So the Russians will get lost

Google has temporarily disabled for Ukraine some Google Maps tools which provide live information about traffic conditions and how busy different places are.

 
All that privacy it brags about? Turns out not so much

While Apple, and its fanboys, have been lecturing about how much privacy the fruity cargo cult offers customers, it turns out it is considerably more friendly with law enforcement than they think.

Sort of

When the Australian government stood up to Big Tech most expected it to cave in after Google threatened to leave the country, but it did not happen.

Game loaded with add trackers

A month after Apple’s favourite newspaper, the New York Times, bought Wordle it has loaded it with advertising trackers.

Apple faces the power of Orange and Google faces thousands

Apple and Google face a potential class action lawsuit in the Netherlands over app store charges, after a foundation headed by Dutch entrepreneur Alexander Klopping began gathering claimants.

What could possibly go wrong?

Google’s AI Deep Mind has been brushing up on nuclear reactors and now can control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

Closed source is slower 

Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and it looks like no one stomps on bugs faster than a Linux developer.

All hell about to break lose

The use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France -- after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month.

Needs something to go with the tea

Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it had accepted a revised offer from Google of commitments relating to its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.

Following anti-trust ruling

Search engine outfit Google has been sued by price comparison website PriceRunner for €2.1 billion because of its anti-competitive search result practices.