Weekly Issue: 2024-10

In a bit of a surprise announcement, Microsoft recently announced the shutdown of Windows 11’s Windows Subsystem for Android.

In this talk, you’ll learn about the Privacy Sandbox technologies and the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome. You’ll get info on what you need to know about auditing your site, testing for breakage, migrating to alternatives, and making use of temporary exceptions and mitigations.

I have a love/hate relationship with Chromebooks and trackpads. On one hand, I love a smooth, glass trackpad with a satisfying click mechanism. On the other, I don’t love the ergonomic position I’m in all day if the built-in trackpad on my Chromebook is my only way to navigate on-screen.

If you rock a Pixel Watch, you probably already know how awesome the Watch Unlock feature is. If your face is covered or your hands are wet, just tap on the watch display, and boom, your Android phone magically unlocks without messing with passwords or fingerprint sensors.

While it would be fun to one day write a post about all current-gen Chromebooks being on sale all at once, this isn’t quite that.

Cloud gaming has made incredible strides in recent years, and GeForce NOW has consistently pushed the envelope, making gaming more accessible on Chromebooks. No longer a novelty, cloud gaming is a seriously viable way to play even the most demanding titles across a range of devices.

Under New Management is an early-warning system for potential poisoning of add-ons with malware Millions of Chrome users now have a way to guard against the threat of extension subversion, that is, if they don’t mind installing yet another browser extension.…

When copying and pasting using the Async Clipboard API the unsanitized option for the read() method allows apps and websites to get unsanitized HTML. Unless sites include this property, reading HTML from the clipboard will be sanitized. #NewInChrome #ChromeForDevelopers Speaker: Adriana Jara Products Mentioned: Chrome

At any given time, eBay’s marketplace has more than 1.9 billion listings from millions of different sellers, running the gamut from the latest gadgets to the most obscure collectibles.

Creating and managing the security of Kubernetes clusters is a lot like building or renovating a house. Both require making concessions across many areas when trying to find a balance between security, usability and maintainability.

We’ve been talking a lot lately about Chromebook Plus. There are good reasons for that, of course, and I think the conversation around these well-priced, well-made, well-spec’d devices will only continue.

In today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient. Work has expanded beyond the bounds of corporate networks, as work happens today in airports, coffee shops, at home, and even in mobile healthcare stations.

This week on The Chrome Cast, we generally stick to a single topic: using the venerable Pixelbook in 2024. Originally released in the fall of 2017, the Pixelbook still largely stands alone in the world of laptops and Chromebooks when we talk about sheer ingenuity, aesthetics, and build quality.

gRPC is a modern open-source, high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that plays a critical role in efficiently connecting microservices. Spring, meanwhile, is a popular framework that provides a flexible, modular programming model, comprehensive infrastructure integrations with a rich ecosystem and community support.

Kubernetes is a popular way to run AI workloads like training, and large language model (LLM) serving, including our new open model Gemma.

To say I’m a bit aggravated right now would be an understatement. The past few ChromeOS updates have arrived with disparate messaging, unclear feature additions, and flat out ghost features that are announced and (mostly) delivered weeks later.

For months after its release, the Lenovo Slim 3i Chromebook Plus was always one of my favorites, but rarely – if ever – on sale. While I don’t think the standard $549.

If you really need obsolete OSes, here’s a modern(ish) browser Supermium is a browser based on the Google Chrome 121 codebase that works fine on Windows 7 and even, for the truly desperate, for Vista and XP.…

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge I usually have at least half a dozen or more projects going at once: I can be writing or updating several short pieces, editing one or two others, getting ready for Apple or Google or some other company to announce their latest and greatest tech, or dealing with…

In 2024, AI is going to keep showing up in all sorts of places, and Google’s latest insertion of Gemini in one of its higher-profile products is landing in Google Keep.

For a very, very long time, we’ve talked at length about the need for there to be a single, unified place for Chromebook users to find apps. As the options for ChromeOS grew, the need only became greater and there’s been nothing done about this to date.

Generative AI is empowering developers — even those without experience in machine learning — to build transformative AI applications.

It is often said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.10 years ago, building a data technology stack felt a lot more like a thousand miles than it does today; technology, automation, and business understanding of the value of data have significantly improved.

As we near the end of our reviews on Chromebook Plus models (the new, branded ones, that is), one thing has remained constant throughout: these devices provide solid user experiences.

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced Sumo Logic Flex Licensing, a new log analytics pricing plan that offers free, unlimited log data ingest to allow developer, security and operations teams to capture and analyze critical data across their enterprise.

Google is working on a “Mall” app for Chrome OS. Mall is a new service that allows users to discover and install more web apps. Mall App According to a new Chromium OS code commits I spotted this morning, Google will soon add an experimental Mall app to Chrome OS.

The staggering $10.5 trillion annual cost of cybercrime projected for 2025 is truly forcing businesses to rethink their overall security.

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Glance, which offers diverse and engaging content directly on the lock screen of Android Phones ranging from breaking news, gaming, entertainment, to personalized shopping recommendations, empowering individuals to effortlessly discover and engage with what they love, all at a single glance.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) empowers businesses to efficiently orchestrate, manage, and scale containerized applications within Google Cloud. When designing your GKE environment, a pivotal decision arises: selecting between a regional or zonal cluster. This choice significantly impacts your application’s availability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

The way we have settled into the life span of the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3, it’s become clear that two distinct models are available for consumers to buy from two different places.

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to empowering customer choice and innovation through our curated collection of first-party, open-source, and third-party models available in Vertex AI.