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In the two and a half years that we've been talking about prompt injection attacks I've seen alarmingly little progress towards a robust solution. The new paper Defeating Prompt Injections by Design from Google DeepMind finally bucks that trend. This one is worth paying attention to. If you're new t...

YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool that can generate instrumental tracks to use in videos for free without worrying about copyright claims, TechCrunch reports. The new feature was demonstrated in a video posted on the company’s Creator Insider channel this week. In the video, the host, Lauren,...

Chrome for Android is getting a neat visual upgrade.

When you’re building a side project, chances are you need to collect user events so that you can understand user behaviors better and eventually improve your product. So recently I made a small ClojureScript library for that, it supports web apps or chrome extensions. Check it out at https://github....

Ever since Google debuted the original Pixel Watch in 2022, improving battery life has been a major focus of subsequent iterations of the smartwatch. Based on new leaks of the upcoming Pixel Watch 4, it looks like that might be the case again. Renders published by 91mobiles from leaker OnLeaks show ...

"These always make me chuckle." Vigilant shopper calls out thrift store after making surprising discovery on item label: 'Expose them on Google reviews' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Even weirder: why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?

For manga lovers, there are two options: an e-reader with a good store and an Android e-reader with Google Play. The post The Best eReaders for Manga Lovers first appeared on Good e-Reader.

Razer has finally launched its platform for streaming PC games to mobile devices at their native screen resolutions, aspect ratios, and refresh rates. Razer PC Remote Play is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play and is compatible with Windows, Apple, and Android mobile devices...

LLM pricing calculator (updated) I updated my LLM pricing calculator this morning (Claude transcript) to show the prices of various hosted models in a sorted table, defaulting to lowest price first. Amazon Nova and Google Gemini continue to dominate the lower end of the table. The most expensive mod...

Google will knock 71% off government Workspace subscriptions for a limited time.

Google's unnamed XR glasses include a display and AI connectivity, but we have no idea if Google will ever release it.

Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform. Canva’s Visual Suite is being redesigned to combine its design and productivity tools into a single interface, alongsi...

Also: Git turns 20, a new trend of AI cost saving pressure at developer agencies, John Carmack on how LLMs will impact the industry, and more

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts say these groups are n...

The billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy awards for science. They should fund the research the Trump administration has canned

After a bit of a brief, unexpected delay due to a component issue, the Google Pixel 9A is here — and it was worth the wait. Allison Johnson’s review of the midrange phone just went live today, and the 9A seems like the ideal phone for those who want many of the same perks found […]

The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it’s considering s...

The Pixel 9a looks great and shoots lovely photos, but it's light on AI.

With affordable phones like this, who needs flagships? The Pixel 9a is all the essentials (and AI) packed into a friendlier price point.

The A-series Pixels have been very good over the past few years. And in the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a good midrange phone and made it great. It’s $499, which feels just right for what you get in the 9A. Spend a bit more for the Pixel 9, and you’ll get some upgrades like […]

Oppo’s new Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant in the ongoing competition between Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to produce the world’s best camera phone. But unlike its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger might not be better. Let’s be clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn’t a small phone by any means, with a 6.82-...

China says it will cut the number of US films that are imported into the country in retaliation against the latest wave of tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration. A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we’ve translated using Google, said that the...

An interview with Google Cloud Platform CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's infrastructure advantage and building and enterprise service culture.

This week I received a lot of submissions to airportpianos.org, the index of pianos in airports that I maintain. Submissions come through a Google Form. The form is intentionally brief 1, asking for two pieces of information: the airport name and the location of the piano. When I receive a submissio...

An LLM Query Understanding Service Doug Turnbull recently wrote about how all search is structured now: Many times, even a small open source LLM will be able to turn a search query into reasonable structure at relatively low cost. In this follow-up tutorial he demonstrates Qwen 2-7B running in a GPU...

Gemini 2.5 is starting to move beyond its experimental phase.

Were you clamoring for two AI-generated podcast hosts to talk through the key points of your document before you send it to your boss? No? Well, you’re getting it anyway. Google has announced new Gemini features coming to Workspace apps, including NotebookLM-style AI podcasts integrated right into G...

Like Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Valve, Epic, and everyone else before it The post With The Switch 2, Even Nintendo Wants To Trap You In An Ecosystem appeared first on Aftermath.

Google is trying to make it easier for users of its video AI model Veo 2 to make cinematic-looking generations and edit real footage. The new Veo 2 capabilities are available to preview via Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, alongside other updates to improve Google’s text-to-image generator, Imagen...

Ironwood will be available in configurations of up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips.

Following an announcement last week that Sphere Entertainment was creating an immersive version of The Wizard of Oz for its unique Las Vegas venue, we now have more details on how companies like Google and Magnopus are using AI to enhance the 86-year-old film to fill the Sphere’s massive 160,000-squ...

Samsung’s round robot, Ballie, is now using Google Gemini alongside “proprietary” AI models. We still need to see it to believe it.

Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform data so that cities, developers, and other business decision makers can more easily access information about things like infrastructure and traffic, the company announced on Wednesday. Google is integrating new datasets for Google Maps Platform directly ...

Secure AI coding with Snyk and Google Gemini. Learn how Snyk Code’s SAST integrates with Gemini Code Assist for seamless, secure development workflows.

Google is beginning to roll out its Loss of Pulse Detection feature to Pixel Watch 3 owners in the U.S. Loss of Pulse Detection, the smartwatch’s marquee health feature, calls emergency services if the Pixel Watch 3 can’t pick up your heartbeat while wearing it. It was initially announced alongside ...

Turns out grifting is harder when an entire country can Google your name. TMZ reports that Fyre Festival 2 —the sequel nobody asked for — just got bounced from its second Mexican location like a tourist trying to pay with Trump meme coins. — Read the rest The post Fyre festival scam artist is having...

Google’s Gemini Live camera and screenshare functions, which let the conversational AI chatbot answer questions about the stuff you’re looking at in real-time, are rolling out now on Pixel 9 series phones and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices. The free update is also coming soon to other Android devices, b...

Google TV streaming devices will be required to have a “Free TV” or “Live TV” button on their remotes that opens up the Live tab where you can watch free, ad-supported TV channels via Google TV FreePlay, a company spokesperson confirmed to Android Authority. “Google TV gives users access to a wide r...

Google has released patches for 62 vulnerabilities in Android's April 2025 security update, including two zero-days exploited in targeted attacks. [...]

Custom fonts provide your apps with a unique identity. Explore modern ways to add custom fonts in a React Native app, including Google Fonts. The post How to add custom fonts in React Native appeared first on LogRocket Blog.

Google is adding multimodal capabilities to its search-centric AI Mode chatbot that enable it to “see” and answer questions about images, as it expands access to AI Mode to “millions more” users. The update combines a custom version of Gemini AI with the company’s Lens image recognition tech, allowi...

Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Google Play Books are breaking California Law AB 2426. The post B&N, Kobo, and Google Play Books Are Breaking California Law first appeared on Good e-Reader.

Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externali...

If you’re taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you’ve got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn’t have cellular connectivity built in): hunt around for a Wi-Fi network you can connect to or run a Wi-Fi hotspot from your phone. Run...

"Our plans are always evolving." Google makes major announcement about its future operations: 'There's a huge opportunity here' first appeared on The Cool Down.

I would like to make an amendment to an article I published last month comparing the risks of popular U.S. technology companies with concerns previously reserved for those from China. I wrote: In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg lamented an apparently lost leadership by the U....

President Donald Trump’s additional 75 day delay to TikTok’s sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up “against the law.” After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 12 Republican member...