Weekly Issue: 2023-48

As they have only a few times before, the excellent Pixel Buds Pro have dropped to an all-time low price of just $119.99 – a full $80 off the standard MSRP.

I remember a time when reviewing Chromebooks meant getting my hands on a few devices every few months.

For this episode of The Chrome Cast, we’re sticking with our new format of sticking to a single topic. And this time around, we’ve decided to work through our “Best Chromebooks” list for the end of the year live on the podcast.

The Dev channel has been updated to 121.0.6156.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

VMware Inc. is boosting support for one of the latest bare-metal instances on the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform.

Yesterday, Call of Duty: Warzone finally landed on GeForce NOW and you can play on your Chromebook.

Let’s dive into what’s new in DevTools for Chrome 119-120. Chapters: 0:00 – Introduction 0:12 Prepare for 3rd party cookies phaseout 1:09 Load CSS source maps 1:49 Ignore node_modules during debugging 2:26 Self-XSS warning 2:48 Animations tab enhancements 3:19 New media badge 3:46 Bonus tip: Paper cut bugs Resources: https://goo.gle/cookiecountdown https://goo.gle/ps-analysis-tool-repo https://goo.gle/devtools-ignore-settings https://goo.gle/devtools-animation https://goo.gle/devtools-media Questions?…

Circles is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Singapore and is transforming the telecommunications industry. Launched in 2014, Circles now operates across 14 markets and serves millions of customers globally.Through our digital expertise gained from operating our own digital lifestyle telco brand, Circles.

Bootstrapping a new startup can be a rewarding and challenging experience. When we founded Descifra, we were determined to transform how organizations analyze data to grow their business.

YugabyteDB, a distributed SQL database, when combined with BigQuery, tackles data fragmentation, data integration, and scalability issues businesses face.It ensures that data is well-organized and not scattered across different places, making it easier to use in BigQuery for analytics.

For years, Google has been on the front lines, working with mobile carriers and smartphone manufacturers to enhance and adopt RCS (Rich Communication Services) – the new standard for texting.

Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 120 (120.0.6099.43) for Android to a small percentage of users. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.This release includes stability and performance improvements.

Join Jecelyn and special guest Barry as they dive deep into the world of the bfcache and how it can make it lightning-fast to navigate around web sites. Learn how to optimize your site for the bfcache, and discover powerful debugging techniques to troubleshoot any blocking issues.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 121 (121.0.6155.2) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 120 (120.0.6099.47) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Harry SoudersGoogle Chrome

Plus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. You’re encouraged to thus grab the latest updates for the browser.…

Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus MSRP – $499.00 “The Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus delivers great hardware that creates a superb ChromeOS experience without hurting your wallet too badly. It is a shining example of what Google wants to showcase with Chromebook Plus.

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2023. This month, Mandiant Consulting’s Earl Matthews discusses Security Validation, a vital tool that can give CISOs better information for making security decisions, and can help organizations understand their true security posture and risk profile.

When we first heard that a new button was coming to ChromeOS that would allow users to move through their open Virtual Desks a bit more quickly, I was pretty dismissive. We already have a dedicated key on the keyboard for that, a trackpad gesture, and keyboard shortcuts.

Google has updated the issue plaguing Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 devices since the ChromeOS 117 update. Fix details are available and in the works.

I’m not going to lie: this is a cloud gaming moment I’ve been waiting on for a very long time.

It is 2023 (well, almost 2024) and all the major operating systems have built-in ‘Focus Mode” to help you avoid digital distractions and get stuff done. In a future release Chrome OS also introduce a built-in focus mode.

The update is available now for some users, with a full rollout expected over the “coming days/weeks.

Google LLC has released an emergency security update for its Chrome browser following the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could open the door to attacks. The vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2023-6345, is described as an integer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome before version 119.0.6045.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 120 (120.0.6099.43) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

The Beta channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.56 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

The Stable channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.56 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

A couple weeks ago, we talked about the surprising fact that Target has a whole collection of manufacturer refurbished Chromebooks on their website.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 120 (120.0.6099.50) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few hours.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

Shared VPCs adhere to the principle of least privilege, where only the centralized network and security teams have permissions to create and manage the networking infrastructure in the host project. Developers, on the other hand, only have permissions to deploy compute, storage, and other resources in the service projects.

With the issues we’ve seen in the past couple ChromeOS updates – 118 and 119 – there’s been a general messiness with the entire process that saw ChromeOS 119 pulled down from the updates server for a couple weeks.

ChromeOS updates have been a bit of a rollercoaster over the past few months. While 117 arrived with Material You in a pretty straightforward fashion, ChromeOS 118 and 119 have been anything but smooth sailing.

The ChromeOS 119 release is now available, a week after the update was removed. That’s good but the lack of communication on this? There’s room for improvement.

Private browsing. Incognito. Privacy mode.Web browser functions like those trace their roots back more than a decade, and the feature — first found in a top browser in 2005 — spread quickly as one copied another, made tweaks and minor improvements.But privacy-promising labels can be treacherous.

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 119 (119.0.6045.193) for Android: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.