Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to trusted defenders via Fairwind
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a model built to find and fix software vulnerabilities, and made it available to a group of trusted defenders through its Fairwind Program, an early-access security release rather...
Zimperium reports RatHat malware using AI to navigate Android devices
Zimperium zLabs reported a new Android malware family, RatHat, that uses an AI-powered subsystem to remotely navigate compromised devices. Researchers said it is distributed through malvertising, SMS, and phishing sites promoting...
UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics
The United Nations on Thursday announced the UN System Data Commons with Google, replacing the UNData portal with a natural-language platform that supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can query official statistics dir...
CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited Pixel modem zero-day in three days
Google disclosed that attackers actively exploited CVE-2026-58704, a high-severity flaw in the cellular modem of Pixel smartphones, before a fix was available. The defect allows an adjacent attacker to escalate privileges without...
AWS adds Gemma 4 open-weight models to Bedrock in EU sovereign cloud
Amazon Web Services said Gemma 4, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model family, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS called it the first open-weight family...
Google pilots payments to sites whose content appears in AI Overviews
Google is testing an AI contribution pilot that pays websites when their content is used in AI Overviews and other AI results, Digiday reported. The program includes at least dozens of publishers, mainly small and mid-sized, and ...
