Weekly Issue: 2025-36

Temporary private chats are to Gemini what an incognito tab is for Chrome, and they’re extremely useful.

The cloud isn’t bad, but self-hosting offers control, privacy, and flexibility.

Optical lens shifting offers flexible image orientation without all the digital downsides.

We’re excited to announce an expansion to our Compute Flexible Committed Use Discounts (Flex CUDs), providing you with greater flexibility across your cloud environment. Your spend commitments now stretch further and cover a wider array of Google Cloud services and VM families, translating into greater savings for your workloads.

It’s been an interesting debut for the new Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514.

While the stunning new Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 may have stolen the ChromeOS headlines at IFA Berlin 2025, it wasn’t the only new ChromeOS hardware Acer had to show off.

A few months ago, Google announced a suite of new creative, AI-powered tools that were on their way to Google Photos. And now, those features are getting a proper home, as Google has announced that the new Create tab is now officially rolling out in the U.S.

How much time do you lose each week to missed appointments or double-bookings?  This adds annoyance and stress to both your customers and team, as for the business, it means wasted hours and money. It doesn’t have to be that way. Tools like https://www.qnomy.

It might be missing one travel-friendly feature depending on where you buy it.

Industry interest has been piqued by AI browsers, which promote the idea that users can organize everything all in one place, instead of in multiple disparate tabs, and call on the assistance of AI agents to help.

Industry interest has been piqued by AI browsers, which promote the idea that users can organize everything all in one place, instead of in multiple disparate tabs, and call on the assistance of AI agents to help.

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 141 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 141.0.7390.

M-141, ChromeOS version 16404.4.0 (Browser version 141.0.7390.

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Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers, Baseten has just passed a significant milestone.

This week’s GeForce NOW Thursday showed up today packed with big news.

For a while now, it’s felt like Google’s Nest and smart home ecosystem has been a bit neglected.

The latest quarterly Pixel Feature Drop is here, and the September update is a big one, especially for owners of slightly older Pixel phones and the Pixel Buds Pro 2.

‘A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,’ claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company Atlassian today revealed it has purchased New York startup The Browser Company, and it appears the pair have plans to reinvent the ChromeOS wheel with added… AI.…

‘A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,’ claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company Atlassian today revealed it has purchased New York startup The Browser Company, and it appears the pair have plans to reinvent the ChromeOS wheel with added… AI.…

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 142 (142.0.7391.0) 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.

Need to build a slide presentation for a meeting, training, or other event? Google Slides is an easy-to-use web app that comes with essential tools and extras for creating and presenting slide decks. It stores your presentations in the cloud with Google Drive.

If you’re new to Google Slides, our Google Slides cheat sheet can quickly get you up and running with the popular web-based presentation app. Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to dig in with a few intermediate tips.

A new LTC version 138.0.7204.255 (Platform Version: 16295.75.0), 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-132 until October 14th, 2025.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 141 (141.0.7390.5) 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.

A new LTS  version 132.0.6834.242 (Platform Version: 16093.116.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices. Release notes for LTS-132 can be found here Want to know more about Long-term Support? Click hereAndy WuGoogle Chrome OS

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 141 (141.0.7390.4) 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.

I used to love Chromebooks, to the point where my main laptop was a Chromebook for a few years.

M-139, ChromeOS version 16328.65.0 (Browser version 139.0.7258.

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Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 140 (140.0.7339.101) 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.

For quite some time now, the massive Department of Justice antitrust case against Google has loomed over the tech world, with the potential for seismic, landscape-altering changes.

Ever hesitated to use a new web feature, wondering if it’s truly ready for prime time? Baseline gives you instant, up-to-date compatibility data, integrated directly into the developer tools you already use. Now, we’re asking you to help us take it further.

We have the brand-new Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 in the Chrome Unboxed studio, and that means its time for an unboxing and hands-on video.

Written by: Rommel Joven, Josh Fleischer, Joseph Sciuto, Andi Slok, Choon Kiat Ng In a recent investigation, Mandiant Threat Defense discovered an active ViewState deserialization attack affecting Sitecore deployments leveraging sample machine keys that had been exposed in Sitecore deployment guides from 2017 and earlier. An attacker leveraged the exposed ASP.