Weekly Issue: 2026-34

If you regularly write in Spanish, you’ll be happy to hear that Google today announced that its neural network-powered grammar suggestions in its Docs online text editor are now available in Spanish, too.

We are thrilled to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms (CNAP).

If you rely on WhatsApp for daily communication and, like me, you spend most of your workday in a desktop browser on a Chromebook, you know the frustration of the platform’s biggest missing puzzle piece: making phone and video calls from WhatsApp Web.

If you rely on WhatsApp for daily communication and, like me, you spend most of your workday in a desktop browser on a Chromebook, you know the frustration of the platform’s biggest missing puzzle piece: making phone and video calls from WhatsApp Web.

If you rely on WhatsApp for daily communication and, like me, you spend most of your workday in a desktop browser on a Chromebook, you know the frustration of the platform’s biggest missing puzzle piece: making phone and video calls from WhatsApp Web.

If you rely on WhatsApp for daily communication and, like me, you spend most of your workday in a desktop browser on a Chromebook, you know the frustration of the platform’s biggest missing puzzle piece: making phone and video calls from WhatsApp Web.

If you rely on WhatsApp for daily communication and, like me, you spend most of your workday in a desktop browser on a Chromebook, you know the frustration of the platform’s biggest missing puzzle piece: making phone and video calls from WhatsApp Web.

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

If you have ever carried your laptop into a conference room, plugged an HDMI or USB-C cable into the big-screen TV, and spent the first three awkward minutes fumbling with display settings, dragging browser windows across screens, and praying a private notification doesn’t pop up in front of everyone, Google just built the exact feature…

For years, Walmart has stood as the single biggest holdout against NFC-based tap-to-pay in the United States. While nearly every other major retailer adopted contactless payments, Walmart insisted on funneling customers through its proprietary, QR-code-based Walmart Pay app. Thank goodness, that era is officially coming to an end.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to pick up the absolute peak of ChromeOS hardware, today is your day.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to pick up the absolute peak of ChromeOS hardware, today is your day.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to pick up the absolute peak of ChromeOS hardware, today is your day.

The Dev channel has been updated to 154.0.8013.2 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 Dev channel has been updated to 154.0.8013.2 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.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 154 (154.0.8013.0) 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.

Yonochomp com is a WordPress site that uses HTTPS and does not sell products, but its trustworthiness remains a common question among visitors.

Yonochomp com is a WordPress site that uses HTTPS and does not sell products, but its trustworthiness remains a common question among visitors.

Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 jumped $250 to $999 at Best Buy in May 2026, highlighting price volatility as no Chromebook-only average selling price is publicly tracked.

Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 jumped $250 to $999 at Best Buy in May 2026, highlighting price volatility as no Chromebook-only average selling price is publicly tracked.

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