"Leuvense onderzoeker over ‘kritiek’ lek in beveiliging van Bluetooth: 'Het grootste dat we ooit ontdekten'" (Het Belang van Limburg)
https://www.hbvl.be/binnenland/leuvense-onderzoeker-over-kritiek-lek-in-beveiliging-van-bluetooth-het-grootste-dat-we-ooit-ontdekten/123882505.html (paywall)
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Update your headphones: Fast Pair vulnerability could let attackers track your location" (Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/whisperpair-fast-pair-vulnerability-3632817/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Google Fast Pair devices need an immediate update for hacking risk" (Android Police)
https://www.androidpolice.com/fast-pair-devices-face-hackingrisk/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Many Google Fast Pair devices need an update to patch exploits that allowed attackers to track you" (9to5google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/15/google-fast-pair-devices-exploit-whisperpair/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Critical WhisperPair flaw lets hackers track, eavesdrop via Bluetooth audio devices" (Bleeping Computer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-whisperpair-flaw-lets-hackers-track-eavesdrop-via-bluetooth-audio-devices/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Bluetooth-accessoires kapen met Google Fast Pair": https://eng.kuleuven.be/nieuws-en-agenda/nieuws/bluetooth-accessoires-kapen-met-google-fast-pair
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair": https://eng.kuleuven.be/en/news-calendar/news-items/hijacking-bluetooth-accessories-using-google-fast-pair
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

Yesterday on Belgian Radio Joe FM, Prof. Preneel explained how COSIC can hijack Bluetooth devices via Google’s Fast Pair! 🎧
Watch the full demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j45ShJINtc
#COSIC #KULeuven #WhisperPair #Google #FastPair #Bluetooth

"Leuvense onderzoekers vinden lek in Bluetooth pairingdienst Google" (Data News)
https://datanews.knack.be/nieuws/security/kwetsbaarheden/leuvense-onderzoekers-vinden-lek-in-bluetooth-pairingdienst-google/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

"Ernstig beveiligingslek in Bluetooth-oortjes: ongemerkt meeluisteren én volgen mogelijk" (HLN)
https://www.hln.be/multimedia/ernstig-beveiligingslek-in-bluetooth-oortjes-ongemerkt-meeluisteren-en-volgen-mogelijk~a7dd5bde/?slug_rd=1
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair #bluetooth

Are your headphones and speakers vulnerable to hacking? If your audio accessories use Google's Fast Pair protocol, you may need a patch to avoid hackers eavesdropping on your calls and surroundings, hijacking your devices and playing their own audio through them, or even stalking you. Here's a @WIRED story that explains more.

https://flip.it/.Khv35

#Technology #Tech #InfoSecurity #Data #InfoSec #Gadgets #Devices #Google

Tonight at 19h on Belgian TV (#VTM NIEUWS), COSIC’s research shows how attackers can silently take over #Bluetooth earbuds - listening in or tracking users.
Watch a teaser from the 13h news (from 28:00): https://www.vtmgo.be/vtmgo/afspelen/39abc203-f1f5-418c-a7f4-df55f8b50162
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair

"Snelle bluetoothverbinding van Google maakt je kwetsbaar voor afluisterpraktijken" (TechPulse)
https://techpulse.be/nieuws/493761/snelle-bluetoothverbinding-van-google-maakt-je-kwetsbaar-voor-afluisterpraktijken/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair

"Des chercheurs louvanistes découvrent un bug dans le service d’appairage Bluetooth de Google" (Data News)
https://datanews.levif.be/actualite/securite/failles/des-chercheurs-louvanistes-decouvrent-un-bug-dans-le-service-dappairage-bluetooth-de-google/
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair

"Leuvense onderzoeker over ‘kritiek’ lek in beveiliging van Bluetooth: “Het grootste dat we ooit ontdekten" (Nieuwsblad)
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/binnenland/leuvense-onderzoeker-over-kritiek-lek-in-beveiliging-van-bluetooth-het-grootste-dat-we-ooit-ontdekten/123793111.html
#cosic #kuleuven #WhisperPair #google #fastpair

