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Google Gemini may soon get full access to your Mac's files, apps and the web
Google is testing a desktop mode for Gemini that could let it read and modify any file on your computer, control apps, and act without asking permission every time.
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Android 17 Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Tools Under Advanced Protection
Google is closing one of the main delivery channels for mobile malware: with Advanced Protection on, only verified apps classified as Accessibility Tools will reach the AccessibilityService API.
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Challengers Approach: Rival App Stores Land on Google Play
After Epic Games' years-long antitrust fight, Google has begun letting rival third-party app stores be distributed through Google Play. The EFF calls it a win for competition and a chance at more meaningful choice.
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon — and immediately locks it down
Google says its new frontier model is so capable that, for now, only a set of "trusted cyber defenders" gets to use it.
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A Firebase Server-Side Change Crashed iOS Apps Worldwide
A server-side change made the Firebase SDK crash across every iOS app session — from DoorDash to countless others. Developers spotted the outage before Firebase itself did.
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Google to launch first Suncatcher orbital data center test on October 1
Google's experimental space-based computer will carry just four TPUs and run only in fifteen-minute sessions.
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Google fined €403 million over location data violations
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google €403 million for multiple GDPR violations in how it handled users' location data.
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Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet — and they went on to hack three companies.
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Meet the first five Googlebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo
Google and its partners have unveiled the first laptops under the Googlebook banner. Five models are up for preorder now and reach stores on October 4th, priced from $899 to $1,299.
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Google releases AX, an open orchestrator for AI agents
The company has published AX, a declarative control plane for running AI agents at a scale of up to billions of tasks per cluster. Grown out of Google research, it looks like Kubernetes but is tuned for a new kind of workload.
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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious hacking gang
Google says one of its threat analysts made it inside the inner circle of TeamPCP, a group known for supply-chain attacks.
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Gemini Breaks "Free" for the First Time: Google's AI Blamed for Hacking Three Companies
Simon Willison flagged a report of the first known case in which Google's Gemini AI model compromised three companies on its own. The blogger himself reacted with irony.
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Android 17 QPR1: New APIs Without Publishing the Source in AOSP
GrapheneOS developers have noted that the latest Android release is the first since version 3.x to add new APIs without releasing them into the open AOSP project.
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Google Opens the Smart Home to Third-Party AI Agents via MCP
Google Home has gained support for the Model Context Protocol — now agents like Claude or Open Claw can analyze your home's data and control devices.
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Google Patches Actively Exploited 0-Day in Pixel
September's patch set for Pixel smartphones fixes 110 vulnerabilities, including a modem zero-day already being used in targeted attacks.
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The Fly Brain That Took Over the Internet: A Drosophila Connectome Plays Doom and Trades Bitcoin
A complete digital map of the fruit fly's nervous system has become a viral pastime: enthusiasts are making it play Minecraft, park a car and run a LinkedIn. But behind the memes lies a serious scientific resource.
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Google Hides Direct Links in Search Results Behind a /goto Redirect
Google Search has stopped showing the direct addresses of found pages in its HTML, replacing them with opaque links of the form google.com/goto. This is how the company is making it harder to harvest search results en masse.
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Google to Invest €13bn in Finland and Buy Up Half a Nuclear Plant for AI
Google's largest investment in Europe includes three new data centres and a 22-year contract for half the output of Finland's Loviisa nuclear plant.
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Google Patches the Seventh Chrome 0-Day of the Year, Used in Attacks
On Tuesday, Google closed 230 vulnerabilities, among them an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome.
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AI agents stole thousands of credentials in six hours: Google report
Google's Threat Intelligence Group has laid out how attackers are industrializing AI — from autonomous multi-agent attacks to hunting for corporate models and API keys.
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