Security

Android 16 Upgrade Report Card: Upgrade winter

Google's latest major Android release landed in an unusual season, but the chill around its arrival feels eerily familiar.

Gemini for Chrome gets a second AI agent to watch over it

Google acknowledged the prompt injection risks in its browsing assistant, deploying a ‘user alignment critic’ to vet its actions

Keep AI browsers out of your enterprise, warns Gartner

They’re already in use but may lead to “irreversible and untraceable” data loss, analysts said.

Mac identity management gets a boost, but IT still faces gaps

Updates to Apple’s identity management tools have the potential to deliver a better authentication experience for Mac users in the enterprise — but we’re not out of the woods yet. Here’s how IT teams can cope.

Kazakhstan’s AI-Powered Prisons: Setting a New Standard for Safety and Efficiency

India withdraws demand for forced installation of government app

Installation is now voluntary.

Proton adds encrypted spreadsheets to its expanding productivity suite

Proton Sheets offers an alternative to businesses worried that data held in Excel and Google Docs will be used to train AI models, the company said.

22 pro Android security settings you shouldn’t overlook

Some of the most important Android security settings are also the most buried — and they're well worth your while to uncover.

Get poetic in prompts and AI will break its guardrails

25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models yielded high attack success rates when prompted in verse, indicating a deeper, underlying problems in their ability to process ambiguity veiled in poetry.

Newly discovered malicious extensions could be lurking in enterprise browsers

Once-trusted Chrome and Edge add-ons have quietly turned into tools for data harvesting, search manipulation, and a remote-execution backdoor affecting more than 4.3 million users.