Why “Google” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> How else can you stay safe against a threat that exfiltrates your entire digital life in like 10 seconds? I moved part of my wealth to a private bank, on an account requiring…
by TacticalCoder · Oct 31, 2026
It's not great. But I prefer it over the risk of downloading an APK from signal's website that I don't know how to properly verify the integrity of (there's a key listed on the…
by markasoftware · Oct 31, 2026
It doesn't necessarily go to court. In the past, there was a project that was a light fork of Signal, LibreSignal, that was Signal but without the google libraries. They have as…
by jraph · Oct 31, 2026
Lol I more mean that at the time they were likely just looking for training data to make a better model, and only recently did people figure out it could “steal people’s style”.…
by 0x20cowboy · Oct 31, 2026
> They should tax ads then That's what they're trying to do. The problem is that the person paying for the ads is not in France (and has no presence in the EU at all), and the p…
by spwa4 · Oct 31, 2026
What actually is Scribd? They were always just that thing that showed up in Google searches cause they scraped presentations and stuff that was unknowingly public. But I didn’t…
by AbstractH24 · Oct 31, 2026
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC, and is one of the world's most valuable brands. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., has been described as a Big Tech company. Read more on Wikipedia