Google is rolling out Gemini Personal Intelligence on Android Auto, letting the Gemini assistant draw on a user's Gmail, Calendar, Photos and other Google services to tailor in-car responses. The feature is opt-in and off by default, and users can choose which apps and services to permit. The article reports no vulnerability, attack or in…
Google announced on 20 October 2026 that it is upgrading the Gemini assistant in vehicles with a Personal Intelligence feature. The feature draws on data from Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, Maps, Google Search history and other connected Google services. It launches today in Android Auto and will reach cars with Google Built-in in the c…
Google announced Universal Cart and the When to Buy Guide, two consumer shopping features ahead of the holiday season. Universal Cart saves products from multiple retailers via AI Mode in Search or the Gemini app. It tracks price drops and restocks using the Shopping Graph (60+ billion product listings). It is built on Google Wallet, inte…
Google announced that anyone with a standard Google account can now build personal Android apps in Google AI Studio by describing them in a prompt. The apps run on the creator's own device, are launched from a private section of Google Play, and are not listed in the public Play Store. The feature extends the existing AI Studio app creato…
A ZDNET consumer how-to article describes how to make Waze the default mapping app on a Google Pixel phone. The author says the August Android update removed the option to choose a default mapping app from the Default apps settings. The article describes no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity, and has no direct defender re…
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Google convened policymakers, critical infrastructure leaders and AI safety experts on Oct. 14 at Singapore International Cyber Week 2026. The tabletop exercise examined security risks from increasingly autonomous AI agents that act at machine speed. Participants concluded that perimeter de…
OpenAI announced an expanded ChatGPT integration for Google Chrome with two workflows. "Chat" reads content from open tabs to inform answers. "Work" controls tabs to send messages, fill out forms, download files, and organize or group tabs. The article presents this as a change that combines browser visibility with delegated actions, rais…
GreyNoise announced an updated integration with Google Security Operations that brings its internet-scanner classification data into the SIEM/SOAR platform. The aim is to separate mass-scanning noise from activity targeting the customer's own environment. GreyNoise says it observes over 800,000 unique IPs daily across 5,000+ sensors in 80…
Apple tightened its App Store developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content. The update also targets apps that pass review as ordinary apps and later turn into nudify apps or surface those features prominently (a bait-and-switch tactic). Apps hosting user-generated content must filter objectiona…
Amazon announced three Android-based Alexa Tablets (Tablet 8 from $230, Tablet 11 from $330, Tablet 12 Pro from $500) built around the Alexa+ AI assistant, with shipping set to start on October 14. They are the first of Amazon's newer tablets to support Google Play in addition to Amazon's own app store. Amazon also launched two Kids Table…
The Browser Company, now owned by Atlassian, announced on 2026-10-22 that it will sunset its Arc browser on December 22, 2026 and direct users to Dia, its AI-first browser. The company cited the rising cost of keeping a browser secure in the age of AI and said its engineering and security teams will focus on Dia. This is product and busin…
Cloudflare and Commerce.com describe enabling WebMCP, an experimental Google browser standard that exposes structured tools (e.g. searchproducts, addtocart) to AI shopping agents, across almost 100,000 Commerce.com storefronts. Cloudflare injects a script at the edge, so merchants do not have to edit their themes. This is product and part…
A Huntress thought-leadership post sets out five priorities for security leaders in 2026: abuse of trusted IT tools, AI-enabled cybercrime, social engineering, multi-extortion ransomware and identity-based attacks including BEC. The article cites internal Huntress telemetry showing RMM abuse rising roughly 277% year over year, with Screen…
GreyNoise announced that a former Head of Global Signals Operations at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), who joined Google through its 2022 acquisition of Mandiant, is its new Senior Vice President of Adversary Operations. This is a personnel and business announcement with no incident, vulnerability or active campaign. The post say…
Microsoft announced changes to its Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium and Pro subscriptions, replacing per-member 1 TB OneDrive allowances with a single shared storage pool and shared AI usage credits. Family and Premium plans drop from up to 6 TB of total storage to 2 TB, and the new Microsoft 365 Pro plan offers 5 TB at about $100 …
Apple announced the HomeView smart home hub on Oct. 13, with preorders open and general availability on Nov. 13. The device combines a touchscreen, smart speaker, Siri AI and a security camera dashboard, and competes with the Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub. This is consumer product news with no vulnerability, incident or threat acti…
Infoblox introduces Agentic Denial of Service (ADoS), a class of disruption in which AI agents overwhelm systems with excessive requests, actions or computations, or in which an adversary turns a defender's own automation against it. It is not "DDoS with AI": it denies the business effective use of its AI agents, the infrastructure they d…
Volexity published Part 3 of its "Mind the (Patch) Gap" series. It shows how Volexity Volcano and Surge Collect Pro were used to analyze a VM compromised with the zero-day exploit chain and payloads used by UTA0560 (Chrome and Windows zero-days, described in Part 1). The post is mainly product and workflow documentation rather than new in…
General Motors announced an in-house OnStar AI Assistant that will debut in the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq EV, followed by a new OnStar mobile app in 2027. The app will replace the OnStar Guardian app and the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brand apps. The announcement came at the GM Forward event and was reported by TechCrunch. It follows a …
A vendor-contributed article by Pentera argues that the hard engineering in AI-driven pentesting lies in the "harness" around the model, not in the model that writes the attacks. It cites the Hugging Face intrusion that OpenAI disclosed in July, which occurred inside an OpenAI evaluation meant to contain the agents, as an example of a har…