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A woman rests her wrist on her knee while wearing the Google Fitbit Edge, a slim capsule-shaped tracker with a green woven band.

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Google's Fitbit Edge brings back the screen and a replaceable battery

Google announced the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 tracker with a bright display, GPS and a battery you can swap. It reaches stores on October 27.

October 12, 2026

Google opens its SynthID Detector so anyone can check if media is AI-made

Anyone can now upload an image, video or audio clip to Google's SynthID Detector to see whether it carries a watermark from Google or its partners, including OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao.

October 8, 2026

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Hackers hijacked three country domains to get fake Google certificates

Attackers took over the .gh, .sl and .as registries, rewrote DNS records and got real certificate authorities to issue HTTPS certificates for Google and other big brands. Chrome has blocked the ones Google found.

October 6, 2026

Google launches Nano Banana 2.1, a better image model at half the price

Google's new Flash image model improves text, editing and character consistency, and cuts the developer price per 1K image from 6.7 to 3.36 cents.

October 6, 2026

Steam rising from the two cooling towers of the Limerick Generating Station nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, seen across a parking lot

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Google signs a deal to squeeze 890 MW more out of Constellation's nuclear plants

Google will be the anchor customer for upgrades at six existing nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, adding power to the grid by 2032. Constellation will also use Google's Gemini Enterprise to run the work.

October 6, 2026

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A researcher found the same AI agent flaw at Google, Rapid7 and more. He calls it 'protocol pivoting'

Security researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin showed how one AI agent can pass malicious instructions to others that blindly trust it, exposing a weak spot in how agents talk over MCP.

October 5, 2026

TechnologyOctober 5, 2026
Google says some Android apps need extra work to run well on Intel Googlebooks
Days after Googlebooks went on sale, Google admitted a small number of complex apps and games need developer tuning on the three Intel models. The Arm-based Dell and HP run Android natively.
RobotsOctober 5, 2026
Wing and Walmart will fly drone deliveries to Denver and Seattle in 2027
The two new metros push the partnership to nearly 20 US markets as Wing works toward drone delivery from more than 270 Walmart stores and 40 million customers.
AIOctober 5, 2026
Google pauses its open-source bug bounty after a flood of AI-generated reports
Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program, saying most of a surge of automated submissions weren't valid.
AIOctober 1, 2026
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over Google's AI Overviews
Chegg and Rolling Stone publisher Penske Media said Google forced them to feed AI Overviews for free. Judge Amit Mehta ruled their antitrust claims don't hold up.
AIOctober 1, 2026
Google's Guided Vision lets Gemini Live describe the world for blind and low-vision users
Point your Android phone's camera at something and Gemini describes it out loud, then tells you how to move the camera if it can't see well. Google built it with the blind and low-vision community.
AIOctober 1, 2026
A startup wants satellites to think for themselves instead of waiting for instructions from Earth
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raised $8 million to build software that lets AI models run directly on satellites, cutting the need to send every decision back down to ground control.

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