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• [ Google Issues ] Administrivia: Change to From: address for some of my lists Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI is flooding TikTok with racist videos Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How passkeys contribute to phishing Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Responses to post on passkeys Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Another issue with passkeys Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Precedent for ICE agent location app in Google Maps Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] ICEBlock and Android Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech bros, public computers, and passkeys Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] James Bond meets the CEO Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech CEOs vis-a-vis Bond Villains Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script from my national radio report yesterday on innocent users locked out of Google accounts, and Google's atrocious account recovery policies -- and more Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] EVIL: The most disgusting Google Doodle in history today -- the jumping "AI Mode" G from Hell Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] My national radio tech report topic for tomorrow will be how easily you can be locked out of Google and other sites, and lose your entire "digital life" in the process Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Who is to blame for the AI nightmare? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Study on AI non-use is a nightmare Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Gaslighting Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Promise vs. Reaility of AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech workers: If Big Tech hasn't betrayed you yet ... they will eventually. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Generative AI in general, for lack of a more precise, targeted term for what billionaire Big Tech CEOs are doing with it to society, is: POISON Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Under 150!] Social Media bans Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] L.A. residents are finding creative (and simple) ways to disable disruptive Waymo robotaxis Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] About that AI ruling today Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] What Google should have named their robotic AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Rumors that OpenAI has been working on a ChatGPT integrated competitor to Google Workplace and MS Outlook Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Much of Big Tech is in bed with the fascists] Biometric authentication not recommended Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] About that "billions of passwords leaked" story going around Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Cloudflare CEO says AI is decimating the sites they steal from -- virtually nobody clicks on sources Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Meta's AI Discover Feed is a privacy nightmare, one of the worst in the history of the Internet Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script from my national radio tech report yesterday on the topic of how Big Tech seems to often be making AI safety worse, instead of better Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How Google AI Overviews can destroy your VPN Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] More on Google AI generated scam videos Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Topic for my national radio segment today: Big Tech AI safety is getting worse Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's Waymo problem is even worse than it seems Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Meta AI app is a privacy disaster Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Source of global Internet outage is apparently Google Cloud (GCP) Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] This is a VERY BAD mistake for Google to make: AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Odd Google Search links Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Don't put it past Trump to try shut down Internet communication and mobile services when he gets really desperate. Or at least he'll try. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Administrivia: Seems fair: Reader told me to "shut the F up" in response to my Trump post Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] PEOPLE: THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR BUSINESS AND POSTING AS USUAL! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Why are Waymo cars being torched in L.A.? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google responds re Brute Forcing of Account phone numbers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] More on brute forcing Google Account system to reveal users' phone numbers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Google CEO Sundar kissing Trump's fascist ass] Report: YouTube secretly now encouraging harmful content by telling content moderators to favor Trumpian "free expression" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Bad move, Google] YouTube strikes Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Reddit sues Anthropic over AI scraping that retained users' deleted posts Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, sensitive chats, etc. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] A cold day in Hell: I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene about AI regulation Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The people at the root of the AI nightmares Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [A new era -- of HORROR] FDA launches horrifying generative AI tool ahead of schedule -- how long before its inevitable errors kill someone? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Interview with Google DeepMind's CEO shows that he's brilliant, but apparently horrifyingly ignorant about human nature and ordinary people's lives Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI is not unethical ... BUT ... Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Stop blaming the users! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on generative AI mistakes and Google's AI push Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Trump partners with Palantir to create massive fascist database of all government information on every American, presumably to ease mass arrests. Are there enough boxcars? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Never underestimate Big Tech's ability for evil Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Topic for my Monday national radio tech segment tomorrow -- Google's AI invades email, and assorted related AI topics Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Judge rejects claim AI chatbots protected by First Amendment Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Generative AI as a restaurant Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] As usual, Google AI Overviews screw up and inconvenience people -- with literal garbage! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google moves to force AI Summaries (yes, Gemini is reading your email) on all users (but you can disable them) Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The job role you'll never find at Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it's now 2024 Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] When people say AI is working for them ... Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews now frequently invent "answers" when it has no answers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Billions of dollars. Untold megawatts of power. To create a low grade Google AI Moron. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews can't even get the current date correct! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] "AI Slop" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google knows they are destroying sites Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] App store age gating laws will encourage sideloading Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Texas enacts train wreck "protect the children" app store law Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script from my national radio report yesterday on the topic of whether or not you should choose to use AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] People hate data centers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Bizarre problem with the YouTube user interface Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech as drug pushers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI chatbots channeling Tevye Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google charging $250/month for an AI plan seems right in line with its billionaire CEO Sundar palling around with fascist Trump Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Bluesky and Google -- why you can't assume it's the same old Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] What the hell is Bluesky thinking? Bluesky "verification" and Google Forms Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The topic for my Monday national network radio tech segment: "Why I don't use AI, and maybe you shouldn't either." Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Do I use AI? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How Google Supports Dangerous Phishing Email Attacks Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Dark LLMs: The Growing Threat of Unaligned AI Models Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's "groupthink" is indeed evil Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft' Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google putting wrong medical advice in their AI Overviews Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Generative AI, basically, is a trap. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on how the U.S. is losing its lead in technology and science research Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] LLMs and Generative AI: The jobs and education killing machines Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] A popular YouTuber tore open the Google Pixel 9a and found a big red flag Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] In my humble opinion, the entire concept of AGI -- Artificial General Intelligence -- as hyped by Big Tech is nothing more than marketing garbage, and Big Tech knows this. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] YouTube ads Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Correction: It's Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a previous law was "PA" (Protection Act). KOSA could wreck the Internet for everyone and everything. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Apple says it supports the horrible and dangerous Kids Online Protection Act (KOPA) that would trigger censorship and require Internet users to be identified via government credentials Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Google Gemini and other AI tools] Judge slams lawyers for "bogus AI-generated research" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews are devastating websites, taking everything for Google and almost nothing for the sites Google AI sucks data from Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech wants AI to replace all jobs Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] STUDY: Generative AI and Perceptual Harms: Who's Suspected of using LLMs? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] On my national radio tech segment tomorrow, why the proposed DOJ "remedies" in the Google antitrust ligation are very bad ideas Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Predicting that the Trump administration will replace their current cryptographic security protocols with "uuencode" to improve operational security. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Asked again about Google account recovery Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google may push automatically converting passwords to passkeys -- I recommend saying NO Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] STUDY: Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] REPORT: A device belonging to a DOGE software engineer was hacked, report says Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google is saying "screw you" to paying YouTube subscribers Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] It looks like this YouTube abomination has been going on for months, just finally got around to me Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's awful changes to the the YouTube TV interface Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Technologists need to get it into their (our) thick skulls that "business as usual" is not tenable during a fascist takeover of our country. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI is worse than hype Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Source code for unofficial Signal app being used by some Trump officials Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Official White House YouTube channel: Chinese music and animated Trump Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI Overviews and "Our Man Flint" bonus! How many fingers and toes? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Hilarious Google AI Overview stupidity, as demonstrated regarding the film "Our Man Flint" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI and CEOs and the ghosts Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Big Tech CEOs are using AI to destroy our society Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Univ. of Zurich researchers [rightly] face outrage over their secret AI experiment on Reddit, face possible legal and other actions, will not publish Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Kaplan appears correct about Meta's AI misinformation] Meta executive publicly apologizes to conservative influencer for AI responses Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Don't use Google AI Search Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google and Passkeys Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Non-Techies and AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's CEO and AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Sundar on his fire/electricity rant again Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday: How the mistreatment of employees by Big Tech puts us all at risk Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] My national radio topic for Monday: How Big Tech mistreatment of their employees puts us all at risk Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Big Tech Gives Workers the Shaft] Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Disgusting behavior by Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google, get of your ass and fix your Gmail PayPal phishing disaster Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google claims billions are using AI Overviews, even though you get them automatically in search -- and Google refuses to discuss how sites are being starved of clicks by AI Overviews Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Major privacy concerns as Google monitors and analyzes Local Service Ads phone calls! