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Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements

Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.

feeds.arstechnica.com12 août

Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse

Google Chrome blocks abusive web push notifications with Safe Browsing, FCM rate limiting, and smarter permission controls.

helpnetsecurity.com12 août

Kimwolf v7: An Evolution of the Kimwolf Botnet

Saisie en mars, arrestation en mai : les autorités pensaient avoir cassé le botnet. La version 7 tournait déjà depuis février, avec un carnet d'adresses logé sur Ethereum.

clubic.com11 août

This Is Google Play's First Third-Party App Store

Google Play now officially hosts a third-party app store, the first of likely many to come.

lifehacker.com10 août

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

In the span of three weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all disclosed AI agent sandbox escape events affecting real organizations.

darkreading.com6 août

Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering

Google has fixed the issues, which exploited a trust boundary between two AI agents with different privilege levels to trigger automation that could compromise the supply chain.

darkreading.com6 août

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.

theverge.com5 août

Question about differences between iOS & Android in work environment

old.reddit.com2 août

Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default

Google is preparing a new Chrome security feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or changing the default search engine.

bleepingcomputer.com2 août

Visual screenshots in Google Meet meeting notes will soon be generally available, pre-configure a...

In the coming weeks, we’re starting the rollout of visual screenshots for the ‘Take notes for me’ feature in Google Meet. Visual screenshots automatically capture presented content (such as slides, diagrams, and charts) directly into the generated meeting notes document, ensuring critical visual context is preserved alongside spoken summaries and transcripts. | Learn more.

Google Docs Is Rolling Out These Three New Gemini Features

You can now create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics directly alongside your text using Gemini in Google Docs. These images leverage the context of your document, so you can generate relevant visuals to accompany your writing without ever leaving Docs or relying on external tools. Plus, you can refine your existing visuals and graphics using simple natural language prompts. | Learn more.

Updated options to better view Google Calendar on large monitors

To provide users with more control over their viewing experience, we’re updating information density options for the calendar grid. These updates allow users to customize how calendar events scale on their screens to accommodate various monitor sizes and personal preferences. | Learn more.

Create and import scatter charts with multiple x-series in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports creating and editing scatter charts with multiple independent x-series. This update allows users to map separate data series to their own unique x-axis, rather than forcing all series in a single chart to share the same horizontal axis domain. | Learn more.

Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz

Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes. With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose. | Learn more.

Prevent accidental disclosures with new Reply All BCC warnings in Gmail

To help protect your privacy and ensure intentional communication, we are introducing a new caution notification in Gmail. This feature is designed to prevent accidental information disclosure by alerting users when they are about to "Reply All" to a thread where they were originally BCC’ed. | Learn more. The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Now hear this: Podcasts from Google Cloud

How do you make sure your favorite cereal is always on the shelves when a cyber disaster strikes? In this episode, hosts Tim Peacock and Alicja Cade sit down...

A unified blueprint for passwordless access

With this launch, Google Cloud provides a unified approach for access control across both Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. Organizations can now enforce a standardized, defense-in-depth access strategy across their relational database portfolio. By pairing IAM group authentication with features like VPC Service Controls, Organization Policies, IAM conditions, and Private Service Connect, security teams can help ensure that database access — whether by a human engineer or an autonomous AI agent — is bound