Google said in a blog post that the decision was based on its practice of using names assigned by the U.S. Geographic Names Information System, also known as GNIS.

Привет Хабр! Меня зовут Давид Замирович и это моя вторая статья тут.

Первая была на тему того, как меня забанил VC за статью о возможных фишинговых ссылках в паразитном SEO на их ресурсе и о моей героической борьбе (успешной) с их системой модерации контента. В комментариях к ней меня попросили взять в проработку несколько тем — и хотел бы начать с проблемы использования рекомендательных технологий и передачи персональных данных в LLM.

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Кнопка удобная: не надо придумывать пароль, не надо подтверждать почту, два клика — и вы внутри. Пользуются ей почти все, а вот что именно происходит при нажатии, представляют немногие. Между тем ответ на этот вопрос виден прямо в адресной строке, и посмотреть его стоит один раз, чтобы дальше решать осознанно.

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Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process. 

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

Начиная примерно с вечера 26 августа, на ТСПУ стали перехватывать DNS запросы к крупным DNS серверам CloudFlare и Google (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8), ранее блокировали DoH сервера от данных корпораций.

Результат DNS резолвинга выглядит следующим образом:

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Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine

Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

“AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever,” Liz Reid, Google’s vice-president of search, wrote last August. In May, the company said more AI is coming.

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© Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners.

A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.