Weekly Issue: 2025-50

Since its inception, YouTube TV has been one of the best ways to cut the cord without losing the live TV experience. But as the price has slowly crept up to $72.

Since its inception, YouTube TV has been one of the best ways to cut the cord without losing the live TV experience. But as the price has slowly crept up to $72.

 The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 142.0.7499.235 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 143.0.7499.109/.110 for Windows/Mac  and 143.0.7499.109 for Linux, 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.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the IDC Marketscape has positioned Google as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Hyperscaler Marketplaces. We believe this recognition underscores our commitment to deliver a cloud marketplace experience that fuels the AI agent economy and accelerates innovation.

Build it … secure it … launch it … observe it. In the AI era, these four key tasks capture the essence of the cloud-native world’s focus as autonomous platforms play more of a role in running today’s enterprise. For cloud-native leaders such as Red Hat Inc.

We talk a lot about the best Chromebooks here, and lately, devices like the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 have been stealing the spotlight with their fantastic designs and gorgeous OLED screens.

We have all been there: you are in a Google Meet call, you hit “Present” to share your screen, and suddenly your colleagues disappear behind your slide deck or spreadsheet. You are left presenting to the void, unable to see head nods, confused looks, or raised hands.

We all take tons of videos, but most of them just sit in our cloud storage, unseen and unedited. Why? Because editing video on a phone is generally a tedious, clunky experience.

Today, we expanded Google’s support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the release of fully-managed, remote MCP servers, giving developers worldwide consistent and enterprise-ready access to Google and Google Cloud services.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 144 (144.0.7559.19) 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 144 (144.0.7559.21) 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.

Pausing your display makes tracing artwork or diagrams much simpler. Learning how to freeze the Chromebook screen to trace helps artists, students, and professionals capture images accurately. This guide covers practical techniques for temporarily locking your display. When you copy drawings or analyze visual content, a moving screen creates problems.

The crash game craze has grown rapidly in the last few years, and it’s a form of gambling that has managed to get a firm grip on younger players in particular.

Google Chromebooks may be a pretty successful series of laptop computers, but they aren’t really known for their gaming capabilities. It isn’t really true, however, to say that Chromebooks are not able to play games. There are some games that work really well on ChromeOS machines.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 143 (143.0.7499.108) 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.

Say hello to chrome://contextual-tasks.

Say hello to chrome://contextual-tasks.

If you haven’t played with Mixboard yet, you are missing out on one of Google’s most interesting AI experiments. It started as a fluid, AI-powered whiteboard for brainstorming—sort of like a mood board that could talk back.

If you haven’t played with Mixboard yet, you are missing out on one of Google’s most interesting AI experiments. It started as a fluid, AI-powered whiteboard for brainstorming—sort of like a mood board that could talk back.

Concerned about keeping your API keys in a Chrome Extension? Extensions can make a request to the server, and then your server can make a request to the Gemini API. This way only the server needs to know the API key.

Google is deploying a second AI model to monitor its Gemini-powered Chrome browsing agent after acknowledging the agent could be tricked into taking unauthorized actions through prompt injection attacks.

Google is deploying a second AI model to monitor its Gemini-powered Chrome browsing agent after acknowledging the agent could be tricked into taking unauthorized actions through prompt injection attacks.

If you rewind the clock to this time last year, we were pretty excited about a new baseboard we found in the Chromium Repositories code-named ‘Fatcat’.

If you rewind the clock to this time last year, we were pretty excited about a new baseboard we found in the Chromium Repositories code-named ‘Fatcat’.

Your browser settings can change without warning. Apps, extensions, or unwanted software sometimes modify your preferences. Learning how to reset your settings on a Chromebook helps you fix these problems fast. This process restores your Chrome browser to its default state. Your bookmarks and saved passwords remain safe throughout.

Your browser settings can change without warning. Apps, extensions, or unwanted software sometimes modify your preferences. Learning how to reset your settings on a Chromebook helps you fix these problems fast. This process restores your Chrome browser to its default state. Your bookmarks and saved passwords remain safe throughout.

Chrome tabs may soon appear in Pixel searches, copying a feature that debuted with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 Plus.

Chrome tabs may soon appear in Pixel searches, copying a feature that debuted with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 Plus.

Today, we are thrilled to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is generally available on Google Cloud. NC2 on Google Cloud is designed to migrate and modernize specialized, regulated, and mission-critical applications without refactoring your workloads or compromising on performance.

Today, we are thrilled to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is generally available on Google Cloud. NC2 on Google Cloud is designed to migrate and modernize specialized, regulated, and mission-critical applications without refactoring your workloads or compromising on performance.

In a volatile jobs market upended by AI and a host of other factors, it’s important to recognize employers that go above and beyond to support their IT workforce. For the 32nd year, Computerworld publisher Foundry surveyed large, midsize, and small organizations to find those exceptional organizations.

In a volatile jobs market upended by AI and a host of other factors, it’s important to recognize employers that go above and beyond to support their IT workforce. For the 32nd year, Computerworld publisher Foundry surveyed large, midsize, and small organizations to find those exceptional organizations.

As a leading destination for managing investment risk, CME Group’s derivatives marketplace is a testament to precision software engineering. The company manages 24 billion events every day, each processed in around 100 microseconds.

As a leading destination for managing investment risk, CME Group’s derivatives marketplace is a testament to precision software engineering. The company manages 24 billion events every day, each processed in around 100 microseconds.