Google said it would change its policies because the search engine has been accused of spreading fakes.

Google will stop giving quick answers to stupid questions as it seeks to improve its search engine’s “suggested snippets” service.

That means users should see fewer answers to questions like “When did Snoopy kill Abraham Lincoln?” to which the service would someday cheerfully answer “1865” – the right date, but the very wrong killer.

In 2017, the company was accused of spreading “fake news” after a snippet of the query “Is Obama planning a coup?” Its voice assistant cheerfully told users: “Obama may indeed be planning a communist coup.”

In trying to address the root cause of such errors, Google is also missing new warnings about instances where a search term hits “blank data,” a question to which there simply may not be a good answer.

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The United States is investigating China’s Huawei over concerns about data interception from military bases.

The United States is investigating Chinese telecom maker Huawei over concerns that the company’s equipment could intercept and transmit private information to China from military bases.

U.S. authorities are concerned that Huawei could obtain sensitive data on military exercises and the state of readiness of bases and personnel using equipment on U.S. cellphone towers equipped with its equipment.

The United States fears that Huawei could intercept sensitive information from military bases and missile silos and transmit it to China.

In April 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce subpoenaed Huawei to inquire about the company’s policy on sharing data that its equipment can receive from cell phones. Specifically, it is talking about messaging and geolocation.

As eight current and former U.S. officials noted, the investigation reflects longstanding national security concerns about the company, which is already under a series of U.S. sanctions.

If the U.S. Department of Commerce determines that Huawei poses a threat to national security, sanctions could go beyond the restrictions imposed by the Federal Communications Commission.

In particular, the U.S. could ban all transactions with Huawei, requiring U.S. telecommunications carriers to quickly get rid of all of the company’s equipment.

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The other day Google reported that in June of this year the search engine faced a large-scale DDoS attack. It was repelled, but the company is concerned about the growing activity of hackers.

Google said it blocked the largest HTTPS-based denial of service (DDoS) attack in history in June, with the intensity reaching 46 million requests per second.
By comparison, that’s about 76% more than the previous record-breaking DDoS attack that Cloudflare had prevented earlier that month.

As Google employees Emil Keener and Satya Konduru explain: “It’s like getting all the daily requests to Wikipedia (one of the 10 most visited websites in the world) in just 10 seconds.”

The attack began around 09:45 Pacific Time (16:45 GMT) with more than 10,000 requests per second. Two minutes after that, it peaked at 46 million requests per second. By that time, Cloud Armor’s adaptive protection service had already detected the attack.

After that, the attack subsided and ended at 10:54 a.m. Pacific Time (5:54 p.m. GMT).

This attack had 5,256 outgoing IP addresses from 132 countries.

HTTPS requests, rather than HTTP, were still used on June 1. HTTPS-based attacks are more expensive because it takes more computing resources to establish a secure TLS connection.

About 22% (1,169) of the output IP addresses matched Tor’s output nodes. However, according to Google security researchers, the volume of requests from them accounted for only 3% of the traffic.

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