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Rust in Android Cuts Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% While Speeding Development
Google's 2025 Android security data shows memory safety vulnerabilities have dropped below 20% of total vulnerabilities, while Rust code demonstrates a 4x…
Android Expands In-Call Scam Protection to US Banks and Fintechs
Google is rolling out its Android in-call scam protection pilot to the United States, partnering with major financial institutions to warn users…
Chrome’s Layered Defense Against Prompt Injection in Agentic Browsing
Google's Chrome security team has detailed a multi-layer architecture to protect users from indirect prompt injection and data exfiltration as Gemini-powered agentic…
Google and Arm Reduce Mali GPU Attack Surface via SELinux Hardening
Google's Android Security team has partnered with Arm to restrict access to debug and deprecated GPU IOCTLs on Mali-based Android devices, targeting…
HTTPS Ecosystem Retires 11 Legacy Domain Validation Methods by 2028
The CA/Browser Forum and Chrome Root Program are phasing out email, phone, and reverse-lookup domain validation methods in favor of automated, cryptographically…
Google Project Zero Chains Pixel 9 Sandbox Escape via BigWave Kernel Driver
A Project Zero researcher found three bugs in the Pixel 9's BigWave AV1 hardware driver, one of which enables a full mediacodec…
Google Project Zero Found Nine Bypasses in Windows Administrator Protection
A Google Project Zero researcher identified nine separate vulnerabilities in Windows 11's new Administrator Protection feature before its release, all of which…
Project Zero Digs Into GetProcessHandleFromHwnd: Bugs, History, and Inaccurate Docs
A Google Project Zero researcher traces the evolution of a little-known Windows API across Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 10, exposing documentation…
Google DeepMind Proposes Cognitive Framework for Measuring AGI Progress
A new taxonomy from Google DeepMind identifies 10 cognitive abilities as benchmarks for general AI, backed by a $200,000 Kaggle hackathon to…
Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, Targeting Agentic AI Workloads
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.5 Flash, a model designed for long-horizon agentic tasks and complex coding workflows, claiming benchmark leads over…
Google DeepMind Releases Toolkit to Measure AI Manipulation Capabilities
DeepMind has published the first empirically validated framework for measuring harmful AI manipulation, drawing on nine studies with over 10,000 participants across…
Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with SynthID Watermarking
Google's latest real-time audio model brings lower latency, stronger reasoning benchmarks, and mandatory SynthID watermarking on all generated audio to curb AI-driven…