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Get ready for Google I/O May 19-20
Posted by The Google I/O Team Google I/O returns May 19–20 Google I/O is back! Join us online as we share our latest AI breakthroughs and updates in products across the company, from Gemini to Read more…
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Most VMware users still “actively reducing their VMware footprint,” survey finds
More than two years after Broadcom took over VMware, the virtualization company’s customers are still grappling with higher prices, uncertainty, and the challenges of reducing vendor lock-in. Today, CloudBolt Software released a report, “The Mass Read more…
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Under the hood: Android 17’s lock-free MessageQueue
Posted by Shai Barack, Android Platform Performance Lead and Charles Munger, Principal Software Engineer In Android 17, apps targeting SDK 37 or higher will receive a new implementation of MessageQueue where the implementation is lock-free. Read more…
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Prepare your app for the resizability and orientation changes in Android 17
Posted by Miguel Montemayor, Developer Relations Engineer, Android With the release of Android 16 in 2025, we shared our vision for a device ecosystem where apps adapt seamlessly to any screen—whether it’s a phone, foldable, Read more…
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The First Beta of Android 17
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Today we’re releasing the first beta of Android 17, continuing our work to build a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and refined performance. This build continues Read more…
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
On Thursday, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, deploying the new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras. The model delivers code at more than 1,000 tokens (chunks of Read more…
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various Read more…
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Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist
Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a two-month span leading up to Read more…
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path
On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began testing advertisements inside ChatGPT. Hitzig, Read more…
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Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name
Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has retracted this Read more…