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Google Temporarily Disabled YouTube's Advanced Captions Without Warning

Google has temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced SRV3 caption format after discovering the feature was causing playback errors for some users, according to a statement the company posted. SRV3, also known as YouTube Timed Text, is a custom subtitle system Google introduced around 2018 that allows creators to use custom colors, transparency, animations, and precise text positioning. Creators cannot upload new SRV3 captions while the feature remains disabled, and existing videos that use the format may not display any captions until Google restores it. The company has provided no timeline for when SRV3 will return, and its forum post notes that changes should be temporary for "almost" all videos.

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Developer Rescues Stadia Bluetooth Tool That Google Killed

This week, Google finally shut down the official Stadia Bluetooth conversion tool... but there's no need to panic! Developer Christopher Klay preserved a copy on his personal GitHub and is hosting a fully working version of the tool on a dedicated website to make it even easier to find. The Verge's Sean Hollister reports: I haven't tried Klay's mirror, as both of my gamepads are already converted, but here's my video on how easy the process is. It's worth doing now that the pads work relatively well with Steam! I maintain that while Google made a lot of mistakes, it's an amazing example of shutting down a service the right way.

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Apple Partners With Google on Siri Upgrade, Declares Gemini 'Most Capable Foundation'

Apple has struck a multi-year partnership with Google to power a more capable version of Siri using Gemini AI models, ending months of speculation about which company would help the iPhone maker catch up in the generative AI race. In a statement, Apple said it had determined after "careful evaluation" that "Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models." The deal comes after Apple delayed its planned Siri AI upgrade last March, acknowledging that the project was taking "longer than we thought." Bloomberg had reported in August that Apple was in early talks with Google about using a custom Gemini model. Apple also explored potential partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, and CEO Tim Cook has said the company plans to integrate with more AI companies over time. The upgraded Siri is expected to perform actions on users' behalf and understand personal context.

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Cette IA a résolu un problème mathématique ouvert depuis 45 ans

Le modèle d’IA GPT-5.2 Pro a résolu plusieurs problèmes de mathématiques, dont l’un, le 11 janvier 2026, était resté ouvert depuis 45 ans. Plus que le résultat, c’est la méthode — associant humains, assistant de preuve Lean et système d’IA Aristotle — qui pourrait transformer la pratique de la démonstration mathématique.

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Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' To Gmail That Summarizes Emails

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Google is putting even more generative AI tools into Gmail as part of its goal to further personalize user inboxes and streamline searches. On Thursday, the company announced a new "AI Inbox" tab, currently in a beta testing phase, that reads every message in a user's Gmail and suggests a list of to-dos and key topics, based on what it summarizes. In Google's example of what this AI Inbox could look like in Gmail, the new tab takes context from a user's messages and suggests they reschedule their dentist appointment, reply to a request from their child's sports coach, and pay an upcoming fee before the deadline. Also under the AI Inbox tab is a list of important topics worth browsing, nestled beneath the action items at the top. Each suggested to-do and topic links back to the original email for more context and for verification. [...] For users who are concerned about their privacy, the information Google gleans by skimming through inboxes will not be used to improve the company's foundational AI models. "We didn't just bolt AI onto Gmail," says Blake Barnes, who leads the project for Google. "We built a secure privacy architecture, specifically for this moment." He emphasizes that users can turn off Gmail's new AI tools if they don't want them. At the same time Google announced its AI Inbox, the company made free for all Gmail users multiple Gemini features that were previously available only to paying subscribers. This includes the Help Me Write tool, which generates emails from a user prompt, as well as AI Overviews for email threads, which essentially posts a TL;DR summary at the top of long message threads. Subscribers to Google's Ultra and Pro plans, which start at $20 a month, get two additional new features in their Gmail inbox. First, an AI proofreading tool that suggests more polished grammar and sentence structures. And second, an AI Overviews tool that can search your whole inbox and create relevant summaries on a topic, rather than just summarizing a single email thread.

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Certains mails ne vous parviennent plus ? C’est normal, Gmail a coupé cette fonction clé en janvier

Google commence l’année 2026 en rompant avec une vieille habitude de nombreux utilisateurs de Gmail. À partir de janvier, la version web du service de messagerie ne pourra plus récupérer les mails provenant d’autres boîtes, comme c’était possible jusqu’à présent. D’autres fonctionnalités ont également tiré leur révérence.

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Google To Kill Gmail's POP3 Mail Fetching

Google is quietly killing Gmail's ability to fetch mail from third-party email accounts using POP3, a long-standing feature that has allowed users to consolidate multiple inboxes into a single Gmail interface. The change takes effect this month and also ends Gmailify, the companion feature that applied Gmail's spam filtering and inbox organization to linked third-party accounts. Google buried the decision in a support note rather than making any formal announcement. The company's suggested workaround -- switching to IMAP -- doesn't work for all affected users. Users can still access third-party accounts through the Gmail mobile app, but the Gmail service itself will no longer retrieve messages from external providers.

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Google a un comportement de violeur

J'ai appuyé longuement par erreur sur le bouton "Home" de mon smartphone Android.
Google Gemini est apparu. L'IA de Google.
Je ne l'ai pas installé. Google l'a installé. Sans me demander mon avis. Sans me prévenir.
Il n'existe aucun paramètre permettant de le couper. Google n'entendra pas que vous n'en voulez pas.
Vous ne pouvez pas non plus le dé-installer, car il est intégré à l'application "Google" de base. Il faut donc dé-installer ou désactiver totalement l'application Google si vous voulez vous en débarasser.
Et dans la foulée, Google m'a envoyé deux mails. "Voulez-vous en savoir plus ? Voulez vous faire plus ?" À aucun moment dans le mail il n'y a "Je ne veux pas".
En fait, il n'y a même aucun lien permettant de se désabonner facilement des mails de Gemini.

Google ne veut pas entendre que vous n'en voulez pas, que vous n'êtes pas d'accord. Google ne veut pas entendre que vous voulez qu'il retire son Gemini de votre téléphone. Il ne veut même pas entendre que vous n'en ayez pas envie, que vous ne vouliez pas l'utiliser. C'est un comportement de violeur.

J'ai donc totalement viré l'appli Google (que j'avais dû réactiver à je ne sais plus quelle occasion), et j'ai créé un filtre Sieve sur mon serveur de mail afin de ne plus jamais voir les mails de Gemini.

Google a un comportement de violeur.
Microsoft aussi.

L'IA, c'est leur bite. Comme les violeurs, ils sont persuadés qu'elle est fantastique et qu'ils ont la plus grosse. Et que forcément, plus c'est gros mieux c'est. Et que vous en avez forcément envie. Alors ils vous la fourrent partout, sans votre consentement. Ils ne vous entendront pas dire "non", parce que pour eux c'est inconcevable.
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