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The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025
Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, it was full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models to new features in Search and Gmail. But there were some surprises, too, like a new AI filmmaking app and an update to Project Starline. If you didn’t catch the event live,…
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Google Now Has a $250/month ‘Ultra’ Subscription
Google has announced its newest subscription plan called Google AI Ultra. This is the new highest tier for the Google AI service that gives users access to all of Google’s AI models and features, much like OpenAI’s newest plan. The plan costs $249.99 per month, with a 50% discount for the first three months. You can subscribe on the official…
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Google Releases Jules Coding Agent to Take on OpenAI Codex
At the I/O 2025 event, Google released its Jules coding agent to all users worldwide. Jules is an autonomous coding agent that can read your codebase, understand your intent, and perform actions to get things done. It’s an asynchronous coding agent that connects to your existing repository and clones the codebase into a secure Google Cloud virtual machine (VM). It…
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How to manage your bookmarks in Google Chrome
There’s a lot to look at, watch, and listen to on the web. Fully utilizing the bookmarks feature in Google Chrome can be a real help in staying on top of everything. Chrome is the browser I use most often, and I’ve got a huge number of bookmarked sites inside it: long reads I want to get back to once…
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Google I/O 2025: how to watch and what to expect
Google’s annual I/O developer conference is almost here, and all eyes will be on the company’s opening keynote. But for the first time in years, we know there’s little reason to hope for major Android OS announcements, since Google already did that last week. Instead, we’re expecting I/O’s keynote to be (almost) all about AI, though we do know there’ll…
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After Switching to Linux, This App Helped Me Drop Google for Good
Tired of Google’s grip on your data? After switching to Linux, I found the perfect self-hosted app to replace Google Drive, Photos, Calendar, Docs, and more, all on my terms. Here’s how I took back control of my privacy and my data. When I first made the jump to Linux, I felt like I’d taken a huge step toward digital…
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Google I/O 2025 will be an AI show
Android is getting its biggest visual update in years, and rather than unveiling it for the first time at its big annual developer conference, Google announced Material Three Expressive at a pre-show event broadcast on YouTube the week before. If a major design language shift for the world’s most popular mobile OS doesn’t qualify as a headliner at I/O, then…
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Google patches Chrome vulnerability used for account takeover and MFA bypass
“Unlike other browsers, Chrome resolves the Link header on subresource requests. But what’s the problem? The issue is that the Link header can set a referrer-policy. We can specify unsafe-url and capture the full query parameters,” he wrote. Link headers are used by websites to tell a browser about important page resources, for example, images, that it should preload. As…
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Google fixes high severity Chrome flaw with public exploit
Google has released emergency security updates to patch a high-severity vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that could lead to full account takeover following successful exploitation. While it’s unclear if this security flaw has been used in attacks, the company warned that it has a public exploit, which is how it usually hints at active exploitation. “Google is aware of…
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Google Chrome to block admin-level browser launches for better security
Google is rolling out a change to Chromium that “de-elevates” Google Chrome so it does not run as an administrator to increase security in Windows. Microsoft previously introduced a similar feature in 2019 to the Edge Browser. When users launched Edge with elevated permissions, a warning would appear, recommending that they relaunch the browser without administrative rights. Later, Microsoft modified the…
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