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Google’s Titan M3 chip makes the Pixel 11 its first phone to meet NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards. Here is what quantum safe boot actually protects, why a seven year support promise forces the issue, and the part of the threat it does not cover.

Android’s September Drop adds Motion Assist, which puts moving dots around your screen to ease car sickness. Here is the science behind it, how to switch it on, and how it compares to the version Apple shipped in 2024.

Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.

Google is putting €13 billion into Finnish AI infrastructure and has signed a 22-year deal for up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output. The agreement rescues a reactor from retirement, and Finland’s opposition is not entirely thrilled.

Google has rolled out a DMA mandated redesign of search results across the EU, stripping live hotel and flight prices and calling it the largest quality drop in the company’s 29 year history.

Google Labs launched Play with Putty, a real time multiplayer vibe coding tool where a whole group builds an app together from one shared prompt stream. Here is how it works and how it stacks up against Cursor, Replit and Lovable.

The September Android Drop lets you tell Gemini where you put your passport and ask for it back later. It is a genuinely useful feature built on a much smaller idea than the headline suggests, and the version requirements mean most people will only get two of the five things Google announced.

Google Messages now lets you give every conversation its own color and wallpaper. Unlike Apple’s version, the theme you pick stays on your phone and never changes what the other person sees. Here is how to set one up and why the option may be missing.

Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users three days after Trump signed the order. Apple Maps has not moved, so the President called Apple directly. The mechanism behind all of it is one row in a federal database.

Google Assistant starts being removed from Android on September 4, and there is no way back once your device switches. Here is which of your devices are affected, the two features Gemini still cannot replace, and the ten minute check worth doing before Friday.