Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, May 17th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

If you've been letting some of your Google accounts sit fallow,

you'd better take a look into that because Google is going to start

deleting things soon.

Why some new top-level domains have people concerned, why tech companies are racing to

put generative AI on your phone.

And part two of the open source versus centralized AI

debate.

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This is perhaps urgent news for some of you out there. Google has updated its inactivity policy and going forward accounts inactive for at least two years will be deleted except

for those with YouTube videos attached. This will start happening in

December so if you have old Google accounts that I don't know have emails or photos or whatnot from some

earlier period in your life and you've just been letting it sit there dormant because

you've been assuming it's fine. Yeah you're going to want to make arrangements, quoting 9 to 5 Google.

If a Google account has not been used or signed into for at least two years, Google will

delete that personal account and its contents.

In addition to the email address becoming

inaccessible, Gmail messages, calendar events, drive, docks, and other workspace files,

as well as Google Photos backups will be removed.

At the moment, Google is not planning to delete accounts with YouTube videos that would be tricky

as some old abandoned clips might have historical relevance.

Google will start deleting inactive accounts

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