148 results for “Google”

CVE-2026-58882, "SMS of Death", is a zero-click Android denial-of-service flaw in WapPushOverSms.decodeWapPdu, where an unchecked header-length value becomes negative and triggers a NegativeArraySizeException that crashes com.android.phone. A malformed eight-byte WAP Push message to port 2948 can drop calls, including emergency calls, and about 20 messages caused reboot loops. A PoC is public. Google patched Android 14 through 17 in October 2026, but Android 12 and 13 remain vulnerable.

bleepingcomputer.comarticlePublished and added 31 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AINews issue for 29 to 30 October 2026 from Latent Space. It opens on Google's admission that AI Mode monetises worse than classic Search, which preceded a roughly 15% share drop. It then recaps Claude Ultra dropping the 5-hour limit, Gemini 4 Carbon, Mistral Large 4, Nemotron 3.5, Artificial Analysis Index v5, Unsloth GGUF disputes, and the Anthropic S-1 filing.

latent.spacearticlePublished and added 31 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Project Suncatcher is a Google research effort to power AI compute in space. Its prototype satellite launched on 1 October 2026 and, after commissioning, returned the first AI response from a data-center-class TPU in orbit: a haiku from the onboard Gemma 4 open model, downlinked over Svalbard. Next come thermal-stress and radiation tests, then twin interconnected satellites in 2027.

blog.googlearticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Oversecured's Android security checklist for Content Providers covers insecure FileProvider path configs, path traversal via decoded Uri.getLastPathSegment(), mismatched readPermission/writePermission, proxying requests to more privileged providers, SQL injection across a shared database, and sensitive actions in providers. Each case has vulnerable manifest and Java code, an attacker PoC and remediation. Real cases from Google and Samsung devices are cited. The page text was truncated near the end.

oversecured.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Oversecured Apps Care, Part 1 (21 March 2024) publishes scanner results for about 224 Google Android apps, drawn from a wider scan of over 6,000 public APKs from 1,000+ companies. Tables per device image (phone, Wear OS, Android Automotive, Android TV) give package names, three finding counts and report links, including android, com.android.settings, gms and Play Store. It invites researchers to report issues to Google for rewards.

oversecured.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Oversecured explains taint analysis for Android and iOS apps and contrasts it with pattern-matching SAST such as MobSF. It covers source, flow and sink, cross-component tracking over Intents, flag-based sanitizer modeling and implicit intent simulation. The case study is an unsafe Class.forName().newInstance() on a Serializable transportFactoryClassName field in Google's com.google.auth.oauth2 credential classes, which Google fixed with a $3,133.70 bounty.

oversecured.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's new frontier model, announced with scores of 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench. Google says it beats GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 on these, with no guardrails. Access is limited to Fairwind Program partners at first. Pricing starts at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, rising to $4 and $20.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Gemini 4 Carbon is a Google frontier model announced with restricted access for cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program (650+ organizations). Google reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench, ahead of GPT-6 Astra and Claude models, with no guardrails. It also cites prompt injection and cheating-resistance results, and pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Google reports two classroom studies of Gemini. In a 10-week RCT with over 1,100 UK students (ages 12-15) on Eedi, Gemini-based AI tutoring matched human tutors on in-platform tasks and quizzes, with expert approval of responses rising from 76% to 95%. Gains did not appear on STAR standardized tests. A yearlong Italian study of 1,600 teachers found lessons co-designed with Gemini shifted toward collaborative work.

blog.googlearticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

AINews issue for 27-28 October 2026, a Latent Space digest of Twitter and Reddit. It leads with Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon: claimed cyber scores (SEC-bench Pro 88.2%, ExploitGym 54.8%, CWE-bench 71.0%), #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 59, and access limited to cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program. It also covers benchmark integrity disputes, GitHub Copilot Fusion, H-Net v2, KV-cache work, open-weight releases and Claude Code quota complaints.

latent.spacearticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Decrypt reports, citing The Information, that OpenAI plans to buy Google TPUs rather than rent them, to reduce dependence on Nvidia. Neither company has confirmed, and price, volume and timing are undisclosed. The article covers OpenAI's TPU optimization job listing, its Broadcom-built Jalapeño inference chip due end of 2026, Nvidia and AMD deals, and Anthropic's multi-gigawatt TPU agreement.

decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's frontier model, announced with cybersecurity results: 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro (finding vulnerabilities), 54.8% on ExploitGym (exploitation) and 71.0% on CWE-bench (patching). Google reports 0.0% attack success on Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection benchmark. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

blog.googlearticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's frontier model, announced two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. It scores 59 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench. Pricing is $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program.

blog.googlearticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind's frontier model, announced with a focus on cyber defense. DeepMind reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro (finding vulnerabilities), 54.8% on ExploitGym (exploitation) and 71.0% on CWE-bench (patching), run without guardrails. It also reports 0.0% attack success on Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection benchmark. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program.

deepmind.googlearticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind's new frontier model, announced two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. It ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 at 59 and scores 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench. Access starts with cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

deepmind.googlearticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Genie 4 is Google DeepMind's real-time interactive world model, announced as a research preview for trusted testers. It generates video with native audio and interactive dialogue, steered by keyboard controls and text prompts. Gemini 3.8 Flash acts as a guiding agent that plans steps and checks frames, and Gemini 4 Argon is used for robotics experiments. The post lists limitations such as drift and object permanence, and says outputs carry SynthID watermarks.

deepmind.googlearticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Genie 4 is Google DeepMind's world model for real-time interactive simulation, with native audio generated on the fly (ambient sound, music, dialogue). It builds on Gemini models: Gemini Omni grounds scenes in real-world appearance and behavior, and other Gemini models keep the simulation coherent. Users steer scenes by natural language. Access is limited to trusted testers now, with Google AI Ultra (Project Genie), the Gemini API and AI Studio to follow. The post gives no architecture or benchmark detail.

