Gmail is turning its stars and chevrons blue, and users aren’t happy

Joe Maring / Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: Google replaced Gmail’s default yellow stars and yellow importance chevrons with high-contrast, saturated blue markers to improve accessibility. However, users complain that the identical blue tones flatten the visual hierarchy, make email scanning harder, and add visual clutter. While there’s no way to revert the […]

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Learn about Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Future designs of our satellites will each carry dozens of TPU chips while orbiting the Earth in clusters. To maintain the bandwidth necessary to process AI, every satellite has to know both its own position and where it sits relative to its neighbors. To do this, the satellites will communicate via lasers. The technology in […]

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Australia says OpenAI’s rogue AI hacked a government website, and the company took months to report it

What we know so far: AI agents going rogue and breaching other companies’ systems is bad enough, but Australia says this trend has taken a worrying turn. An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics portal in June, prompting an investigation into whether other systems were affected. Making matters worse, authorities weren’t […]

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Security and Resilience Are the Make-or-Break for Scaling AI

Dell has delivered over 6,500 AI Factories to customers across nearly every industry, giving us a front-row view into what separates organizations that scale AI from those that stall. From that vantage point, we see a common barrier to scaling related to the security and resilience strategy for AI solutions. We commissioned independent research from […]

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Raspberry Pi’s RAM lock was built to stop scalpers, but it’s blocking repairs too

Winners & losers: Raspberry Pi has confirmed that its firmware prevents users from changing a board’s factory RAM configuration, a restriction that blocks not only unofficial memory upgrades but also some attempts to replace failed RAM chips with equivalent parts. The company says the measure is meant to stop resellers from passing off untested, modified […]

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Bitcoin ETFs just erased a $5.7 billion hole, but profit-taking is swallowing the new demand

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have erased their 2026 flow deficit after a sharp buying revival, even as the top crypto struggles to hold its latest gains. Data from SoSoValue shows that the US-listed funds have attracted more than $1.7 billion in fresh capital this week, with the products drawing $999 million on Sept. 21 and […]

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Qualcomm’s new chips show how AI agents are tying together phones, laptops, and earbuds

One of the more interesting trends starting to emerge in personal technology is a simultaneous divergence of devices designed for individual use and a convergence of the computing systems to which they connect. While we’re beginning to see a much broader range of intelligent form factors and devices, we’re also increasingly seeing them focused on […]

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Cardano proposal slashes fees by 55%, but it comes with a cost for small pools

A new Cardano governance action proposes cutting the minimum from 170 ADA to 75 ADA, this time without the Plutus memory-limit change that brought stake pool operators into the previous ballot. The proposal drops one voting requirement that stopped the earlier action. Approval is pending, and each pool would still set its own declared fee. […]

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Google gets another $460 million fine for misusing user data

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google has been fined €403 million ($462 million) for misusing European users’ location history and web browsing activity. The Irish DPC, acting on behalf of the EU, said Google stores users’ location data, violating the GDPR. It also said the data could have been used for targeted advertising or to […]

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