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Tech
Google Chrome Is About to Break Older Ad Blockers
Google is removing the last workaround for older Chrome extensions. This change will permanently disable popular ad blockers built on Manifest V2, forcing developers and users to adopt the newer, more restrictive Manifest V3 platform.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Infra
Lombardy Adds 200% Data Center Tax
The Lombardy region in Italy has introduced a new policy that can increase construction charges for data centers by up to 200%. The higher fees apply specifically to facilities built on green or agricultural land, reflecting a growing pushback against the environmental impact of tech infrastructure.
Ashish Kale ·
Tech
Google's Hidden Flight Simulator Is Now in Your Browser
Google has made its long-hidden flight simulator, a feature of the desktop Google Earth app since 2007, available directly in web browsers. This makes the powerful tool accessible to anyone without needing a separate download or installation.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Tech
Open source experiments shaped JPEG XL
Google details the development of JPEG XL, highlighting how open-source experiments and collaboration were crucial. The new image format aims to offer better compression and features than existing formats like JPEG, PNG, and GIF, building on lessons from past projects like WebP and Guetzli.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
Developers Seek Google Search Alternatives
A discussion among tech professionals highlights growing dissatisfaction with Google Search's quality, citing a rise in SEO spam and less useful results. This has led many to actively explore and adopt alternative search engines to improve productivity and find more accurate information.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
Euro-Office Offers Open Source Google Docs Rival
A new open-source web office suite, Euro-Office, has launched its first version. It allows companies to self-host their own office tools, providing a direct alternative to services like Google Workspace for greater data sovereignty and control.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Security
Attackers Abuse Google DoubleClick Domain
A new malspam campaign is using Google's DoubleClick domain to bypass security filters and deliver a remote access trojan (RAT). By routing traffic through the trusted Google service first, attackers can evade detection before redirecting victims to their own malicious infrastructure.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
DuckDuckGo Sees Surge After Google AI
Following Google's rollout of AI Overviews, privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo experienced a nearly 28% increase in visits. This data suggests a notable portion of users may be actively seeking alternatives to AI-integrated search results, signaling a potential shift in user preferences and the search market.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Tech
Google Chrome Is Disabling Ad Blocker Workarounds
Google is ending workarounds used by popular ad blockers like uBlock Origin in its Chrome browser. The change, part of the Manifest V3 transition, means many content-blocking extensions will become significantly less effective on Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Infra
Find Your Most Expensive Data in Google Cloud
Google Cloud launched a new feature called Storage Insights. It provides detailed reports on data access and usage patterns, helping companies manage massive storage footprints, cut costs, and boost security.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
How Google Runs A/B Tests
Google has detailed its internal system for managing A/B tests across its global services. The framework standardizes experiment assignment, logging, and configuration to ensure consistent measurement, reduce conflicts, and improve the reliability of data-driven decisions for its vast product portfolio.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Cloud Simplifies Maintenance Management
Google Cloud is introducing a new way to manage planned maintenance. Instead of tracking individual resource updates across many projects, teams can now view maintenance events in the context of their business services. This change aims to reduce operational overhead for platform and SRE teams.
Ashish Kale ·
Security
New macOS Backdoor Spreads via Ads
A new malvertising campaign on Google and YouTube is distributing a macOS backdoor called FlutterShell. The operation, codenamed FlutterBridge, is believed to be an evolution of a previous campaign by the same cybercrime group, targeting macOS users with sophisticated social engineering tactics.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Google Fights AI Threats With Its Own AI
Google has launched Google AI Threat Defense, an automated system to find and stop AI-powered cyberattacks. The new tool helps security teams respond faster to sophisticated threats before they can damage a business.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Major Developer Malware Network Disrupted
CrowdStrike, Google, and the Shadowserver Foundation have successfully disrupted the GlassWorm malware campaign. This operation dismantled the command-and-control infrastructure used in a persistent software supply chain attack that targeted developers with malicious packages and extensions since at least early 2025.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Gemma 4 Delivers Faster Inference
Google has introduced Gemma 4, a new version of its open model. It uses multi-token prediction to generate tokens up to three times faster without sacrificing quality. This major performance boost can significantly reduce inference costs and improve user experience for developers and businesses.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Data
Google Looker Now Lets You Talk to Your Dashboards
Google is adding conversational AI agents to its Looker dashboards. This lets users ask follow-up questions directly within their reports, getting answers without needing to ask a data analyst for help.