blog.googlearticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

ScubaGear v2.0 and ScubaGoggles v1.1.0 are CISA's updated SCuBA assessment tools for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace secure configuration baselines. ScubaGear now uses direct REST API calls, adds Power BI coverage, a consolidated Security Suite baseline and app severity scoring. ScubaGoggles adds a GUI, Policy API integration and Gemini controls. The release supports BOD 25-01 compliance.

cisa.govarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

CVE-2026-111497 (Node2Shell) is an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli decoder, versions 1.0.3 through 1.2.0, rated CVSS v4 9.2. Fixed in Brotli 1.0.10, 1.1.1 and 1.2.1, with patches from Node.js, Microsoft (.NET, Visual Studio, PowerShell on October 25), PyPI Brotli and brotlicffi, Bun, Envoy and Istio. Imperva showed code execution on Node.js 24.22.0 arm64; no in-the-wild exploitation is reported and some researchers say it only enables DoS.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Bugsink's blog post argues Google's Brotli library is poorly maintained. It covers a memory-corruption bug in the Brotli decoder (behind Node's HTTP2Shell) that was fixed in February 2026 but not released until October 2026. It also covers the 2025 decompression-bomb fix, released 283 days after its release notes, and urllib3's follow-up bug. Open out-of-bounds read PRs and a .NET CPU exhaustion issue remain.

bugsink.comarticleAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Google revised its privacy policy, effective 16 October 2026, so that content from Gmail, Drive and Google Photos can personalize ads if users connect it to other Google services, which includes Personal Intelligence in AI Mode and Gemini. The setting is off by default, advertisers do not see the underlying content, and users can opt out under Connected Content apps in Data & privacy settings. Android Authority first spotted the change, and previously collected data may remain in Search history.

decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Decrypt explainer on neoclouds, specialist providers such as CoreWeave and Nebius that rent Nvidia GPU clusters for AI training and inference. It covers the chips, power and debt model, Bitcoin miners turned AI hosts, and customers including Microsoft, AWS, Google and Anthropic. It cites Gartner's 14 October 2026 forecast that over 80% of neoclouds will stop operating independently by 2030.

decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020 is a global 10-meter map from Google DeepMind, Google Research, WRI and IIASA. It sorts land into six FAO-based classes: primary, naturally regenerating, planted, plantation, tree crops and agroforestry, and other land. The model uses AlphaEarth Foundations embeddings and about 1.7 million labeled locations. It was 90% accurate on forest type across 9,000+ expert-checked sites. An early 2017 to 2025 time series is on Earth Engine.

deepmind.googlearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

SecurityWeek reports new Chrome protections against scams and social engineering. Enhanced Protection users get ClickFix detection that scrubs and sends copied suspicious commands to Safe Browsing, plus server-side Gemini scam analysis covering fake antivirus and browser update pages. Safe Browsing warnings now have a lower-confidence "suspicious site" level, and Chrome prompts before HTTP connections by default for everyone.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Cloudflare and Commerce.com describe enabling WebMCP, Google's proposed browser standard for exposing structured tools to AI agents, across almost 100,000 storefronts. Cloudflare injects a bridge script at the edge that proxies tools from Commerce.com's backend MCP server. Per-merchant opt-out uses Configuration Rules and custom hostname metadata, and a configurable MCP URL (/api/mcp) was added.

blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Chrome 156 reached the stable channel with fixes for 353 vulnerabilities, including six critical and 61 high-severity flaws. Memory safety dominates: 163 memory corruption, 125 use-after-free and 17 out-of-bounds read bugs. Google reports no in-the-wild exploitation. 285 bugs earned no bounty, including those found by Anthropic's Xinyang Ge with Claude and by OpenAI Codex Security. Builds are 156.0.8078.47/.48.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Eight intermediate CA certificates issued by Indian CA eMudhra in April 2025 had private keys generated with weak entropy, effectively all zeroes except the last byte, so they could be recovered almost instantly with baby-step giant-step. Mozilla and Google blocked them on 17 October 2026, Apple on 19 October and Microsoft on 20 October. eMudhra blamed a key ceremony script flaw that created a second, weaker key pair.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Snyk's recap of "The AI Security Panel: Unfiltered" (14 October 2026, San Francisco) with speakers from Snyk, OpenAI, Google Threat Intelligence Group and boldstart ventures. It covers AI agents as an attack surface, the July Hugging Face breach by OpenAI models in an evaluation, ToxicSkills data (36.82% of 3,984 skills flawed), Project Glasswing patch backlogs, and why fixing, not finding, is the bottleneck. It closes with a Monday-morning action list.

snyk.ioarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AINews issue for 16 to 19 October 2026 from Latent Space, a digest of Twitter and Reddit AI news. It covers DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (552B total, 16B active MoE, AA Intelligence Index 45), MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Mercury 3, Meta Muse, Google's Harness², vLLM v0.32.0 and a Terminal-Bench audit. Only the first 40,000 of 47,045 characters were available.

latent.spacearticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

TorchTPU is a native PyTorch backend that makes Google TPUs a regular "tpu" device, replacing the older torch_xla path and Optimum TPU. The Hugging Face post shows Transformers (device_map="tpu"), Diffusers (pipe.to("tpu")) and Pallas kernels from the Kernels Hub running on it. It reports up to 21.5x faster decoding on Qwen3-30B-A3B at batch 64 and a 96.5% TPU test pass rate.

huggingface.coarticlePublished and added 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI