Google Arts & Culture turns 15 — and gives its app a makeover
Explore art and culture with visual-first conversation search, a redesigned home feed, AI experiments and 27 new city guides in the Google Arts & Culture app.
How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app. The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims
RatHat’s operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in which each customer runs a separate copy. The console stores what the malware collects from…
Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect’s arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.
Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign
The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273. The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft Agent Framework Setup: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Microsoft folded Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single production SDK called Microsoft Agent Framework, and as of September 2026 it has settled into a stable, versioned release that developers can actually build on. The Python package sits at version 1.19.0, the .NET package at 1.22.0, both shipped September 18, 2026, and the framework crossed…
Muse Spark 1.3 Enters Frontier Tier, 3.4M Downloads [2026]
Meta’s AI agent Muse has crossed 3.4 million downloads less than three weeks after launch, and the model powering it just got promoted. Muse Spark 1.3, the latest version of Meta’s in-house model family, has entered what analysts are calling the “frontier tier” of AI models, according to third-party test results cited by J.P. Morgan…
EmuDeck Windows Setup: 27 Emulators in 13 Steps [2026]
EmuDeck started life as a script for Valve’s Steam Deck, but the Windows build has quietly become the fastest way to turn a regular PC into a full retro-to-eighth-gen game room. Instead of hunting down a dozen emulators one at a time, configuring BIOS paths by hand, and building a ROM folder structure from scratch,…
MiniMax M3.1 vs GPT-6 Luna vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 3x Price Gap [2026]
Three new budget-tier language models shipped inside a five-day window in late September 2026, and none of them price themselves the same way. MiniMax dropped M3.1 Flash Preview into its coding agent on September 27 without publishing a single rate. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna, live since September 22, undercuts its own flagship Astra tier by roughly…
Introducing Vertical Video Unification with Display & Video 360.
Unify vertical video buys with Google Display & Video 360. See how Unilever boosted reach by 24% using Gemini-powered measurement. Get the details.