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Facebook and Google’s new plan? Own the internet – Wired.co.uk
Posted: October 11, 2021 at 10:03 am
The cloud is not an abstraction. Your photos, uploaded to Google's cloud, do not float in the ether. Your iCloud backups do not break bread with the gods. The metaverse that Facebook is so keen on building will not exist in the heavens.
The name cloud is a linguistic trick a way of hiding who controls the underlying technology of the internet and the huge power they wield. Stop to think about it for a moment and the whole notion is bizarre. The cloud is, in fact, a network of cables and servers that cover the world: once the preserve of obscure telecoms firms, it is now, increasingly, owned and controlled by Big Tech with Google and Facebook claiming a lions share.
Building data centre capacity is something of a full-time job for Big Tech. Here, in vast facilities spread across the world, your most private photos and messages sit on a hard drive on an anonymous computer on an anonymous rack, stacked alongside thousands of others in an out-of-town data centre, sited somewhere where energy and land are cheap.
The cloud is a hulking physical network. It forms a part of the internets backbone, which itself is overwhelmingly made up of a network of cables intersecting the worlds oceans. It is easy to imagine these as larger or grander than they are in reality they are generally the width of a hosepipe, buried for a short distance from shore for security, but beyond that point allowed to sit freely on the sea bed.
A conversation with Bruce Neilson-Watts, who spent 16 years as a navigator, engineer and then a captain of boats working to lay and repair the cables, sheds a little more light on what they look like and how they work. The actual part of the cable which carries information across the continent is just the tiniest core of the hosepipe-width cable, with even that tiny thickness able to carry up to 100GBps or even 400GBps on newer cables in the smallest fractions of a second.
Much of the rest of the width is made up of petroleum jelly yes, the same stuff that comes in a Vaseline jar intended to protect the cables from water damage and corrosion, meaning even the physical structure of the internet is, in fact, lubed up. Make of that what you will.
The ownership of the data centres and often as a result, our data that power the internet is a matter of almost constant public debate. Its the issue that drives conversations about tech monopolies and the overbearing power of internet platforms. But the same cannot be said of those transatlantic cables, almost 1.5 million kilometres of which now traverse almost every part of the globe.
These operators tend to stay out of sight. In reality, many of the worlds international cables are often owned by consortia of companies, who are often rivals in other contexts. Some major internet cables list as many as 50 owners, while only around a quarter appear to be operated by one company.
These companies charge others for the amount of data they transmit through the cables they own, but also barter access to cables owned by others in exchange for free access to theirs a quiet share-and-share-alike system behind huge telecoms companies, all behind the scenes.
The worlds biggest owner of cables is a household name, at least to Americans its AT&T, which has a stake in around 230,000 kilometres of international internet cabling, or around one sixth of the total. But looking at others in the top ten reveals why both Big Tech and Western governments are starting to pay the apparently dull issue of cable ownership more attention: in second place is China Telecom, while Chunghwa Telecom (based in Taiwan) is third and China Unicorn is sixth.
In the tenth and eleventh spots, however, are some very familiar names: Facebook and Google. Big Tech is getting into big cables and doing so in a big way. Over the past few years, 80 percent of investment in new cables has flowed from the two US tech giants. As of today, Facebook owns or co-owns 99,399 kilometres of cables, Google 95,876 kilometres. And more investments are on their way: in August, Facebook and Google announced their plans for building a 12,000 kilometre undersea cable, Apricot, which will link Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia when completed in 2024. For Google, that came hot on the heels of a previous announcement about the Echo subsea cable, which will connect California, Singapore, Guam and Indonesia. For its part, Facebook has thrown its weight behind the coalition of telcos building what might turn out to be the longest subsea cable ever: 2Africa, a 45,000 kilometre-long cord planned to encompass the whole African continent and connect 33 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle-East by 2024. In May 2020 Bloomberg reported that the project will cost under $1 billion but that was before Facebook announced several expansions to the initial design.
