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Google Pixel 8a : tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le smartphone abordable

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Yesterday - 16:42

Le prochain smartphone de milieu de gamme de Google approche et les fuites se multiplient. Voici tout ce qu'il faut savoir avant la sortie du Pixel 8a.

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Google Maps : cette option très pratique revient dans la recherche Google

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Yesterday - 15:38

Disparu depuis la mise en place du DMA, Google Maps semble faire son retour dans les résultats de recherche de Google.

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pubsub.blastersklan.com / slashdot · Yesterday - 15:38 edit · 1 minute

Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search. From a report: Google Search rankings are all too familiar to search engine optimization (SEO) specialists charged with ensuring web pages rise to the top of search results. In the case of Tutao's products -- Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar -- all was going well until the beginning of March 2024, when the company claims tuta.com was abruptly de-ranked in Google Search. Rather than being displayed as a search result of thousands of keywords, the count dropped to the hundreds, the developer alleges. Matthias Pfau, co-founder of Tuta Mail, said: "This reduction in Google Search took us by surprise as we did not change anything on our website during that time. We tried to reach out to Google about this issue, but were met with radio silence." Google denies the claims. It told The Reg: "Search ranking updates absolutely do not aim to preference Google products, or any other particular website. The email provider in question is easily accessible globally on Search. We appreciate the feedback and will look into how we can ensure Search continues to return the most helpful, relevant results." Tuta Mail's Pfau claims a change in results mean that when a user searches for "encrypted email," Tuta's products no longer show up. However, he went on to allege that if you search for "Tuta" or "Tutanota," the company appears in the results.

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Encrypted Email Service Files DMA Complaint Claiming It Vanished from Google Search

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Google parent Alphabet hits $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 15:27

Tech company’s shares rise as it plans to reward investors after strong quarterly results

Google’s parent company has hit a stock market value of $2tn (£1.6tn) as investors reacted to a declaration of its first ever dividend alongside strong results on Thursday.

Shares in Alphabet rose 10% in early Wall Street trading on Friday to give the tech group a stock market capitalisation – a measure of a corporation’s value – of more than $2tn. Alphabet last hit that level in intraday trading in 2021, but has yet to close above that benchmark after a day’s trading.

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Google Pixel : cette nouvelle mise à jour corrige un bug très génant

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Yesterday - 07:34

Google déploie exceptionnellement une deuxième mise à jour en avril. Elle résout des problèmes de connectivité gênants.

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Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 17:30 · 1 minute

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Will Chrome, the world's most popular browser, ever kill third-party cookies? Apple and Mozilla both killed off the user-tracking technology in 2020 . Google, the world's largest advertising company, originally said it wouldn't kill third-party cookies until 2022 . Then in 2021, it delayed the change until 2023. In 2022, it delayed everything again, until 2024 . It's 2024 now, and guess what? Another delay. Now Google says it won't turn off third-party cookies until 2025, five years after the competition.

A new blog post cites UK regulations as the reason for the delay, saying, "We recognize that there are ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, regulators and developers, and will continue to engage closely with the entire ecosystem." The post comes as part of the quarterly reports the company is producing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Interestingly, the UK’s CMA isn't concerned about user privacy but instead is worried about other web advertisers that compete with Google. The UK wants to make sure that Google isn't making changes to Chrome to prop up its advertising business at the expense of competitors. While other browser vendors shut down third-party cookies without a second thought, Google said it wouldn't turn off the user-tracking feature until it built an alternative advertising feature directly into Chrome, so it can track user interests to serve them relevant ads. The new advertising system, called the Topics API and "Privacy Sandbox," launched in Chrome in 2023. Google AdSense is already compatible .

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Google Pixel 8a : une vidéo de prise en main fuite avant son lancement

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 3 days ago - 08:43

Le Google Pixel 8a n'a décidément plus aucun secret et apparaît désormais dans une vidéo de prise en main. Avec ces images, on sait à quoi ressemble le prochain smartphone abordable de Google.

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L’anéantissement des cookies tiers sur Chrome aura finalement lieu plus tard

news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 08:37

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Le plan de Google pour retirer les cookies tiers de son navigateur Chrome peine à se concrétiser. Présenté en 2020, il est en train de glisser en 2025.

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pubsub.blastersklan.com / slashdot · 4 days ago - 14:43 edit · 1 minute

Google has fired another 20 workers for participating in protests against its $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, according to an activist group representing the workers. From a report: In total, the company has now fired around 50 employees over sit-in protests held in Google offices last week that were part of yearslong discontent among a group of Google and Amazon workers over claims that Israel is using the companies' services to harm Palestinians. Google has denied those claims, saying Project Nimbus, the cloud-computing contract, doesn't involve "highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services," and that Israeli government ministries that use its commercial cloud must agree to its terms of services and other policies. No Tech For Apartheid, the group representing the workers, claimed in a statement that Google is attempting to "quash dissent, silence its workers, and reassert its power over them." "That's because Google values its profit, and its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military, more than people. And it certainly values it over its own workers," it said. The group said it will continue organizing until Google cancels Project Nimbus. Further reading: Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace'.