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Chrome once again makes an exception for Google in its site-data deletion settings
Developer Jeff Johnson has discovered that Chrome keeps google.com data even when the option to automatically delete all site data on closing windows is enabled. He found a similar bug six years ago.
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Gemini Advised Packing Less Food — Three Hikers Rescued from Mount Shasta
Three young men planned an ascent of California's Mount Shasta with the help of Google's chatbot and spent the night in a canyon waiting for rescuers.
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Google Patches Actively Exploited 0-Day in Chrome's V8 Engine
An emergency Chrome update fixes 12 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-85046 in the V8 engine, for which a working exploit already exists.
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Google Won't Be Forced to Sell Its Ad Exchange Despite Losing Antitrust Case
A U.S. federal court has rejected the Justice Department's key demand: Google gets to keep its AdX ad exchange. Across three antitrust cases, Google comes out almost unscathed.
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Google Pushes Links Even Lower: AI Overviews Now Expand on Their Own
Google has started automatically expanding AI summaries at the top of its results for some queries, pushing the familiar list of links far down the page.
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Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: More Control Over Video Generation
Google has unveiled an update to its generative video model, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. Developers get scene extension, keyframe control and 4K output.
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Google Experiments with Packaging Chrome in the Flatpak Format
Google engineers have added experimental support for packaging Chrome and Chromium as Flatpaks, but they aren't yet promising official maintenance of the format.
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Russian Hackers Hijack Accounts via Google OAuth and WhatsApp Device Linking
Google Threat Intelligence Group has profiled three clusters of suspected Russian cyberespionage that abuse legitimate authentication mechanisms to seize the personal accounts of diplomats, academics and defense specialists.
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Google Unveils HEIR: A Compiler for Private AI on Encrypted Data
Google has released HEIR, an open-source compiler that lets neural networks run computations directly on encrypted data — with no decryption on the server. The technology promises to resolve the age-old conflict between the convenience of cloud services and user privacy.
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Court Orders Google to Make Installing Third-Party App Stores on Android Easier
Judge James Donato sided with Epic Games: Google is still artificially complicating the installation of competing app stores — and he ordered the needless obstacles removed within a week.
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Chrome Will Protect Accounts from Session Cookie Theft
Google has built a device-bound session credentials mechanism into Chrome that ties a session to a hardware key store. The move is meant to shut down one of today's most common ways of hijacking accounts.
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Google's Gemini App Hits One Billion Users
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has crossed the one-billion-monthly-active-users mark, making it the company's 14th product to reach that audience.
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Why Hacking Groups Get Codenames: Google Explains
Google has revamped its naming system for hacking groups. The company's top “hacker hunter” told TechCrunch why codenames aren't a game, but a defensive tool.
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Jeff Dean Is Leaving Google to Speed Up Science with AI
One of Google's longest-serving executives, together with several of the company's leading researchers, has founded Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific experiments.
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Google Assistant to be shut off on phones and tablets from September 4
With Gemini's arrival, the voice assistant's fate was sealed. Google is beginning to cut off access to Assistant on Android devices — the process kicks off on September 4.
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Public Claude Chats Turned Up in Google Search Results
Conversations with Claude containing private crypto-wallet keys and personal data ended up in Google's index. Anthropic's response: users have only themselves to blame.
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Chrome Prepares to Block New-Tab Hijacker Extensions
Google is developing a protection that will stop malicious programs from swapping out Chrome's start page and search engine through enterprise policies. The feature is still in development.
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Chrome is testing an email verification protocol with no emails and no one-time codes
Google has launched an origin trial for the Email Verification API — a mechanism that lets a site confirm a user owns the address they entered, without sending them an email with a link or a code.
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Reddit Questions the Value of Google AI Overviews Amid Falling Stock
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has cast doubt on the value of the AI Overviews feature, and the company is reportedly considering breaking off its licensing deal with Google.
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Google Will Leave Developers in Sanctioned Countries Out of Android Verification
Starting next month, Google will begin blocking the installation of apps from unverified developers, but residents of Iran, Cuba and North Korea will be excluded from the checks — along with the ability to distribute software beyond their own borders.
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