Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers.
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AI news without the hype—Intelligent Machines breaks down the week’s biggest artificial intelligence stories. With @leo, @jeffjarvis & Paris Martineau. 
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Here's a practical test for Google's AI services. I wont give Google a DIME for AI until they can figure this out.
I took a week off looking at my YouTube comments, and came back to HUNDREDS of low effort, spam-bot, crypto-scam messages. I have to PERSONALLY clear those comments out. Google wants me to "flag them" to help Google moderation tools improve. This is all work I have to do for free, FOR Google. Google cant do anything to help me.
How am I supposed to trust Google AI services with anything actually important, when they can't even get this right?
Dial-up ends, AI brain drain at Apple, UK’s Online Safety Act privacy fallout, Amazon’s Wondery layoffs, nuclear reactors for the moon & more. @leo and guests cover it all! Download here: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1044
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Some thoughts on retiring my Galaxy Note 4 after eleven years of use. https://www.patreon.com/posts/131770771?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
It's proof that a few practical features can help us keep gadgets out of landfills for a really long time.
(Available now for free members on my Patreon.)
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated.
REPLAY CREW! GREAT show this week! https://somegadgetguy.com/2025/08/11/sggqa-407-pixel-10-pro-fold-leaks-intel-collapsing-steam-leaves-chromeos-net-neutrality-vs-supreme-court/
#SGGQA 407: Pixel 10 Pro Fold Leaks, Steam Leaves ChromeOS, Net Neutrality vs Supreme Court
With a LITTLE sprinkling of "Intel Death Spiral" in the news section for good measure...
SomeGadgetGuy · #SGGQA 407: Pixel 10 Pro Fold Leaks, Intel Collapsing, Steam Leaves ChromeOS, Net Neutrality vs Supreme CourtNet Neutrality advocates wont appeal FCC rulings because there’s no trust in the Supreme Court to rule fairly. AI companies face largest copyright lawsuit yet. Far Cry might come to TV! Googl…
AOL is ending dial-up internet after 34 years.
I honestly had no idea they still offered dial-up. I thought they had ended it several years ago.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/aol-is-ending-dial-up-internet-after-34-years-081125.html
ConsumerAffairsAOL is ending dial-up internet after 34 yearsAOL will discontinue its iconic dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025, ending a 34-year run that defined the early days of the Internet. T
The Home Office has permitted police to run facial recognition scans against images held in the UK’s passport and immigration databases without notifying Parliament or the public, say privacy campaigners.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk-police-secretly-use-passport-photos-in-facial-recognition
www.computing.co.ukUK police use passport, immigration photos in facial recognition without public disclosureThe Home Office has permitted police to run facial recognition scans against images held in the UK’s passport and immigration databases without notifying Parliament or ...
Daily podcast: Columbia University, Google, Salesforce, Air France, Pandora, Cisco, Chanel and so much more insanity are all part of this week's segment...
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Google has introduced a visual upgrade to Android's headphone and earbud status notifications, making it easier to check the accessories' power levels.
Early Access on Patreon! GameSir's GameHub can emulate PC GAMES on Android! Let's see how performance compares between Qualcomm chips and MediaTek chips! SHOWDOWN!
This video was ROUGH to put together (and of course there's an extended cranky rant at the end). I'm really going to need some help sharing this one!
Podcasting Is Bigger Than Ever—but Not Without Its Growing Pains (FAST COMPANY, 08 August 2025)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91380550/podcasting-is-bigger-than-ever-but-not-without-its-growing-pains
Fast Company · Podcasting is bigger than ever—but not without its growing painsTalking heads have nudged out storytellers. Video is becoming as essential as audio. And the medium’s key platform might not even be a podcast app.
Leaked Pixel Buds 2a Spec Sheet
Americans aged 60 and older lost a staggering $700 million to online scams in 2024, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
A malicious campaign dubbed 'GreedyBear' has snuck onto the Mozilla add-ons store, targeting Firefox users with 150 malicious extensions and stealing an estimated $1,000,000 from unsuspecting victims.
Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces "hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine".
Ars Technica · AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
All kinds of awful.
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant."
https://futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian
Futurism · Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant"
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
KQED · SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?