Google vice president of security Royal Hansen and general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that the company’s Threat Analysis Group had been tracking Glupteba for months before taking technical and legal actions against the group. Google filed a lawsuit against the blockchain-enabled botnet – litigation they called the first of its kind – hoping to “create legal liability for the botnet operators, and help deter future activity....

There are a few notable updates that developers will be happy about, along with a new feature that’s set to launch later this year that will let Google TV users cast directly from their Android phone or tablet to a TV. In order to capitalize on the momentum that the platforms are seeing — including 110 monthly active devices, 10,000 apps, and 300 hardware partners — Google has three new features for developers to integrate into their apps....

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Google Europe ran through a list of measures it’s taking to automatically safeguard accounts, as well as measures users themselves can take to increase their privacy and security through freely available account features. First, the company made it clear that it is actively attempting to “look out for and disrupt disinfo campaigns, hacking, and financially motivated abuse” surrounding the conflict. This effort includes collaborations with other companies and “relevant government bodies” to address rising threats....

It’s not as easy as it sounds, though. Google is in a weird position of facing an uphill battle to attract users to its own hardware, not software. As competitors like Apple and Samsung are introducing new ways to interact with their respective smartphones, Google is left to play third fiddle, needing to produce a design that’s both distinguishable and practical. Are the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro the phones that can push Google’s smartphone ambitions into the mainstream?...

South Korea recently approved legislation to require app marketplaces to allow developers to use alternatives in-app billing systems. The laws also ban app store marketplaces from unreasonably delaying the approval of apps or deleting them from the marketplace. As part of Google’s acceptance of this mandate, Android developers will now be able to add an alternative in-app billing system that will sit alongside Google Play’s billing system, Google said in a blog post....

In an email and notice first spotted by 9to5Google, Google is telling its legacy free users to pony up if they want to continue receiving the same service they have become accustomed to. “If you have the G Suite legacy free edition, you need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to keep your services. The G Suite legacy free edition will no longer be available starting July 1, 2022,” Google said on a support page....

Smart canvas now also offers a pageless format for Docs, a new email draft template for Docs and a Google Maps smart chip so that users can preview a Maps link directly in Docs. Google will also soon launch intelligent suggestions in Sheets to help users correct formulas. Google offered a few stats to illustrate the traction smart canvas has had with customers. Usage now exceeds the usage of comments in Docs, the company said – more than six million checklists and six million smart chips are added to documents each week via smart canvas....

Guardian Protection’s Claim Enjoy peace of mind. We’ll work with you to make it quick, easy and affordable. Is it true? If your peace of mind is improved, not distressed, by committing to a three- to five-year contract, then Guardian Protection can make good on all its promises. The company works with customers on an individual level to customize every device kit. But unlike most a la carte home security systems, Guardian Protection requires professional installation and monitoring....

In a matter of weeks, bug bounty hunters tested the US Department of Defenses’s computer systems and found a torrent of security flaws, as reported by RT. In total, over 1,400 hackers were awarded upwards of $15,000 for the most destructive bugs. Finding so many vulnerabilities has proved to be a success, but has also highlighted just how weak the government’s systems appear to be. Considering that the hackers were only permitted access to specific systems in a controlled manner – which did not include any important or critical systems – you have to wonder what other vulnerabilities are lurking in the US government networks....

According to analysis by Proofpoint, there’s been a rise in cyberattackers attempting to deliver malware using OneNote documents, a digital notebook signified by .one extensions that is part of the Microsoft 365 office applications suite. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out Cybersecurity researchers note that it’s unusual for OneNote documents to be abused in this way and there’s one simple reason why attackers are experimenting with them – because they can more easily bypass threat detection than other attachments....

While the company skipped some of its usual categories like mice and keyboards, it brought novel features to others and created a few completely new product lines. Also: HTC’s VIVE XR Elite aims to be the new all-in-one, premium headset for everyone Let’s take a look at what the Sneki Snek has in store for the coming year. Razer Edge Razer’s already-revealed Edge handheld was once again the star of the lineup, with the company providing a few more details on the Wi-Fi-only and 5G-equipped versions....

The controversy concerned a tax reporting requirement within the bill that sought to expand the definition of a broker for Internal Revenue Service purposes. The reporting requirement would see all brokers report transactions under the current tax code. Crypto industry proponents, however, were concerned that the definition would be too broad, capturing entities like miners and other parties that don’t actually facilitate transactions. Another provision in the bill included amending tax code section 6050I....

So, even if you can’t respond to the email immediately, you can be easily reminded to do so, without having to snooze a message or add an event to a calendar. With the built-in Remind Me feature, you select the email for the reminder, set the reminder, and forget about it. At the time you set for the reminder, the email will automatically appear at the top of your inbox, with the tag ‘REMIND ME’ in the preview....

King used his visibility and influence to advocate for nonviolent solutions to poverty, racism, and militarism. The Atlanta-based King Center calls these issues “the triple evils” and argues that these problems are interrelated. Each of the three is a broad category encompassing many related issues. Examples of poverty include unemployment, homelessness, and illiteracy. Racism includes prejudices, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and stereotypes. And militarism includes terrorism, human trafficking, and war. If you work in tech, consider these suggestions on how your efforts, your company, and your employees can honor King’s legacy by working to address the triple evils....

There’s another important day in July that you may not know about. On July 26, 1990, former President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act. The law aims to ensure people with disabilities have equitable opportunities, rights, and access. Ever since, July 26 has been celebrated as National Disability Independence Day. The law is often called the ADA for short. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in education, employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, and access to government programs and services....

In the coming weeks, Google said it plans to deploy MUM (Multitask Unified Model), its latest AI model, to improve Search results for users in crisis. First, Google says MUM can better understand the intent behind people’s questions. Additionally, MUM in the coming months will improve Google Search’s spam protections, potentially bringing down the portion of unhelpful or dangerous results. Google will be able to roll out these improvements globally, given that MUM can transfer knowledge across the 75 languages it’s trained on....

The warrant [PDF] reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2018 commenced the investigation after it recruited a confidential human source to provide access to Anom, an encrypted communications product used by transnational criminal organisations (TCOs). The confidential human source also distributed Anom devices to their already existing network of distributors of encrypted communications devices, which all had direct links to TCOs. According to the warrant, the FBI said it recruited the source shortly after arresting Vincent Ramos, the CEO of Phantom Secure, who had sold the company’s encrypted devices exclusively to members of criminal organisations....

You can always manually add that information, but what if this is a document you use over and over, and you would rather not have to type out those bits every time you reuse the file? That’s where document fields come in handy. A field is a dynamic piece of information added to a file that is automatically updated as needed. For instance, if you add a date field, every time you reuse that document, the field will update to the current date....

What is that? Reading mode reformats content such that all of the distractions and ill-formed formatting are either stripped away or tweaked so that the text is presented on the device in a much more readable format. Also: How to find out which apps are draining your Android battery As I mentioned, Android doesn’t have this feature built-in (yet) but there’s an official Google app on the Play Store, named Reading mode, which adds the functionality to Android devices....

If you’ve ever tried to do this in the past, you’re probably aware that it wasn’t a possibility through Adobe Acrobat unless you paid for a subscription. Back then, an internet search on the subject yielded several hundreds of websites advertising either the feature or an application you’d have to download and figure out how to use in order to get a seemingly simple task completed. Adobe Acrobat has finally simplified the process to combine PDFs into one, accompanied by a host of other options to edit, convert to PDFs and other file formats, sign, compress and split PDFs, all right on their website....