Taranpreet Singh ·
Security
Google Fights AI Deepfake Scam Calls
Google is introducing a new feature to detect fake calls that use AI deepfake technology. As scammers increasingly spoof trusted numbers and impersonate people, this tool aims to protect users from sophisticated social engineering attacks by identifying and flagging potential AI-generated voices during calls.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google's New AI Model Generates Text Four Times Faster
Google has released DiffusionGemma, a new type of AI model that generates text up to four times faster than current methods. This new architecture could significantly lower the cost and improve the speed of AI-powered applications.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Chinese Phishing Services Evolve Rapidly
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reports a rapid rise in Chinese-language Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms. These services are evolving beyond simple credential theft, now using real-time interception and token hijacking to bypass multi-factor authentication, marking a significant shift in the threat landscape.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Google Patches Actively Exploited Android Flaw
Google's June 2026 Android update addresses 124 security flaws. One vulnerability, a high-severity privilege escalation bug in the Framework component (CVE-2025-48595), is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw allows attackers to gain higher privileges on a device without any user interaction.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Search Prioritizes AI Answers
Google has officially integrated AI-generated answers, or "AI Overviews," directly into its main search results. This move fundamentally alters the search landscape, moving away from the traditional "10 blue links" model. Businesses must now re-evaluate their SEO and content strategies to adapt.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Security
Android Gemini Hijacked By Notifications
A critical vulnerability allowed Google Gemini on Android to be hijacked by a single poisoned notification from trusted apps like WhatsApp or Slack. Attackers could force actions like sending fake messages or joining calls without needing a malicious app on the device.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Your AI Safety Filters Might Not Be Working
Google DeepMind researchers found that simply filtering out undesirable content from an AI's training data is not an effective safety measure. This highlights a fundamental challenge in preventing harmful outputs from large language models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
How Gemini AI Really Learns to Be Safe
Google DeepMind researchers discovered that Gemini's safety features primarily come from supervised fine-tuning (SFT), not reinforcement learning (RL) as commonly thought. This changes how we understand and build safe AI models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Tests a New Standard for AI on Websites
Google is testing a new web standard, WebMCP, that allows AI agents to interact with websites directly. This creates a reliable way for AI to perform tasks, replacing older, error-prone methods like screen scraping.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Tech
Google Aims to Fix AI's Bad Angular Code
Google's Angular team released a new tool to help AI assistants write modern, correct code. It provides AI with up-to-date conventions, aiming to stop the generation of outdated or incorrect Angular snippets for developers.
Navdeep Kaur Mahal ·
Infra
Google Tool Makes AI Inference 92% Faster
Google Cloud's new GKE Inference Gateway can speed up AI model responses by up to 92%. It works by intelligently routing workloads to minimize idle time, making AI infrastructure more efficient and cost-effective.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Google Connects AI to Databases
Google Cloud has announced the general availability of its managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB. This new service provides a direct and secure connection for AI models and agents to access real-time data stored in AlloyDB databases, improving the quality of context for AI-powered applications.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Former Google CEO Booed For AI Talk
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates during his commencement speech. He told the class their task was to shape AI, prompting a negative reaction. Schmidt acknowledged their fears about job loss and the future were "rational," highlighting growing public skepticism.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Tests Gemini for Deceptive Behavior
Google DeepMind has published new research on AI safety, specifically testing if its Gemini models exhibit "scheming" behavior. The studies evaluate whether the models would sabotage their own safeguards, a crucial concern as AI agents become more autonomous and integrated into critical systems.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Top AI Models Disagree On Facts
A recent analysis reveals that leading AI models from major providers frequently disagree on basic, real-world facts. This challenges the assumption of factual consistency among frontier LLMs and highlights a fundamental reliability issue for developers and businesses building on this technology.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Google Cloud Suspension Causes Major Outage
Railway, a developer platform, experienced an eight-hour, platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cause was an automated, unannounced suspension of its production account by Google Cloud. The incident highlighted the risks of hosting a critical control plane on a single cloud provider, even with multi-cloud workloads.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
DeepMind CEO sees AGI accelerating
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stated that progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) is accelerating. He predicts AGI could arrive around 2030, but possibly as soon as 2029 or even earlier. This updated timeline suggests society has only a few years to prepare for its impact.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Adds Middleware to Genkit AI
Google has updated its open-source AI framework, Genkit, with a new middleware architecture. This feature provides a programmable layer for developers to intercept and control model calls and tool execution, enhancing reliability, safety, and orchestration for production-level AI applications.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Anthropic acquires dev tool startup Stainless
AI company Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York-based developer tools startup. As part of the deal, Stainless will wind down its hosted products. The startup's tools were used by major tech companies, including competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, to streamline development processes.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google unveils autonomous AI agent
Google has announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent designed to operate 24/7, even when devices are off. It can draft emails, manage documents, and monitor inboxes, with future plans to handle purchases. This marks Google's push towards more autonomous AI assistants amid intense industry competition.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Search Box Becomes Everything Box
Google announced a major overhaul of its search box at I/O. The new search bar will be more than a query tool; it aims to be an all-in-one assistant. It will dynamically expand for longer queries and offer advanced AI-powered suggestions that go beyond simple autocomplete.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Search gets a major AI overhaul
Google is integrating AI-generated summaries, called AI Overviews, directly into its main search results. This feature is now the default for users in the U.S., with a global rollout planned. The goal is to provide direct, synthesized answers for complex questions, fundamentally changing the traditional search experience.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Google Redesigns Search Box With AI
Google is updating its search box for the first time since 2001, integrating AI to make it larger and more interactive. Users can now ask longer questions, upload media like photos and videos, and use a chatbot for follow-ups directly on the main search page.
Neeraj Dhiman ·