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Discord shipped an update that renders uploaded .md files with proper formatting, including tables, rather than showing raw symbols. The same release adds a 'Move to...' option for organizing servers and channels via right-click, and raises the file upload limit for Nitro subscribers to 1GB.
Apple's debut folding phone goes on sale in stores this Friday, offering iPhone users a flexible display that expands from pocket size to a larger screen. The company has not yet published care instructions for the device, though some preorder customers have reported shipping delays pushing into January.
A CNET reporter tested Google's newly released Gemini 3 Pro model by asking it to build an application for designing 3D-printable objects. Within about 18 hours of conversation-based iteration, the AI produced a working app that let him generate and refine cosplay armor pieces like greaves, pauldrons and vambraces, which he then printed himself.
Trump recounted a conversation with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in which he considered relabeling the Atlantic Ocean after America or himself, following Google's earlier renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Google Maps. Trump said Pichai pushed back, noting oceans border far too many countries for such a change, so Trump said he would drop the idea.
Google has struck a deal described as the largest virtual power plant agreement by a hyperscaler, aggregating flexible demand and distributed resources rather than building new generation capacity. The arrangement is intended to supply the equivalent of about a gigawatt of power to support its data center growth.
Greenlight has introduced a proprietary voice assistant on its Family Hub, a digital wall calendar device that syncs with Google, iCalendar and Outlook calendars. The feature sits behind the product's $10-a-month membership, alongside existing tools like meal planning, chore tracking, financial management for teens, and family location tracking via the Greenlight app or a separate GPS tracker.
Google and Meta jointly released a PyTorch-native version of the SGLang inference engine, called TorchTPU, letting Google's tensor processing units serve AI workloads without requiring a switch to Google's JAX framework. Meta's PyTorch-TPU lead Zongwei Zhou said the engine is already running in production at Meta, built with help from RadixArk, the startup founded by SGLang's creators. A matching PyTorch-native version of the vLLM inference engine was also released as open source.
Code found within Google's apps points to an in-development feature called 'Connected accounts,' which would let users share Google One storage and AI benefits with other accounts without setting up a formal family group. The feature appears to still be under development and has not been officially announced by Google.
Anthropic has released Claude for Google Workspace in public beta for all paid Claude plans, letting users access Claude from a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The company also launched new connectors that let Claude create and edit Google files directly from within Claude itself, covering tasks like editing text, building spreadsheet formulas and charts, and generating slides matching a deck's theme.
Security researchers identified two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the widely used web programming language, that could let attackers remotely execute malicious code on servers. Google, OpenAI and Amazon have been involved in efforts to detect exploitation attempts and help secure affected systems, while the US NSA and FBI issued warnings urging organizations to patch or take vulnerable systems offline.
A ZDNET writer discovered that after Google's August Android update, Pixel phones no longer offer a straightforward way to set a third-party app like Waze as the default mapping tool. The workaround involves disabling Google Maps first through the phone's Apps settings before Waze can take over as default for links and other apps that open map locations.
Google announced new Chrome features that warn users when they land on suspicious or dangerous websites, available through the browser's Enhanced Protection mode. The update targets fake antivirus and browser-update scams with a likelihood score, and counters 'ClickFix' attacks by clearing the clipboard and showing a warning when a site tries to trick users into pasting malicious code.