Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Judge Mehta dismissed publisher suits over AI Overviews. The harder question is whether search should still send us to the weird web.
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Google will keep ChromeOS updates through mid-2034 while moving many devices to Googlebook OS. That is not the ten years of ChromeOS advertised since 2023.
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A child's $20 YouTube promotion became a $118,000 bill, showing why payment systems, parents, and autonomous agents all need hard spending limits.
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Google search results increasingly hide destinations behind opaque goto links, continuing a long shift from map of the web to destination.
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Walmart is adding tap-to-pay in U.S. stores after CurrentC, Walmart Pay, and years of refusing NFC—Apple Pay and Google Pay included, without killing QR checkout.
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Google’s HEIR compiler aims to make encrypted AI inference a practical option—running recommendation, fraud, intrusion, and hotword models on ciphertext so the server never needs the plaintext.
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Unit 42’s three local malware attacks on Google Password Manager synced passkeys in Chrome on Windows with a TPM—showing stolen sessions are not the only risk when onboarding, UV flags, and a non-rotatable master secret leak.
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More than 1,100 current and former employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and others signed Pacing the Frontier—arguing for mechanisms to deliberately slow frontier AI when needed, rather than an outright pause that is unlikely to happen voluntarily.
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GrapheneOS explains locked-device protections and flags a 2027 Motorola partnership—arguing hardware designed for its security bar could make hardened phones reachable without buying a Pixel to escape Google’s software.
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Google’s AI results reduce publisher clicks while still needing crawled original work—arguing the old search partnership is flipping into a trap that may consume the open web Google depends on.
Developer Musings (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
