Arm has announced its new C2-Ultra CPU architecture, the successor to last year's C1-Ultra, which is expected to appear in Samsung Exynos and MediaTek Dimensity chips around 2027, and possibly Google's Tensor G7. Arm claims up to 15% peak performance gains over its predecessor, though most of that comes from a higher 4.45GHz clock speed rather than architectural changes, while power efficiency improves by 38% at equivalent performance thanks to a 2nm process and larger L2 cache.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a database that predicts the molecular effects of every one of the roughly nine billion possible single-letter changes across the human genome. The tool is accessible via a web portal, the Antigravity development platform, and the AlphaGenome interface, and comes bundled with a new Variant Impact Score to help researchers prioritize which mutations are most likely to matter.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-08
Android Authority argues that Samsung's new Galaxy S26 FE, now priced at $700 after a $50 increase, faces stiff competition despite carrying flagship-level performance with some cost-cutting on materials. The outlet points to alternatives including the Google Pixel 11, Pixel 10a, Samsung's own Galaxy S26, the Motorola Edge (2026), and the Nothing Phone 4a Pro as options worth weighing first. A reader poll cited in the piece shows the Galaxy S26 and Motorola Edge drawing the most votes as preferred alternatives.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
Android Authority surveyed nearly 2,200 readers about Google's tougher sideloading measures, which add security checks, a 24-hour delay, and a forced restart before installing apps from outside the Play Store. Roughly 47.5% said the extra friction is always worth it, while another 36.6% said it's worth it for certain apps only, meaning over 80% of respondents remain willing to sideload despite the added steps.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
Google's seven-year software commitment for Pixel phones guarantees OS version updates and security patches, but the company now ships its flashiest features through quarterly Pixel Drops and Android Drops rather than the annual Android release. As a result, older Pixels that technically remain 'supported' are increasingly missing out on the features that actually matter to users, while major Android version updates like Android 17 have grown noticeably thin on new capabilities.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
Google has rolled out Play Services version 26.35, which lets Android users tap their physical transit cards against an NFC-enabled phone to import the card and its balance into Google Wallet. The update also adds a redesigned 'Add a card' success screen and various account management and location-sharing improvements. Separately, Google Play Store version 53.1 introduces a new navigation bar and short feature descriptions in the 'Similar Apps' section.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-08
BleepingComputer will host a live webinar on September 23, 2026, in partnership with Material Security, examining real, documented breaches of Google Workspace caused by forgotten third-party app permissions. Speakers Rajan Kapoor of Material Security and Rick Fitzgerald of Fireside Consulting will walk through case studies and outline which security controls matter most for fast-growing companies with limited resources.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-08
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reports that attackers are moving from simple AI-assisted coding to fully autonomous, multi-agent systems that plan and execute entire attacks with little human input. In one case, a financially motivated actor compromised cloud infrastructure and used an AI coding chatbot with markdown-based agent instructions to build and run a mass credential-harvesting operation in under six hours. Separately, researchers found an exposed command-and-control server running a framework called 'Recon' that autonomously managed reconnaissance and tens of thousands of harvested credentials.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-08
Google's research division ran an experiment rerouting a small subset of Google Maps drivers across 10 U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago, spreading vehicles across more routes instead of funneling them onto the fastest-looking path. The published results, which appeared in Nature Cities, showed average speeds rose about 2% and travel times shortened by 0.7%, with highway-focused rerouting in Los Angeles boosting speeds by as much as 4.6%.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-08
Brave released new benchmark data asserting its desktop browser consumes 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while loading full pages about 20% faster. The company attributes the gains largely to blocking ads, trackers, and analytics scripts that would otherwise generate extra background processing after the visible page content loads.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-08
Weird Gloop migrated the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off Fandom, but instead of giving them their own root domains as it did with other wikis like RuneScape and Minecraft, it launched them as subdomains of weirdgloop.org. The move is a workaround for a Google Search behavior since March 2024 where brand-new domains only get their homepage indexed, effectively hiding every other page from search results for months.
weirdgloop.org
· 2026-09-08
Google DeepMind has launched the AlphaGenome Atlas, a free, non-commercial database that uses its AlphaGenome AI model to predict the biological impact of every possible single-letter change across the human genome—about 9 billion mutations in total. The tool also incorporates predictions for over 100 million short insertions and deletions found in human DNA, and is designed to be accessible without requiring users to write code, unlike the original API-based release.
nature.com
· 2026-09-08
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