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3 votes
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It’s Warren Buffett versus Google, Facebook in latest wind-farm debate
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
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Is LaMDA Sentient? - An Interview
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Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year
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Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding
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Who made these circles in the Sahara?
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Google logged my mother out of all devices and now she can't login
[SOLVED] Thank you so much for everyone's support and suggestions, it seems that I may have overreacted a little bit. One of the things that I did was send a form to Google, but the form was not...
[SOLVED]
Thank you so much for everyone's support and suggestions, it seems that I may have overreacted a little bit. One of the things that I did was send a form to Google, but the form was not really for this issue, so I wasn't hopeful at all. To my surprise, I received a message just now with instructions to recover the account and change the 2-factor phone number to my mother's current one. The cause of the issue is not clear, but whatever it was, they sorted it out. She is obviously ecstatic, when I went to her house two days ago I couldn't disguise my pessimism.
I set her recovery email to my own and will generate recovery codes shortly, so we're good for now. I instructed her on how to download all her data from Google (it's easier than I thought), just because this made her quite paranoid, and I'll take the opportunity to gradually move my family out of Google, as well as myself. Thanks for being so supportive, this was very stressful, to say the least! Sometimes it's nice to know we're not alone ;)
Original post
So, for some reason Google logged my mother of everything at once: browsers in two laptops and two smartphones (one Android and one iPhone). Trying to recover the account sends a message to a cellphone number she no longer has. I understand Google is basically unreachable, but there must be something I can do, right? We're not famous, but she does pay for YouTube Premium.
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Noto Emoji: A new black and white emoji font
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Contra Chrome
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Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
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Google said Steam had arrived on Chromebooks, but now says it’s ‘coming soon’
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Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations
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Facebook, Google and other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
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Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
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Is Firefox okay?
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Chrome OS Flex announced
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New Chrome 0-day bug under active attack
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Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox
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Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan
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Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Alphabet-owned Google for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results
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Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted
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Google is forcing me to dump a perfectly good phone
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Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is actually a failure.
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After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
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January 6 committee subpoenas Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit in probe of Capitol attack
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Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
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“Imagine if doctors relied on Google as much as programmers do”
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Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
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How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
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I just want to serve 5 terabytes
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Google's Tensor inside of Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro: A look into performance and efficiency
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
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Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
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Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
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Youtube screws me over for three years and counting
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Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
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Google co-founder Larry Page gets New Zealand residency
13 votes -
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
Apple, Google and aligned incentives
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The Google Olympics doodle contains a pretty entertaining game today
google.com - Should be on the main page, click, watch (or don't) the cute little opening cartoon, enjoy various games across an island with various stories behind each area.
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Authenticated brand logos in Gmail will roll out over the coming weeks
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Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees, after a senior executive announced he's moving to New Zealand in what some workers consider special treatment
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Google Search has an unfair performance advantage in Chrome (on Android)
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Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
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Why Google Play’s APK replacement is scaring some security experts
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Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
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In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
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Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
15 votes