The stated motivations for these efforts vary. Facebook especially frames part of its effort as being about improving internet access across the world while admitting some advantage to itself through user growth if this succeeds. Google mostly highlights how greater connectivity will boost local economic prosperity.
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Google Fiber to expand into another Salt Lake County community – ABC 4
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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (ABC4) Yet another Salt Lake County community will have access to Google Fiber.
Since 2015, Google Fiber has been expanding across the Wasatch Front. It started in Provo, expanded into Salt Lake City, and has since stretched into multiple other cities.
On Friday, South Jordan announced it has passed a resolution to allow Google Fiber to access the Citys public right-of-way to install network facilities.
Were excited to have another internet provider here in South Jordan, says Mayor Dawn Ramsey. Our residents and businesses have asked for more choices, and our City Council is happy to do its part to make that happen.
In 2022, Google Fiber Utah will begin installing fiber along roads throughout the city.
Were continuing to grow our network across the Wasatch Front, says Jacob Brace, Google Fiber Government and Community Affairs Manager. We look forward to connecting South Jordan residents to fast, reliable internet and expect to start offering service in some areas in early 2022.
Google Fiber will begin notifying residents and businesses before work begins in their area, and when broadband internet service will being.
Google Fiber will work to reduce the disruption and impact to our residents by using smaller trenches, said South Jordan City Public Information Officer Rachael Van Cleave.
In July, Google Fiber announced it was on track to finish its initial build in Salt Lake City and was gearing up to launch building efforts in North Salt Lake and Woods Cross. Google Fiber is also present in or in the process of building a presence in South Salt Lake, Taylorsville, Millcreek, and Holladay.
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Google "officially releases" Android 12 but the update for Pixels is only arriving "in the next few weeks" – GSMArena.com news -…
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Google has been running late with the release of Android 12, at least if we compare this year's timeline to the one from 2020 when it outed Android 11 on the first working Monday of September. Here we are today on the first working Monday of October, and Google is "officially releasing" Android 12, and pushing its source to the Android Open Source Project.
And yet - if you're wondering about actual updates to Pixel phones, those are apparently only going to arrive "in the next few weeks". So a release that isn't a release - we thought we'd seen it all before, but this is a new flavor of weird.
Google says phones from Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi will get Android 12 "later this year", which is no surprise as it always takes third party device makers a few weeks or months to adapt a new Android version to their particular vision(s).
All this said, if you're interested in learning what's eventually coming in Android 12, our review of the new OS is now freshly published, so why not take a look?
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Tech whistleblowers are having a moment, and one woman who’s been there has found a new way to help – CNBC
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Former Google, Facebook and Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma launched a free resource guide and a new California law in the same week.
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Whistleblowers are getting louder in Silicon Valley. Most notable is ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who testified in front of Congress this week after revealing documents that showed the company is aware of the harm its products cause.
Also this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Silenced No More Act, which prohibits employers from using nondisclosure agreement to muzzle complaints about discrimination.
The timing was fortuitous for Ifeoma Ozoma, a former Pinterest employee, who's recently been spending much of her energy trying to create a safe space for tech whistleblowers. In 2020, Ozoma and another Black ex-Pinterest employee went public with claims of discrimination and retaliation during their time at the social media company.
On Wednesday, Ozoma launched a free online resource guide for tech workers who are considering making workplace complaints. It's called "The Tech Worker Handbook," and Ozoma says it's meant to help those who need basic information with how to share their stories of misconduct and how to prepare for what comes next.
"It's really depressing stuff when you get into it," Ozoma, 29, said in an interview. "When you look at all the expenses you need to be planning for when you decide you're going to potentially leave a company, it is such a huge decision to make for yourself and your family. I think we're doing individuals a disservice if we're not providing any kind of support or resources. It's basically saying 'throw yourself into the lion's den and good luck.'"
Ozoma's guide reached over 30,000 website views its first day and received praise from many across the industry.Ozoma owns the domain and is overseeing the site. She's tapped dozens of tech workers and organizations to help contribute to the guide.
