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Google is rolling out a new privacy-focused feature called Shielded Email, designed to prevent apps and services from accessing users’ primary email addresses during sign-ups. The feature, first discovered in a Google Play Services APK teardown by…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company’s Gemini AI products to be in the office “at least every weekday” [non-paywalled source] and suggested “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity,” according to an interna…
Google changed its rules around how product-review sites appear in its search engine. In the process, it devastated a once-lucrative corner [non-paywalled source] of the news media world. From a report: Sites including CNN Underscored and Forbes Vetted…
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Google have successfully tested technology that uses smartphone sensors to detect subway track defects, the MTA said Thursday. The four-month experiment, dubbed TrackInspect, mounted six Google …
Recent revelations about Google’s SafetyCore app have ignited a firestorm of privacy debates, echoing Apple’s recent controversy over photo scanning. The app, silently installed on Android devices via system updates, enables on-device image analysis to…
A financial management app named Finance Simplified has been revealed as a malicious tool for stealing sensitive user data and engaging in blackmail. Despite its fraudulent nature, the app managed to accumulate over 100,000 downloads from the Google Pl…
Qualcomm says it’s working with Google to ensure that Android device manufacturers will be able to provide security updates for 8 years.
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Google, in collaboration with its Mandiant Threat Intelligence team, has issued a warning about a surge in phishing campaigns targeting higher education institutions in the United States. These campaigns, observed since August 2024, have exploited the …
Google has launched a free version of Gemini Code Assist, offering developers substantially higher usage limits than competing services. From a report: The AI coding assistant, powered by the fine-tuned Gemini 2.0 model, allows up to 180,000 code compl…
A malicious Android application, Finance Simplified (package: com.someca.count), has been identified on the Google Play Store, targeting Indian users under the guise of a financial management tool. The app, which claims to offer an EMI calculator, is i…