Weekly Issue: 2024-31

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 128 (128.0.6613.14) 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.

Google Chrome has been king of web browsers for quite some time now, but the added features and functionality it has picked up over the years has led to parts of the browser becoming a bit crowded; especially on smaller screens or lower resolutions.

The Beta channel has been updated to 128.0.6613.18 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.

Windows users now get macOS-grade secret security Google says it’s enhancing the security of sensitive data managed by Chrome for Windows users to fight the scourge of infostealer malware targeting cookies.…

It pops, it locks, this is the dialog element. Discover a mini web machine that captures the users attention and focuses them into a blocking, overlaying action experience!

I have been using the LaCrOs version of Chrome for more than a year, and I was devastated when I read Robby’s post about Google shutting down the LaCrOs experiment in the near future. “Devastated” might seem like a bit of an overstatement, but let me explain.

Google Chrome is adding a way to automatically group your tabs. This new feature will be available in the recently added tab search menu. Organize Tabs Google added a bunch of tab orgnization-related flags this morning to the Chromium Gerrit.

For quite some time, we didn’t see much movement in the new SoC arena from MediaTek. They first launched the now-named Kompanio 500 with the introduction of the original Lenovo Chromebook Duet and not too long after, we got the Kompanio 800 and Kompanio 1000 series.

Windows laptops have one big advantage over Macs: touchscreens. I’m not saying you should switch to a touch-first PC experience and throw away your mouse. But too many people discount the usefulness of a touchscreen PC. Those touchscreens can be a big productivity boost.

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 127 (127.0.6533.84) 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.

Companies striving for data platform success are facing a strategic dilemma: combining the flexibility, scalability and feature-rich nature of open standards with the tighter, more coherent governance controls of monolithic data strategies.

The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 126.0.6478.226 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here.

The Stable channel has been updated to 127.0.6533.88/89 for Windows, Mac and 127.0.6533.88 for Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.

A leading internet standards body has slammed Google for deciding once again to leave in place support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser — even though the privacy-invading tracking technology “is not good for the Web” and can harm users.

After being in development for months, it looks like a version of Android’s Circle to Search is coming to the desktop via the Chrome browser.

Chrome 127 is rolling out! Learn about the font-size-adjust CSS property and how it allows you to adjust the font size of fallback fonts to keep the aspect value (height of lowercase letters divided by font size) consistent, ensuring that the text appears similar, regardless of the font used.

Having insights into the health of your distributed systems is critical for maintaining system uptime, ensuring optimal performance, and swiftly resolving issues before they impact end-users. A centralized log management system, in particular, can be an especially powerful tool for operations teams.

For deep learning researchers and practitioners, the open-source PyTorch machine learning (ML) library and XLA ML compiler provide flexible, powerful model training, fine-tuning and serving. Today, the PyTorch/XLA team is excited to announce the release of PyTorch/XLA 2.

AI-native vector database startup Weaviate B.V. is expanding into artificial intelligence development with the launch of a new “workbench” that consists of various cloud-based applications and tools for developers, along with a flexible, tiered storage offering.

A new LTC-126 version 126.0.6478.214 (Platform Version: 15886.69.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices. If you have devices in the LTC channel, they will be updated to this version. The LTS channel remains on LTS-120 until October 1st, 2024.

Ah, Google. Making headlines once again for adding yet another service to the famed Google Graveyard. This time around, it’s the goo.gl URL shortener that is now set to stop working on August 25th, 2025.

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are here and Google is taking the fan experience to the next level with a few new features and integrations. Teaming up with Team USA and NBCUniversal, Google is flexing its tech muscles to bring the excitement of the Olympics straight to your fingertips.

Following Android (and even iOS with a shortcut), Circle to Search — officially “Drag to search” —  is coming to desktop Chrome/Chromebooks with a very prominent Google Lens icon.

Editor’s Note: Maxxton — a combined central reservation and property management system property management system services provider for the hospitality industry — is in the process of modernizing its legacy software to cope with the massive amount of data it needs to ingest and analyze every day.

Developers and business users often need to access specialized applications and tools to help them work faster, more productively, and more resourcefully.

Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we’re launching Identity and Access Management (IAM) group authentication in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud  SQL for MySQL, simplifying user management and database authentication.

A few weeks ago, the disappointing news came down that Google was abandoning the experimental Lacros browser for ChromeOS and Chromebooks across the board.

Happy Sysadmin Day Google celebrated Sysadmin Day last week by apologizing for breaking its password manager for millions of Windows users – just as many Windows admins were still hard at work mitigating the impact of the faulty CrowdStrike update.…