Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google — An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of…
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already being exploited, the sixth such flaw this year. Eight days later the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers…
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the…
WhatsApp bill payments India launched September 3, 2026, giving 500 million users access to 22,722 billers via Bharat Connect. Meta's platform is betting recurring utility bills can build the financial habits its peer-to-peer UPI feature…
Google DeepMind WeatherNext 3 launched September 3, 2026, with hourly satellite forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution. It bypasses the traditional six-hour data lag by ingesting live geostationary satellite data, and adds native turbine…
I feel like I've written this several times in my past few Pixel Pro reviews, but this year in particular, the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly identical to the Pixel 10 Pro.
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commission the only regulator still arguing that a breakup is the fix. A year after its €2.95bn fine, the Commission is still…
The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while…
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs,…
An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more — Today, I'm talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each…