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Analogy to taking Chrome from Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Splitting off Chrome from Google is a TERRIBLE idea Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google reverses completely, will continue to embrace third-party cookies in Chrome Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google Gmail and Phishing Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How AI can lose you customers! - An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy - and Created a Mess Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Beware of Google's latest passkeys push! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] NEXTGOV: [CVE] MITRE-backed cyber vulnerability program to lose funding Wednesday Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Em dashes considered a sign of AI-written text (not joking, but hilarious) Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Your future at Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [Google HR is apparently taking their cues from fascist Trump/DOGE] Note by a newly ex-Googler, suddenly eliminated, even though they were supposed to be on stage at Google I/O and more Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Lauren's Blog: The Enormous Negative Impacts of the New Tariffs on the Technology Sector Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on the likely effects of Trump's tariffs on technology products and services Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Evil: Google's AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using "aggressive" noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the U.K. that bar them from working for competitors for up to a year Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google AI search shift leaves website makers feeling 'betrayed' Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The vast majority of phishing attacks I see use Google Cloud (GCP) APIs as their payload links. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] UCLA Computer Club punched card at National Museum of American History Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How would today's CEOs feel about Hitler? Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] DO NOT FORGET this Big Tech CEOs responsible for helping to destroy this country and more! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] In deeply evil move bending over to suck Trump's you-know-what, Google's YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday regarding Trump administration Signal controversy Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Trump's "security" team on Signal, vis-a-vis Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Warning regarding AI contamination of Google Gmail search function Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my radio report yesterday on people at risk from ending of phone support, with DOGE and Social Security as a prime example Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Creating a nongovernmental misinformation-fighting replacement for the Voice of America Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Administrivia: About those typos in posts Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google joins OpenAI in calling on federal government to screw everyone else in favor of AI firms -- and stop worrying about the risks! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Another nail in Google's coffin: Google is breaking Google Home and Assistant by forcing migration to misinformation-spewing and self-censoring Gemini AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How to know when a Google employee has been fired Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Report: As they pour money into garbage AI, Google laying off another 40K workers, including crucial areas like customer "support" and Trust & Safety Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Discussion at Google Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The reality of Google search ranking Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Report shows AI search and AI chatbots are destroying the sites they feed on, with abysmal click-through rates (91% to 96% fewer than traditional search) Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The Google AI Brain at Work! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] [The Fascist Way] Google scrubs mentions of 'diversity' and 'equity' from responsible AI team webpage Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler's Mein Kampf Is 'a True Work of Art' Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The day I stop using Google Search Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google is now testing AI-only search results, giving you 100% misinformation instead of links Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national radio report yesterday on controversy regarding Google's Android "SafetyCore" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] My national radio tech segment topic for tomorrow: Controversy over Google's Android "SafetyCore" Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's [Billionaire] Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google sneaks "sensitive content" photo scanning onto Android phones -- doesn't bother informing users Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Regarding Google's announcement regarding ending use of SMS for account recovery, and moving to QR codes Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] The rise and horrific fall of the U.S. Digital Service (now DOGE): From savior to evil Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] 21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my national report yesterday on expected increases in the cost of Internet services Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] My national radio tech report tomorrow Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Cornered by the UK's Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] In opposition to UK global spying order, Apple instead disables E2E cloud encryption Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Another lovely Google AI Overview answer! Garbage .. garbage ... garbage! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] How many active duty military are there in the U.S.? Let's ask Google and see what Google AI Overviews say! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google's horrible AI Overviews do it again! Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Script of my Monday radio report on 20 years of YouTube Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Tomorrow on my national radio tech segment: YouTube at 20 Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Reports that DOGE website already hacked. Yep, sure looks that way. Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were Recorded by Google's Gemini AI Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] I chatted with Google Gemini about the Gulf of Mexico -- it suggested ways to pressure Google on the issue Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Don't Believe Fascist Google About the Gulf Lauren Weinstein
• [ Google Issues ] Google blocking discussion of their "Gulf of America" fiasco in the context of Google Maps is another clear signal of how deeply compromised they've become Lauren Weinstein

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