[2026-08-01] The latest IT, economic, blockchain and coin news

Google has pulled a newly launched artificial intelligence feature from Google Earth barely a day after releasing it, following a swift backlash from journalists and open-source investigators who warned it could flood the internet with convincing fake satellite imagery. The company introduced the tool on July 30, letting users zoom to any location on Google Earth's web version, click "create image," and generate a scene from a text prompt using its Nano Banana model. By July 31, it was gone.  I...