notifications, drawing parallels with email.
1021 points by HelloUsername | 496 comments
PC Gamer news article reporting DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week after Google claimed people love its AI mode.
460 points by elorant | 430 comments
TechCrunch article recommending six alternative search engines to try as Google Search shifts toward AI-driven results.
712 points by ssiddharth | 316 comments
A personal blog post complaining that Google's Antigravity coding tool was changed into a standalone Codex-style experience after I/O 2026, framed as a bait and switch.
470 points by cdrnsf | 303 comments
A blog post on tante.cc (Smashing Frames) arguing that Google's recent moves amount to declaring war on the open web.
319 points by tigerlily | 199 comments
BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on how people manipulate Google's AI search results and how Google is quietly countering it.
358 points by primaprashant | 189 comments
Google for Developers blog post announcing the transition of Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI, with Gemini CLI ceasing to work from June 18, 2026.
925 points by spectraldrift | 629 comments
Google's Gemini API documentation page for the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, a faster, lower-cost model aimed at agentic and coding workflows.
423 points by tencentshill | 288 comments
MacDailyNews article reporting the U.S. DOJ demanding Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of a car-tinkering app as part of an emissions crackdown.
421 points by happyhardcore | 223 comments
Google Project Zero blog post by Seth Jenkins describing a zero-click exploit chain achieving root on the Google Pixel 10, following an earlier Pixel 9 chain.
888 points by tambourine_man | 1474 comments
Google's product landing page introducing Googlebook, a new category of laptops, shown with an animated intro video featuring the keyboard.