Google launched a new service to allow internet users to explore the depths of the world’s oceans from the comfort of their homes on dry land. The Ocean in Google Earth feature will allow users to dive beneath the water surface, explore 3D underwater terrain and browse ocean-related content contributed by marine scientists

Human error caused a glitch that returned the message this site may harm your computer for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said, but the mistake was Google’s and not StopBadware.org’s. Google Saturday morning released an update to its list of URLs known to install malicious software and unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs, Google Vice President of Search Products and User Experience wrote in an official Google blog post explaining the glitch. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file

Expect seven new languages in Google Translate soon: Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Hungarian, Maltese, Thai and Turkish

Google has launched Measurement Lab to reveal whether a flaky Internet connection is caused by an ISP, an application, your PC, or something else. Developed with academic researchers, Google’s M-Lab can shed new light on Net neutrality. Google’s Vint Cerf and Stephen Stuart said M-Lab will resolve measurement problems with existing data tools

Wireless access points could be used by hi-tech criminals to spread viruses and worms. Security holes and the popularity of the devices in cities make them ideal for spreading malware. Using modelling methods from real diseases the team showed how a worm could gradually infect all access points in urban areas. They found that the majority of vulnerable access points would be hit in the first 24 hours of an outbreak

An American security consultant who stole hundreds of thousands of online bank passwords by employing a massive botnet that he often administered from work deserves at least five years in prison, prosecutors have told a federal judge. The request for a minimum 60-month sentence, followed by five years of supervised release, came in the case of John Kenneth Schiefer of Los Angeles, who in November of 2007 admitted he was the hacker known alternately as Acid and Acidstorm and wielded a 250,000-strong bot army. Prosecutors rejected Schiefer’s arguments that he should be allowed to continue working as a security consultant, saying the stiff penalty was justified by the extreme callousness and brazenness of his offences