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319 Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs hijacked searches for ad revenue
A Socket researcher has detailed a sprawling campaign in which hundreds of Chrome extensions quietly routed users' searches through operator-controlled servers to collect referral payments from Bing and Yahoo.
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Google and Meta subsea cables in the Pacific among the most exposed to sabotage
US-owned trans-Pacific undersea cables face growing risks from sabotage. China's activity around this infrastructure is adding to Big Tech's concerns.
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Anthropic's IPO: VCs will make billions, but Amazon stands to make far more
Anthropic's IPO filing shows that no venture firm owns even 5% of the company. Amazon looks set to be the biggest winner, thanks to convertible notes that have multiplied in value over three years.
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Google starts certifying third-party Android app stores, but not in the US
Google has opened applications for its Registered App Stores program, which will let approved third-party stores offer Android users easier app installs. The program does not extend to the US.
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How Google’s AI search turned online publishing upside down
AI-powered search features gutted traffic to publishers who spent years courting the search engine. Google insists the web is thriving — the numbers suggest otherwise.
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Linux Drops Google's C Binder Driver as Rust Version Takes Over "Few Billion Devices"
The char/misc changes for Linux 7.4 remove Google's C-written Binder driver. The Rust implementation now takes over the role for good, destined to run on all future Android devices.
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Google now says it may use your Gmail and Photos data to target ads
Google has updated its privacy policy so that, if you turn on personalized AI features, the contents of your mail, drive, and photos may be used to serve personalized ads.
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Chrome to Warn Users About ClickFix Command Traps
Google is adding ClickFix protection to Chrome: with Enhanced Protection on, the browser spots suspicious clipboard commands and warns users before they run them.
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Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs
The company has released torch_tpu, a project that lets PyTorch models and operations run directly on Google's Tensor Processing Units. The code ships under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Google silently links your phone number across all signed-in accounts
According to Android Authority, Google automatically ties a phone number to the various accounts a user is signed into on a device.
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To report an Android bug, a developer had to disassemble libc
AOSP source releases for recent Android 17 builds lag so far behind what actually ships on devices that a developer had to disassemble libc.so to analyze a regression in bionic.
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Google finally ships Gemini 4 Argon
After months of lagging in the frontier AI race, Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, claiming the model can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best.
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Fingerprints Are the New Cookies: How Your Browser Gives You Away
The author of royfish.dev explains why the age of third-party cookies has given way to device fingerprinting — and why Chrome makes you identifiable without ever asking for consent.
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Google ordered to halt data centre work in Finland over forest clearing
Finnish authorities have told Google to temporarily stop work on two data centre sites after it cleared hundreds of hectares of forest without finishing the required environmental impact assessment.
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Google unveils a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
At its Gemini at Work event the company showed a "universal" AI agent that runs in the background and handles assignments from a single interface. For now access is limited to enterprise customers in a private preview.
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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other services
Attackers managed to issue unauthorized TLS certificates for Google and several other large services after compromising three domain registries.
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Why Embedding Models Should Be Open
Simon Willison explains why an open license matters more for embedding models than for many other AI systems: the Apache 2.0 license on EmbeddingGemma 2 is insurance against the model simply disappearing.
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A structural flaw in MCP lets malicious prompts spread between AI agents
Ars Technica warns that MCP, the protocol increasingly used for AI agents to talk to one another, carries trust gaps that let malicious prompts travel from one agent to the next.
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Google Pauses Open-Source Bug Bounty as AI Spam Floods In
A surge of auto-generated reports has pushed Google to temporarily stop accepting submissions to its OSS VRP. Fixes to the program are promised for early 2027.
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Black Boxes Didn't Help: Google Data Center Figures Leak via Copy-Paste
Google marked its Nebraska data centers' water and power usage as a trade secret, but a botched redaction let anyone read the hidden figures simply by selecting the text.
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