A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its appeal of a judge’s order requiring an overhaul of the technology giant’s app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc.

Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showing the deactivation message nine months ago on URLs that “showed no activity in late 2024” — but otherwise,

Google has opted for a mixed approach: links that showed no activity in late 2024 will be deactivated, while those that did will remain usable.

Meta lets you share your chats with its AI bot to a public feed. Google can index that feed — and make your searchable and public.

Following a Fast Company report that found sensitive conversations appearing in search results, OpenAI removed a controversial sharing option and began working to de-index exposed content. OpenAI has removed a controversial opt-in feature that had led to some private chats appearing in Google search results,