A civil-society coalition wants EU browsers to send a machine-readable privacy signal instead of showing consent pop-ups. The Council deleted the provision on June 18.
A comment on a Google issue tracker floated binding ADB to the Wi-Fi interface only. That one change would kill loopback debugging, Shizuku, and every debloater built on it.
HBM stacks for AI accelerators outbid the DRAM in phones and laptops. Qualcomm, Roku and Google have all repriced, and IDC sees PC prices up 18.3% this year.
Brussels fined Google 890 million euros, its first Digital Markets Act penalty, for self-preferencing in Search and blocking app developers from steering users to cheaper deals.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cyber specialist, and teased Gemini 4. The 3.5 Pro tier it promised in May still isn't out.
Android 17 is rolling out to Pixel first. Here's what actually shipped, from Bubbles and Screen Reactions to tighter location privacy, and which features are still coming.
Google has pushed its frontier Gemini 3.5 Pro to July while Flash already ships, according to Business Insider. Here's what slipped and why it matters.
Google's Gemini-powered Home Speaker opens for pre-order at $99.99 and ships June 25, with 360-degree audio and a new voice assistant replacing the Nest Mini.
Volkswagen's app stopped working on GrapheneOS, the hardened Android fork. The leading explanation is a Play Integrity attestation check that flags non-Google builds.
Google's Android Show pitched Gemini Intelligence and AppFunctions, an MCP-style way for the assistant to call inside your apps. Here's how it works and what to watch.
At WWDC 2026 Apple shipped Siri AI, rebuilt on a custom Google Gemini model running on its own servers. Here are the catches behind the demo.
Google's June 2026 Android bulletin patches an actively exploited Framework privilege-escalation zero-day plus 123 other flaws. Here's who's at risk and what to do.
DuckDuckGo's US downloads climbed about 30% and its no-AI search page saw 28% more visits the week after Google's I/O push. The backlash is now measurable.
Chromium Issue 1396278 went public on May 20 because Google's tracker auto-clears restrictions on stale closed bugs. The flaw, reported in 2022, was never fixed.
YouTube, HBO Max, and others stopped listing the 2013 Chromecast as a cast target. Google EOL'd the hardware in 2023 and isn't commenting.
The Android Show confirmed Fall 2026 for Google and Samsung's first AR glasses, plus three new features for the Galaxy XR headset that launched in October.
Apple and Google began rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS on May 11. The MLS-based encryption rides on GSMA Universal Profile 3.0, but EFF says the rollout leaves real gaps.
Google announced Googlebook on May 12: a premium laptop tier above Chromebook, with a Gemini-aware cursor called Magic Pointer. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are in.