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Artificial intelligence

Microsoft Launches Frontier Company with $2.5 Billion Investment to Expand AI Engineering

Microsoft announced the establishment of Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating unit focused on helping customers implement AI-driven transformations, with a $2.5 billion investment and the involvement of 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The initiative focuses on delivering measurable business outcomes while protecting customers’ data and intellectual property.

2026-07-02

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Microsoft Reduces Water Usage Intensity in Its Data Centers by Nearly 90% Since the Early 2000s

Microsoft said that the average water usage efficiency of its data centers declined from 2.3 to 0.27 liters per kilowatt-hour in 2025, while reaching the point of replenishing more water globally than it withdrew during fiscal year 2025. The company combines low- or zero-water-consumption cooling technologies, reuse, and investment in local infrastructure.

2026-06-24

Technologies

Microsoft Makes Azure Copilot Observability Agent Generally Available for Managing Agentic Cloud Environments

Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Copilot Observability Agent, built on Azure Monitor, to connect logs, metrics, traces, system topology, and operational context across different environments. The company says the tool helps operations teams move more quickly from detecting failures to understanding their causes and addressing them, while supporting a more agent-driven and governed operating cycle.

2026-06-23

Technology Companies

Apple introduces Siri AI as a more capable personal assistant powered by Apple Intelligence

Apple has unveiled an entirely new version of Siri called Siri AI, with personal context understanding, broad world knowledge, and awareness of what appears on the screen. The features will be available for developer testing starting June 8, 2026, and will reach users as a beta later in the year.

2026-06-08

Cybersecurity

Google: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Are Emerging on the Web but Remain Limited in Sophistication

A survey conducted by Google’s threat intelligence teams of public web content shows that various actors have begun experimenting with indirect prompt injection to target artificial intelligence systems, with the malicious category increasing by 32% between November 2025 and February 2026. Despite the limited sophistication of the observed attacks, Google expects their volume and complexity to grow as artificial intelligence systems become more capable and the cost of carrying out attacks declines.

2026-04-23

Cybersecurity

Google Integrates Rust into the Pixel 10 Modem to Strengthen the Security of the Cellular Connectivity Stack

Google announced that the Pixel 10 series will be the first Pixel devices to integrate the memory-safe Rust language into cellular modem software by replacing the DNS resolver with a component written in Rust. The company says the move reduces an entire class of memory-safety vulnerability risks, although the component adds approximately 371 kilobytes to the software image.

2026-04-10

Cybersecurity

Google Makes Device-Bound Session Credentials Available to Chrome Users on Windows

Google has announced the public availability of Device Bound Session Credentials on Chrome 146 for Windows users, with plans to expand the technology to macOS in a future release. The technology links login sessions to encryption keys stored in the device’s hardware, making stolen cookies unusable.

2026-04-09

Cybersecurity

How Google Continuously Addresses Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks in Workspace

Google explains its ongoing methodology for combating indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI applications that use multiple data sources, such as Workspace with Gemini. The methodology relies on detecting and classifying attacks, generating synthetic data, then updating deterministic defenses, machine-learning models, LLMs, and the Gemini model itself.

2026-04-02

Cybersecurity

Google Pays More Than $17 Million to Vulnerability Researchers During 2025

Google announced that its Vulnerability Reward Program paid more than $17 million to more than 700 security researchers worldwide in 2025, an increase of over 40% from the previous year. The program launched a dedicated artificial intelligence track and expanded Chrome rewards, as well as a new program for the OSV-SCALIBR tool, alongside security research events that generated hundreds of reports.

2026-03-31

Cybersecurity

Google Begins Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography in Android 17

Google plans to introduce post-quantum cryptography improvements to Android 17, beginning with the next beta release and followed by the general production release. The changes include Android Verified Boot, Remote Attestation, Android Keystore, and Google Play app signing, with support for the ML-DSA algorithm and hybrid signatures.

2026-03-25

Cybersecurity

Chrome Develops a New HTTPS Certificate Architecture to Resist Quantum Computing

Google has announced a Chrome program to develop HTTPS certificates resistant to quantum computers, based on Merkle Tree Certificates, with a phased rollout plan that begins with live trials in collaboration with Cloudflare and concludes with the creation of a dedicated root store.

2026-02-27

Cybersecurity

Google Prevents Publication of 1.75 Million Policy-Violating Apps and Bans More Than 80,000 Developer Accounts in 2025

Google revealed the results of its Google Play and Android safety ecosystem in 2025, noting that it prevented the publication of more than 1.75 million policy-violating apps and banned more than 80,000 malicious developer accounts. Google Play Protect also expanded its protection against malware and fraud to 185 markets and more than 2.8 billion Android devices.

2026-02-19

Cybersecurity

HTTPS Certificate Industry Moves to Eliminate 11 Less Secure Domain-Ownership Verification Methods

Chrome’s Root Program and the CA/Browser Forum have adopted new requirements to gradually phase out 11 outdated methods for verifying control of a domain when issuing HTTPS certificates. The process will take place in stages, with its full security value expected by March 2028, while pushing website owners toward automated methods that can be cryptographically verified.

2025-12-10

Cybersecurity

How Google Is Building Security Layers for Agentic Browsing Capabilities in Chrome

Google explains a multilayered security architecture to protect Gemini’s agentic capabilities in Chrome from indirect prompt injection, data leakage, and unwanted action execution. The architecture includes an independent model for reviewing whether actions align with the user’s goal, sets that restrict the assets the agent is allowed to read or modify, as well as user confirmations and continuous testing.

2025-12-08

Cybersecurity

Google Enables File Sharing Between Quick Share and AirDrop with Rust Adoption to Enhance Security

Google has announced Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop, enabling two-way file sharing between Android and iOS devices, beginning with the Pixel 10 family. The company says the feature uses a direct device-to-device communication channel and relies on Rust, internal testing, and an independent evaluation by NetSPI.

2025-11-20

Cybersecurity

How Google Says Android Protects Users from Phone Scams

Google showcased AI-powered protection layers in Android against fraudulent calls and messages, noting that it blocks more than 10 billion suspected malicious attempts each month. It also presented survey results and two independent evaluations comparing Android’s protection with iPhones, while noting that some evaluations and features may not be available in all countries.

2025-10-30

Cybersecurity

Chrome will enable secure connections by default and warn about HTTP sites in 2026

Google plans to enable the “Always use secure connections” setting by default in Chrome 154 in October 2026, so that the browser requests user permission before the first visit to any public site that does not use HTTPS. In April 2026, the company will begin rolling out the setting to Enhanced Safe Browsing users, numbering more than one billion, before extending it to all users.

2025-10-28

Cybersecurity

Google Reveals Phoenix Attacks to Bypass Rowhammer Defenses in DDR5 Memory

Research supported by Google in collaboration with ETH Zurich has shown that customized attack patterns can bypass enhanced TRR defenses in some DDR5 modules, enabling the first privilege-escalation exploit via Rowhammer on a production desktop system equipped with DDR5 memory. The company continues to work on testing platforms and the PRAC standard to strengthen DRAM ecosystem protections.

2025-09-15