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Google's parent company, cited in the article as an example of ongoing growth.
Why it's here
Placed in Trial: 7 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 3 in the last 30 days. Confidence 54%.
Evidence (7)
- 9Hacker News·10/7/2026securityCounterfeit TLS certificates issued for Google and major services
Reporters say attackers obtained counterfeit TLS certificates that appear valid for Google and other major services. Such certificates could be used to impersonate trusted sites or intercept traffic if they are accepted by a browser or intermediary trust path.
- 6Hacker News·10/2/2026regulationICC Judge Describes Effects of U.S. Sanctions
An International Criminal Court judge says U.S. sanctions have disrupted her banking, insurance, and access to technology services, including canceled credit cards and limited cloud and email access. She says the measures were imposed over an earlier ICC decision related to the Afghanistan investigation and highlight the pressure sanctions can place on international judges and institutions.
- 2Hacker News·9/25/2026researchRobert O'Callahan Says Goodbye to Google
This post is a personal farewell and archive update from Robert O'Callahan, who appears to be leaving Google. The page is primarily a blog index and does not describe a major product launch or technical announcement, but it reflects a notable career transition from a long-time software engineer and browser/debugging tools author.
- 7Ars Technica AI·9/10/2026researchSpirit bankruptcy auction sparks concern over data sale to Google
Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy auction reportedly included a large operational dataset that Google won, prompting concern from Springshot founder Doug Kreuzkamp. He says the data may contain Springshot intellectual property and operational information that should not have been sold by Spirit without notice.
- 6Hacker News·9/5/2026regulationChrome again exempts Google from site data controls
The article argues that Google Chrome once again excludes Google-owned services from user site-data settings, limiting how those controls apply in practice. It highlights ongoing concerns about consistency and user choice in Chrome’s privacy-related behavior.
- 7Ars Technica AI·9/3/2026product_launchOpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google Hit by Overlapping AI Outages
Cloud-hosted AI services from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google experienced overlapping outages and elevated error rates over several hours on Thursday morning. Anthropic and OpenAI both reported the issues, deployed fixes or mitigations, and later marked the incidents as resolved.
- 4Hacker News·9/1/2026researchAnalysis finds Ed Zitron's AI skepticism has been repeatedly wrong
A Hacker News post reviews several of Ed Zitron's AI-skeptic predictions and argues that many have not held up against company performance data. In particular, claims that Meta, Google, and Microsoft were "dying" or lacked growth appear inconsistent with their recent revenue and profit growth.