She told CNBC that since launching the guide, she's received hundreds of inquiries from workers, asking how to get involved and whether they should speak out about their company. Ellen Pao, a tech investor and former Reddit CEO, who sued venture firm Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination in 2012, praised Ozoma's work.
"I think it's incredibly important to set people's expectations," Pao said. "Your company is going to come after you like we saw with the PR smear against Frances," she said, referring to Facebook's efforts to discredit Haugen during and after her testimony.
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, testifies during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing titled Children's Online Safety-Facebook Whistleblower, in Russell Building on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
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Ozoma said her goal isn't to convince people to blow the whistle but to show them their options. The guide offers pages of resources for advice on media, legal actions and security precautions.
An assessment gives workers several questions to consider before speaking out. Ozoma warns about the potential loss of income and health care that could come as a result of being fired or leaving a position. She said she had to pay $900 a month for health insurance when she left Pinterest.
Ozoma said employees approach her each week for advice, often by text, but having worked in the tech industry, she knows software is a necessary part of the equation.
"I am happy to respond to people's DMs for the rest of my life, but that is really not a scalable way for tech workers to find out what they need in order to protect themselves," she said.
Erika Cheung is another one of the better-known whistleblowers in Silicon Valley. She's among the former Theranos employees who came forward, alleging the blood-testing company was producing faulty results.
Ozoma and Cheung spoke months ago about the various costs to workers who speak out about their workplace conditions and the need for more resources. Ozoma included Cheung's voice in the guide.
"You will face retaliation and lots of difficulties navigating the legal system, but the thing that kept me going was knowing that the company was wrong and causing harm to people by hiding a certain defect in their product," Cheung said in the handbook. "That anchor is what I turned to when I was facing especially difficult circumstances."
Surrounded by local, state and national officials, California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach, site of the the recent offshore oil spill, on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. waters.
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Both the Silenced No More Act and her handbook came after more than a year of lobbying and organizing, Ozoma said. Ozoma co-sponsored the bill and helped gather support from thousands of people in the tech industry.
She said she used skills acquired while working in various public policy roles for Google, Facebook and Pinterest.
"I learned how to work with policymakers, I learned how to lobby and engage with press, which have been huge parts of this," she said. "It's been an interesting way to apply these learnings but now for workers and not just my employers."
Ozoma said she worked with former colleagues from each of her past employers. At times, that meant educating people who didn't have the same experience.
"Most folks in the tech industry have no idea how legislations work," Ozoma said. "It's been a painstaking process conducting meetings with offices of senators over Zoom and asking supporters to sit in on hour-long calls for the chance to say audibly they support the bill."
One person in Ozoma's corner is Ariella Steinhorn, founder and CEO of Lioness, an organization that helps workers tell their stories of misconduct allegations. Lioness published an essay in September by 21 former and current employees of Blue Origin who described a toxic work culture at the Jeff Bezos-led space company.
"We are in support and in awe of Ifeoma's much-needed work in this space," said Steinhorn.
Steinhorn added that she's seen an influx of workers from the tech industry inquiring about how to share their stories externally after failed internal attempts.
"There's definitely a need for something like this," she said of Ozoma's guidebook. "There's usually such a mismatch between the reality and the image of a company and it's too much for a person to bare themselves."
Ozoma is now living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she moved in 2020. While she won't get to experience the immediate results of her work on the California bill, she's pushing for company executives and shareholders to include language from the law in their NDAs.
David Barrett, CEO of expense management software start-up Expensify, told Protocol that he agreed to include a sentence in NDAs, saying "Nothing in this agreement prevents you from discussing or disclosing information about unlawful acts in the workplace, such as harassment or discrimination or any other conduct you have reason to believe is unlawful."
Ozoma said she hopes the California bill will spark similar action in other states, especially as distributed workforces become the norm.
Chelsey Glasson, who worked at Google for five years, told CNBC that Ozoma's effort on the bill inspired her to approach lawmakers in Washington state. She said they seem receptive to potentially matching the bill.
Glasson filed a lawsuit against Google in July 2020, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission opened an investigation into the complaint of pregnancy discrimination. Her trial is set for January.
