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Google has begun rolling out a "Notify when left behind" feature for item trackers within its Find Hub Android app, according to 9to5Google. Users can enable the toggle per-tag in settings, and the app automatically excludes the Home address saved in a user's Google Account from triggering alerts. The feature is currently live for item trackers in the US and Europe but not yet for devices like headphones.
Google confirmed via its official Nest Community account that a daylight saving time bug affecting timers and alarms on smart home devices has been fixed. The issue surfaced after the November 1 clock change, causing devices in Canadian regions with permanent daylight saving time to display incorrect times, including Lenovo Smart Clock and Clock Essential units running an hour behind despite Google Assistant showing the correct time.
Kugelblitz is a new Mac application that renders Earth as a navigable 3D globe and atlas, layering satellite imagery, road maps and topographic data onto real terrain. It draws on freely available open geodata, including OpenStreetMap served via a dedicated Kugelblitz tile server, and runs without requiring a user account.
Google rolled out its November update for Googlebook OS, announced via Reddit and its Help Center, bundling 30 fixes alongside the November 2026 security patch. The update reduces RAM usage from on-device AI, freeing 3GB to 6GB of memory, and addresses issues including USB microphones not working, DRM video showing a black screen on monitors, and bootloops triggered by interrupted updates.
Google announced on Nov. 3 that AI tools integrated into its Search product will be turned off by default for K-12 students starting next year, requiring teachers or administrators to manually enable them. Google education VP Chris Phillips said that because search and AI are tightly linked, schools that block the AI tools will also lose access to Search entirely for students, triggering a notification explaining the restriction. In response, CNET highlighted several free alternative search engines, including Brave and DuckDuckGo, that parents and educators could use instead.
An advocate general at the EU's top court said Google's Gemini chatbot may breach press publishers' rights when it reproduces recognizable portions of articles or bypasses paywalls to generate answers. The opinion, issued in a case brought by Hungarian site Like Company, found no evidence Google used the publisher's content to train Gemini, and noted that using copyrighted text for AI training is permitted under the EU's text-and-data-mining exception. The Court of Justice of the European Union is expected to rule in coming months, typically following its advisers' guidance.
Google is trialing a new tab strip in Chrome Canary that lets users scroll horizontally through open tabs using a mouse wheel or dedicated arrow buttons, while pinned tabs stay fixed to the left. The feature is enabled via an experimental flag and has no confirmed stable release date.
Reddit announced it is testing a new ad format that places ads directly in search results, targeting a limited group of advertisers initially. The ads will be shown based on contextual relevance, such as surfacing coffee-related product ads for searches like "espresso station." Reddit said it will evaluate user response before expanding the format further.
Apple released Xcode 27.3 beta 1, which adds GitHub Copilot as a supported AI model within the app's built-in coding assistant. This follows earlier integrations of ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Claude Agent, and Google Gemini across recent Xcode versions. The beta also ships with Swift 6.4 and SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and visionOS 27.3.
Google has told schools that administrators who want to disable Gemini AI features will also lose access to Google Search within its education accounts. The company frames the move as giving schools greater control over how AI appears in their systems, but the opt-out is bundled with search functionality rather than offered separately.
Google announced that starting next year, AI features like Gemini and Gemini Notebook will be turned off by default for K-12 student accounts, requiring school administrators to manually enable them. However, schools that choose to keep AI disabled will also lose access to Google Search for those student accounts, since the company says the two are deeply integrated.
Google has turned off its Gemini chatbot and certain AI-powered Google Search features by default for student accounts managed through its education platform. The change follows a Wall Street Journal investigation examining how Google rolled out AI tools in schools and raised concerns about their effects on children.