RememberUsenet? Its newsgroups were the beating heart of online debate for many years but have fallen from favour in recent years as Web forums and social media services took their place. It’s still very much alive though, andGoogle Groups is a popular way for its users to stay updated. At least, it was until a week ago, when it stopped updating. While Groups has continued to let users browse archived posts up to 2nd August, all newsgroups across the whole of Usenet appear as they haven’t been updated since that date....

Google has been forced to stop the collection of imaging and data for its Street View project in India, after the company received a letter from the Commissioner of Police in Bangalore,Medianama reports. The search giant hasn’t commented on the content on the Commissioner’s letter to the company but issued a statement to confirm that it was had stopped its cars whilst it addressed concerns the Police have: We can confirm that we received a letter from the Commissioner of Police regarding Street View....

Google unveiled a new site calledBughuntersto let security researchers easily report vulnerabilities. The new platform is now a unified place to report bugs forGoogle, Android, Abuse, Chrome, and Play. Prior to having this site, the company had separate programs for each of these verticals.The new site is launched simultaneously with a project calledBug Hunter University, which will help you hone your vulnerability discovery skills. The firm is also revamping the leaderboard for bug hunting, so that you can use it to find your next job....

This story is the first of two parts. If you want to find YouTube videos related to “KKK” to advertise on, Google Ads will block you. But the company failed to block dozens of other hate and White nationalist terms and slogans, an investigation by The Markup has found. Using a list of 86 hate-related terms we compiledwith the help of experts, we discovered that Google uses a blocklist to try to stop advertisers from building YouTube ad campaigns around hate terms....

Google has been allowing advertisers to exclude nonbinary people from seeing job ads Restrictive online ad targeting and discrimination While federal law prohibits discrimination by gender or race in advertising for employment and housing, there’s little in the way of case law about whether restrictive online ad targeting qualifies as discrimination. Nor is there any case law about excluding trans or nonbinary people from such ads, said Pauline Kim, a law professor at Washington University in St....