Google's November Pixel Drop brings new and expanded features meant to make Pixel devices more personalized, intuitive, and handy. The update covers smarter automation, next-level personalization, and upgraded connectivity. Its headline addition is Gemini Intelligence on Pixel 10 devices, along with a way to create personalized widgets. Updates start rolling out today and continue over the next several weeks.
Gemini Intelligence arrives on Pixel 10
Gemini Intelligence is now available on Pixel 10 devices. It brings Rambler, personalized suggestions, and the ability to take care of...
Muse is introducing spaces, an interactive way to build a more personalized Muse. A space is a custom experience you create inside Muse by describing your idea, like a holiday gift tracker, a daily word game, or a planning board for your next DIY project. It's shaped around your routines, goals, and interests, and can be as practical or entertaining as you want. Every space you create becomes part of Muse, so you can keep it where you want and come back to it any time.
From an Idea to Something Real
Have an idea you've been meaning to try? Tell Muse about it, and it builds it for you. Your...
Microsoft Edge now automatically disables website notifications from a site when Microsoft Defender SmartScreen or Scareware blocker detects that the site pushed a scam. It also adds a “Block and report” option to notification permission prompts. The goal is to stop scammers from turning a useful browser feature into a persistent channel for fake virus warnings and security alerts. Microsoft says Edge has been fighting notification spam for years, with multiple workstreams detecting and blocking it by the billions.
The problem: one “Allow” can become a persistent...
Google is expanding Expert Intelligence, its cross-Google initiative for working with trusted sources through Google AI products, so students can add course materials to Gemini Notebook. Last month Google introduced the initiative, and users could already add eligible ebooks purchased from Google Play Books. Now students can add hundreds of textbooks at no charge.
The catalog includes textbooks from providers in the U.S. and India, including OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S Chand Publishing. Once a textbook is added, every answer is grounded directly in that textbook, with inline...
Connected Apps in Search and the Gemini app have already made everyday tasks like ordering groceries and making playlists faster. Google is now launching the preview of its Connected Apps Platform, a unified way for more app developers to bring their capabilities directly into Gemini and Search. Google is also rolling out a new set of Connected Apps partners.
Manage Connected Apps with ease
The Connected Apps Platform lets developers build once and reach high-intent users across both Search and the Gemini app. Developers integrate with a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android MCP using the...
Bing is redesigning image search to help people move from scrolling to understanding. The new opt-in experience replaces the dense grid of default results with AI-labeled categories, short group summaries, and sources, so users can see how images relate to one another and decide where to look next.
Image search has been hard to use for exploration. Results often arrive as endless grids with repeated images, minimal context, and little guidance on where to start. Bing says the new version addresses this by organizing results rather than adding more to look at.
Behind the scenes, AI...
Meta is rolling out new tools in Forum, its dedicated app for people who want to go deeper on Facebook Groups, to help admins manage and grow their communities. Running a group takes real work: reviewing posts, answering questions, keeping conversations on track, and planning what comes next. Meta says features like admin AI and Admin Assist take on more of that busywork so admins have more time for building and nurturing their communities.
Smarter Moderation With Admin AI and Admin Assist
Admin AI is a group management tool built into Forum that helps admins triage pending items, such as...
PyTorch 2.15 brings large speedups and new capabilities to Apple silicon Macs. The release is from the PyTorch team at Hugging Face, which works on the MPS backend to make the Mac a first-class place to run and train PyTorch models. At the start of 2026, running even small models on MPS often meant working around unsupported operations, performance cliffs and unexpected memory growth. The team runs real models from the Hugging Face Hub across language, image and video, finds where MPS falls short, and fixes it upstream in PyTorch, increasingly by replacing MPSGraph with dedicated Metal...
Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI, and Quarkslab disclosed two PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known as php2shell. They affect all web servers running PHP 5.4 or later and may allow denial of service, remote code execution, and data exposure when an application processes specially crafted HTTP traffic. Cloudflare deployed web application firewall (WAF) protections in early October 2026, about 9 hours before public disclosure. Starting October 21 at 3:02 am UTC, customers using the free or paid WAF were protected by default.
Cloudflare is part of a coordinated effort with the...
