Google just made Gemini for Home a lot better at running your smart home

Google has rolled out a new Gemini for Home update with smarter camera search, faster device controls, better onboarding, and new Google Home app improvements.

How to watch Google’s Android Show: I/O Edition today
How to watch Google’s Android Show: I/O Edition today

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google’s big announcements kick off today with the “Android Show: I/O Edition,” where it’s expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer conference. When the Android Show will happen and where you can watch it Android Show: I/O Edition will be streaming […]

Apple and Google just put a lock on your green-bubble texts, and it’s about time

Texting between an iPhone and an Android just got a whole lot more private. Apple and Google’s historic joint rollout of end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging.

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company’s devices more seamless.

Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone
Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone

Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 26.5, which was released on Monday, Apple added support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in beta, meaning that Apple and Google can’t see your messages while they’re sent. With iOS 26.5, you’ll see a […]

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), “prominent cyber crime threat actors” were planning to use the vulnerability for a “mass exploitation event” that would have allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed […]

Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build
Alphabet adds the yen to its bond programme, in a debut Samurai issue, funding the AI build

Mizuho, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have the mandate. Pricing is expected this month. The trade follows Alphabet’s record CHF, sterling and euro issuances in February and last week’s $17bn euro-Canadian-dollar combination, all targeted at the $…

The makers of security-first GrapheneOS are putting Google and Apple’s tactics on blast

Google’s reCAPTCHA is testing a system that requires you to scan a QR code with an Apple or Google-certified phone. Here’s why that matters more than it sounds.

AI-pilled graduates are not a big hit for finance jobs with their shallow ideas

Finance firms are reassessing AI-native graduates as concerns grow over shallow analysis, weak critical thinking, and excessive dependence on generative AI tools.