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Google is Alphabet's technology subsidiary, running Search, Android, YouTube, Cloud, and the Gemini/Gemma AI models alongside Pixel hardware.
Roots, Sampling, Logging and Dynamic Client Registration become eligible for removal from MCP on July 28, 2027, a DEV Community post says. No removal can ship before the first revision released on or after that date, so server owners have time to find out what they depend on.
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YouTube's GIF replies in comments are reaching only a small number of viewers, with the rollout confirmed on October 13. Viewers on Reddit are already holding back app updates to avoid them, and creators are asking for a channel-level off switch.
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Mozilla announced Firefox Enterprise on October 12 without a price for its self-hosted management console. A DEV Community review says its AI lockdown already works in free Firefox through the AIControls policy.
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Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US, one cart in Gemini and AI Mode for products from multiple retailers. ZDNet reports it runs on more than 60 billion Shopping Graph listings.
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Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Citizen Lab said Discover-Tech's ads delivered zero-click Candiru attacks to at least 45 Al Jazeera devices. Google and IAB Europe have delisted the vendor, but Citizen Lab cannot yet attribute the attacks to any party.
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Citizen Lab says ads from Israeli firm DiscoverTech delivered no-click spyware to at least 45 Al Jazeera devices in 2024 and 2025. Wired reports that, by Citizen Lab's account, individuals can do little beyond blocking ads as thoroughly as possible.
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A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in platform design on March 25, 2026, and awarded one plaintiff $6 million in damages. The case reached the jury because the trial judge declined to dismiss it under Section 230, and an appeals court has yet to review that call.
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Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl denied Meta and Google a new trial on June 9, 2026, after a Los Angeles jury's March 25, 2026 verdict awarded the plaintiff $6 million. The verdict, the first by a jury in a social media addiction claim, is expected to influence roughly 2,000 consolidated California cases.
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Cisco Talos tracks UAT-11985, an APT sending Taiwan research affiliates fake event invites that lead to a Google login proxy capturing MFA codes. The proxy relays entries to Google in real time, so a code typed into the fake page reaches the attacker first.
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Google will roll out an opt-in Android Messages setting in the coming weeks that has Gemini assess the intent of unknown senders. It adds a cloud check on top of existing on-device detection, so the new layer reaches only people who switch it on.
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Google's free AI Pro trials omit Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity and YouTube Premium Lite that $19.99-a-month subscribers get, 9to5Google reports. Trials bundled with Pixel, Chromebook and Galaxy purchases are affected, so a buyer can spend months testing a narrower product than the one they would pay for.
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Britain's CMA proposed on 16 October to give Microsoft strategic market status in business software, with a final decision due by 13 February 2027. It would let the regulator write conduct rules in advance instead of enforcing case by case.
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Firma Power, a startup that raised about $1.4 million in seed funding, says data centers turn to gas because clean power is scattered across projects. The cost and speed claims are the company's own, so a buyer should test them on one real site.
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KBRA assigned Anthropic a BB+ credit rating, one notch below investment grade, as the company plans more than $500 billion of infrastructure spending. Crypto Briefing puts the financing at $35 billion in one article and $60 billion in another.
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Google's Search Console AI report breaks impressions out by page, country, device and date but counts AI Overviews and AI Mode as one. Teams can see where pages appear in AI answers but cannot isolate the traffic effect, a DEV Community walkthrough says.
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Investors are tempering the premium they would pay for an Anthropic IPO, according to people familiar with the discussions cited by Reuters. CEO Today, relaying the report, says the cooling reflects scrutiny of valuation assumptions across the AI sector and does not necessarily mean weaker enthusiasm for Anthropic.
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Google will show inline links higher in AI Mode and AI Overviews, its Oct 15 blog post says, without giving a figure for added clicks. Sites cited in those answers can win a better position, but nothing in the sources shows what that position earns in clicks.
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Google will cut Pro model access from its $4.99 AI Plus plan on November 13, leaving Flash and Flash-Lite. Keeping Pro means moving to AI Pro or above; at the $19.99 tier 9to5Google lists, that is $15 more a month per person.
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Reach, owner of the Daily Express, has agreed a paid AI content deal with Google and says it has sent OpenAI a cease-and-desist letter. Reach counts well over 100 million successful scrapes in six months; the Google fee is undisclosed.
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