Glasson's complaint led to a bill that passed the Washington state Senate, extending the statute of limitations for filing a pregnancy discrimination complaint from six months to a year.
She said that Ozoma's guide gives potential whistleblowers "a sense of community."
"I continue to hear from so many workers who are experiencing misconduct and terrified because they don't know what do," Glasson said.
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Google to give security keys to high risk users targeted by government hackers – TechCrunch
Posted: October 9, 2021 at 7:39 am
Google has said it will provide 10,000 high-risk users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
The warning, sent by Googles Threat Analysis Group (TAG), alerted more than 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, said to be made up of operatives of Russias GRU intelligence agency. Fancy Bear has been active for more than a decade but its widely known for hacking into the Democratic National Committee and its disinformation and election influencing campaign in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
These warnings indicate targeting not compromise. If we are warning you theres a very high chance we blocked, Googles TAG director Shane Huntley wrote in a Twitter threadon Thursday. The increased numbers this month come from a small number of widely targeted campaigns which were blocked.
Huntley added that these warnings are normal for individuals such as activists, journalists and government officials because thats who government-backed entities target. If you are an activist/journalist/government official or work in [national security], this warning honestly shouldnt be a surprise. At some point some [government] backed entity probably will try to send you something, he said.
Google said in a blog post that it will send out the security keys throughout 2021 to encourage users to enroll in its Advanced Protection Program (APP), which safeguards users with high visibility and sensitive information who are at risk of targeted online attacks. Security keys make it harder for phishing attacks to work as security keys can only be used to unlock accounts on legitimate websites.
Additionally, Google also announced new and extended partnerships with theInternational Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), UN Women and nonprofit Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) in order to shore up security for its most at-risk users.
Through its collaboration with the latter, Google said it has already provided Titan Security Keys to more than 180 eligible federal campaigns during the 2020 U.S. election season, adding that it is now working with the organization to provide further protection for state-level campaigns and political parties, committees and related organizations including workshops and training on how to protect against cyberattacks.
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Google Reader is still defunct, but now you can follow RSS feeds in Chrome on Android – The Verge
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Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a follow button for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the experimental Canary versions of Chrome on Android, but today the company has started enabling it on stable versions of the browser, according to Adrienne Porter Felt, a director of engineering on Chrome.
You can follow a site through the browsers three-dot menu to subscribe to its RSS feed and have it update in your Chrome app. Sites youre following will appear in a tab called following, which sits along Googles for you tab of recommended articles. The feature isnt out yet on iOS, so Im not able to check it out on my phone, but Felt shared some screenshots of what it looks like on Android so you can get an idea.
Its not clear how many people already have access to the new feature by default, but you can enable it yourself by entering chrome://flags in your address bar and turning it on under web feed, Felt writes.
The Chrome follow button is currently a mobile-only feature (iOS and desktop versions are coming), which will surely disappoint some Google Reader power users. Still, its at least nice to see Google keeping the RSS fire alive in some fashion. It makes the Chrome app even more crowded in terms of features, but if you were looking for a free, low-fuss way to keep up with some of your favorite sites, it seems like Google is once again willing to be that option.
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Google Search adds guitar tuner to its smorgasbord of built-in features – The Verge
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Google Search now has a handy built-in tuner, letting you use the microphone on your phone or computer to tune a guitar, Android Police reports. To access the feature, which was added this week, just search for Google tuner. The interface is similar to the dozens of guitar tuning apps that are already available. You play a string on the guitar, and Google will detect the note youre aiming for, and tell you to tune up or tune down as required.
Like other guitar tuning apps, the effectiveness of Googles tuner seems to depend a lot on the hardware youre using it with. My iPhone 12 Pro (via Safari) or Windows desktop with a Blue Snowball USB microphone (via Edge) had no trouble hearing and helping me tune an unamplified electric guitar, but a more affordable Android device Im currently reviewing (with Chrome) couldnt pick it up at all. Your mileage may vary, basically.
