An anonymous reader shares a report on The Verge: Google says that a small number of Pixel phones have broken microphones that need to be sent back for replacement. The issue is seemingly not that widespread. Google claims the issue…

Third-party patching of vulnerabilities includes another group patching a Microsoft flaw – and provides a glimpse into a new way of dealing with flaws

Infected apps are probably themselves victims of malware, say Sophos Labs researchers

It’s not the first time Google’s own services have been used to trick the bot challenges – although a new version of reCAPTCHA coming soon should remove the annoyance of having to prove you’re not a robot

Google has handed over its end-to-end email encryption project to the open-source community – but will the community pick it up?

Matthew Miller, writing for ZDNet: Google has announced that Google Assistant is coming to smartphones running Android 7.0 Nougat and Android 6.0 Marshmallow, starting this week. The Google Assistant will begin rolling out this week to English users in the…

Remember how experts have been saying, “Drop SHA-1” for years and years? Now they’re saying, “Told you so.”

Google today launched a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify and swiftly remove abusive comments on their websites. The technology, called Perspective, will review comments and score them based on how similar they are to comments…

Google’s move is the latest in a round of spats with Microsoft over its Project Zero initiative to nudge vendors into fixing flaws

BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Today, Google unveiled yet another way to share files. Called “Upspin,” the open source project aims to make sharing easier for home users. With that said, the project does not seem particularly easy to…