"Beveiligingslek in Bluetooth-oortjes laat meeluisteren en volgen toe"
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/beveiligingslek-in-bluetooth-oortjes-laat-meeluisteren-en-volgen-toe~b1ce4fdb/
#cosic #kuleuven #whisperpair #google

"Vos écouteurs Bluetooth peuvent vous espionner : la faille Google révélée par la KU Leuven" (Le Soir)
https://lesoir.be/722440/article/2026-01-15/vos-ecouteurs-bluetooth-peuvent-vous-espionner-la-faille-google-revelee-par-la
#cosic #kuleuven #whisperpair #google

🎧COSIC reveals hundreds of millions of earbuds & speakers need a patch to prevent wireless hacking & tracking. Flaws in 17 models using #Google’s #FastPair let attackers hijack devices, eavesdrop, and track users.
Watch our demo: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-j45ShJINtc

"Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking" (WIRED)
https://wired.com/story/google-fast-pair-bluetooth-audio-accessories-vulnerability-patches/

Whisper Pair website: https://whisperpair.eu

#google #whisperpair #cosic #kuleuven

Google's shopping AI sparks surveillance pricing debate: Google faces accusations about personalized upselling in Universal Commerce Protocol after January 11 announcement, while company denies claims about price manipulation. https://ppc.land/googles-shopping-ai-sparks-surveillance-pricing-debate/ #Google #ShoppingAI #Surveillance #PriceManipulation #Ecommerce

MakeUseOf: I turned off these Google settings to improve privacy. “I use Google for almost everything. Search, email, maps, videos, documents, even my calendar. The biggest advantage here is convenience. I don’t have to create dozens of accounts and manage them separately. But it also means I’m giving way too much data to a single company. That’s not exactly a smart thing to do if you […]

Apple’s New Siri Will Be Google’s Gemini

In news you wouldn’t need AI to hallucinate, Apple and Google  in a joint statement to CNBC announced that Apple will be using Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s long anticipated and delayed New Siri in a multi-year deal.

You can call it a surrender. It is. You can call it an admission of failure. It is. Even if Apple rarely admits mistakes.

Stating that the new models will continue to run on Apple’s private cloud compute in a joint statement, (published on Google’s news blog and to my knowledge not in any Apple press release), the statement said,

Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.

After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple’s industry-leading privacy standards.

Given the delay in releasing the promised and once heralded update to Siri, this isn’t really news and  has been thought to be the path Apple would adopt for quite some time. Speculation is that users might see this as early as this spring, but I’m still thinking it won’t roll out until WWDC 2026 this summer.

For what it’s worth, the statement to business network CNBC tells everyone who the audience is for this news that isn’t news and I’m guessing the complete retrenchment from Apple’s initial endeavors to try and create a AI powered Siri.

Saying “Apple determined…” is quite some shade from Google, even in a joint statement.

For future curiosity purposes it will be interesting to see how Apple’s New Siri/Gemini will respond if someone prompts it to generate a summary of this news.

You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.

#ai #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #chatgpt #Gemini #google #Siri #technology

If you think your "harmless" cloud photos are private, you're missing the bigger picture.

Modern AI (like Google's Vision API) doesn't just see a picture, it extracts your mood, your brands, your exact location, and even your social status in milliseconds.

Your photo library isn't just a set of memories, it's the most detailed dossier ever created on you.

This is why encryption isn't a paranoia feature anymore - it's a survival tool for the digital age.

#Privacy #DataPrivacy #BigTech #Google #Infosec #CyberSecurity #degoogle #Ente #Fediverse

#gtfa from google !

( #get #the #fuck #out #of #google )

Has anyone recently migrated from Gmail to Tuta?

I’m curious if there is a simple way to move/copy all my emails over.

#lazyweb #tuta #privacy #google #gmail #migration #web

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"More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists."

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/FpM24B

#Google #AI #Gmail #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

#Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/google-ai-overviews-risk-harm-misleading-health-information

Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and a few iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI #Antigravity #Google #vibecoding

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My vibecoded app that summarizes my mastodon and bluesky timelines

Beloved family-owned #Cincinnati BBQ restaurant and food truck vender that was featured in a #Google #Gemini Super Bowl commercial last year is forced to sell food trucks amid financial challenges, now directing customers to order from her website vs 3rd party online ordering, their chicken thighs have skyrocketed from $30 per case in 2020 to $130 in May 2025

"In 2024, we did about 30% of the revenue that we had in years past," said Kristen Bailey, co-owner of Sweets and Meats BBQ.