Like most other guitar tuner apps, I dont think Google Searchs feature is going to kill off the market for dedicated hardware tuners from the likes of Korg or Boss. Its too reliant on the quality of the mic in your device, and theres no way to easily plug in an electric guitar to avoid having to worry about background noise. But if you need to tune up in a pinch, Google Search now has you covered.
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Irelands status as tax haven for tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple is ending – The Verge
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Ireland said Thursday it would join an international agreement that sets taxes on profits for multinational corporations at a minimum rate of 15 percent. This is a major shift for the country that is the European headquarters for many large US pharmaceutical companies, as well as tech firms, including Google, Apple, and Facebook.
An increase from Irelands current 12.5 percent to 15 percent may not seem that large by itself. The so-called Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Inclusive Framework agreement, outlined in July, is actually a two-pillar plan aimed at helping end tax avoidance and making international tax rules fairer and more transparent. The OECD has estimated that a 15 percent tax rate would generate some $150 billion in global tax revenue annually and would help to stabilize the international tax system.
Ireland signed on to the deal ahead of a Friday meeting at the OECD among the 140 countries that have been negotiating its terms for several years. The plan calls for global companies to pay taxes in countries where their products or services are sold, even if they dont have a physical presence there, and would apply to multinational companies with revenues above 750 million (about $867 million). For companies with revenues below 750 million, the 12.5 percent rate would remain in effect in Ireland.
Over the past several decades, Ireland has served as a tax shelter for many large tech companies, thanks to its low corporate tax rate. Companies typically create Irish subsidiaries of their companies that license their intellectual property, on which the subsidiary pays royalties. Some 800 US companies have operations in Ireland, according to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, employing about 180,000 people. Apple opened its first plant in Ireland in 1980 and now employs some 6,000 people on its campus in the city of Cork. Facebook established its international headquarters in Dublin in 2008, and Google announced its European headquarters would be in Ireland in 2003.
Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe said in a statement Thursday that the agreement will address the tax challenges of digitalisation. Donohoe added that he believes companies will still choose to locate their headquarters in Ireland.
I am confident that Ireland will remain competitive into the future, and we will remain an attractive location and best in class when multi-nationals look to investment locations, Donohoe said. These multinational enterprises support our economy with high value jobs, and at the same time, Ireland provides a stable platform and a long proven track record of success for MNEs choosing to invest here.
If the OECD agreement moves forward, its provisions are expected to take effect in 2023.
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Google just announced its Pixel 6 event on October 19th – The Verge
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Google traditionally holds an October hardware event to reveal its new Pixel phones. This year, it already announced them heres the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6. But the company clearly hasnt said everything it wants to say publicly quite yet, because it just announced a virtual event for October 19th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
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On October 19, were officially introducing you to Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Prothe completely reimagined Google phones. Powered by Tensor, Googles first custom mobile chip, theyre fast, smart and secure. And they adapt to you. #Pixel6Launch
And though Google got out ahead of some of the leaks this year with its early Pixel announcements, theres still a lot we dont know about the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro. Were intrigued by what weve heard about the Pixel 6s Tensor processor, which undoubtedly deserves some sort of deep dive, and were still waiting to hear if Googles first folding-screen Pixel will see its rumored 2021 reveal.
Plus, of course, were still waiting for Google to formally announce when itll release Android 12. Weve already reviewed the update, of course, but Google was only willing to say that a push to Pixel devices will begin in the next few weeks.
Were having quite a run of big gadget events this fall, having just finished Apples September iPhone 13 and iPad event, Microsofts Surface Pro 8 and Laptop Studio event, and the Amazon fall hardware event last week.
Well have coverage of the Google event (according to the invite, we can expect a pre-recorded livestream) this October as well.
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Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers – Yahoo News
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The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought.
In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new "keyword warrants" and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim's name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
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Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial.
Trawling through Googles search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past, Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation, she added.
The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it's not publicly disclosed how many users' data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.
Google has defended its decision to respond to the warrants and said it protects users when doing so.
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As with all law enforcement requests, we have a rigorous process that is designed to protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement, a Google spokesperson said.
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