Our Results about you tool can now help you find and request the removal of Search results containing your government-issued IDs, like a passport, driver’s license or social security number.
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, serve them advertisements, Reuters reports.
Yout is an online utility that lets users download copies of videos from various sources, including YouTube. Founder John Nader insists that the service Yout offers doesn’t break the law — but a Brazilian criminal court disagrees.
In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of “vibe coding” software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google’s Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition.
Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser.