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Internet giant Google on Tuesday called out a series of surveillance software companies that it said were enabling the use of dangerous hacking tools, and urged the United States and its allies to do more to rein in the spyware industry. The industry has faced increasing scrutiny since the Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus spyware was found on the phones of various people globally, including human rights defenders. In a report on Tuesday, Google researchers said that while NSO is better known, there are dozens of smaller firms helping the proliferation of spy technology for malicious uses...

Zacks.com users have recently been watching Alphabet (GOOGL) quite a bit. Thus, it is worth knowing the facts that could determine the stock's prospects...

Don't let the market's reaction to the fourth-quarter results shape your view of this business...

It’s a new week, but if investors are still feeling whiplash from the last one, it’s understandable. The market also chose to focus on an uptick in jobless claims and positive inflation data, rather than the white-hot jobs report (one that so handily beat expectations it could have been seen as evidence growth and inflation are too high for any near-term rate cut)...

Meta says that it is working on technology that can detect generative AI-manipulated images from other platforms ahead of the 2024 elections...

Meta Platforms will begin detecting and labeling images generated by other companies' artificial intelligence services in the coming months, using a set of invisible markers built into the files, its top policy executive said on Tuesday. Meta will apply the labels to any content carrying the markers that is posted to its Facebook, Instagram and Threads services, in an effort to signal to users that the images - which in many cases resemble real photos - are actually digital creations, the company's president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, wrote in a blog post. Once the new system is up and running, Meta will do the same for images created on services run by OpenAI, Microsoft , Adobe, Midjourney, Shutterstock and Alphabet's Google, Clegg said...

Countries led by Britain, France and the United States and tech firms including Google, Microsoft and Meta on Tuesday signed a joint statement recognising the need for more action to tackle malicious use of cyber spying tools. The declaration was signed by 35 nations at a conference hosted by both Britain and France to tackle the growing availability and use of spyware used to listen to phone calls, steal photos and remotely operate cameras and microphones. The agreement said the rapidly growing spyware market raises concerns over its impact on national security and human rights, as well as expands the “potential pool of state and non state actors with access” to powerful spying tools...

(Reuters) -Internet giant Google on Tuesday called out a series of surveillance software companies that it said were enabling the use of dangerous hacking tools, and urged the United States and its allies to do more to rein in the spyware industry. The industry has faced increasing scrutiny since the Israeli firm NSO's Pegasus spyware was found on the phones of various people globally, including human rights defenders. In a report on Tuesday, Google researchers said that while NSO is better known, there are dozens of smaller firms helping the proliferation of spy technology for malicious uses...

Artificial intelligence is set to make Alphabet's top products and services even better...