She's now asking customers to call, or, if ordering online, order directly from her website, vs 3rd party online ordering due to the fees they collect #Ohio #TrumpsEconomy

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/finding-solutions/family-owned-cincinnati-restaurant-forced-to-sell-food-truck-amid-financial-challenges

Being generous, I'd say that about half of #Google #Gemini responses have some error or misunderstanding in them that I can recognize. Something like 25% are completely wrong or totally miss the point. I have no idea how many responses there are that are actually wrong in some respect but I don't have the background knowledge to recognize any errors. USELESS.

@jti42 @pkal @ghul cuz I think that in the legal battle game #FLOSS vs. #Corporations that #OpenSource would be on the loosing end.

• The main success factor for #Linux is not only it's #licensing but also that it coopted #GAFAMs into being contributors that pay key #developers.

And since they all have stakes with partially diverging interests, this is a useful way to take their resources (personnel hours and money) for something good (instead of them wasting it on #Enshittification, #Cyberfascism and #Militarization)…

• IOW: Would you rather want some developer from #nvidia work on #Linux or #Palantir's #Govware? Cuz shure as hell said developer ain't gonna stop developing for 6 figures per year either way.

Kinda like @landley pointed out that #Android - unlike #iOS - is gonna be "salvageable" (and due to #Google going *full 'asshole mode' that #fork is necessary sooner than anticipated)…

• This is opportunistic af but that is kinda necessary until the world decides to ban capitalism, redistributes wealth and sentence billionaires to lifetime community service without parole.

#sarcasm #politricks

@ghul @jti42 @pkal @landley precisely!

Besides: All those big corpos contributing don't do so out of kindness either, but because none of them want to cough up way more money for a #CCSS alternative like Wind River #VxWorks, #Oracle #Solaris or god forbid #IBM #zArchitecture #Mainframes!

• #Android will need to have a #Community #Fork unless #Google instantly and retroactively revers their "#Developer #Verification" bs even for non-#GooglePlay #Apps!

@darryl_ramm
Like the 'old' motto of #google said: "don't be evil"
@molly0xfff

Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube

It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.

#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.

@Tutanota

Some other simple things

8. Disable google advertising ID in phone settings

9. Install F-Droid where you can discover many FLOSS apps deliberately not published on google play

10. Switch from a fingerprint to a pin (added bonus that police in several countries can legally force your thumb onto your phone but cant legally force you to give up a pin)

11. Switch from google notification servers to something else like microg and/or set notifications to not display message content or at least not display message content when the phone is locked (Im pretty sure all that can be done from notification settings)

12. Switch from googles keyboard app to an open source alternative from f-droid (google has been fined millions before for illegally and secretly tracking geolocation it wouldnt surprise me if they do the same with keystrokes, and also mic and camera)

13. There's a bunch of other phone-home features spread across the settings but mostly under privacy category and accessibility category that you might want to turn off if you have no use for

#Google #Android #Privacy #PSA #FLOSS #FDroid #Advertising #Microg

Cybercriminals collected the credentials in #phishing campaigns targeting American citizens through fraudulent ads on Google and Bing search services that led to fake banking portals.

NOTE it says through ads served by #Google and #Bing.

The most important point in the article is, "... Online banking users are recommended to bookmark official banking portals instead of searching on Google or Bing or to use ad blockers that hide promoted results entirely".

Ad blockers are for security, regardless of what Google and others try to tell you. They are essential protection.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-seizes-domain-storing-bank-credentials-stolen-from-us-victims/

#Cybersecurity #Phishing #Scam

And I suppose the diminutive men in charge won't do anything about it until their daughters get stripped down as well.

Wired, from yesterday: Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatbots-can-strip-women-in-photos-down-to-bikinis/ @WIRED #OpenAI #Google

@plantarum

I mean air Canada had to uphold the deal their AI chat bot did on their behalf, so there is precedent for AI content to be considered official content from a corp.

#libel #AI #Google