A new NBER working paper analyzing over 100,000 GitHub developers finds that AI coding tools boosted commits by up to 180% with autonomous agents, but gains fell to 50% for projects and 30% for releas…
Google's Gemini AI assistant is reportedly responding to ambient conversations on Android and Pixel devices even when hotword detection is disabled, with users tracing the issue to hands-free assistan…
Gotcha, an AI copilot for Android, runs entirely on-device, integrating with the OS to understand screen context and automate tasks without cloud round-trips. The app offers lower latency and privacy …
Gotcha, an on-device AI copilot for Android developed by Samosa AI, is now available as an APK on GitHub Releases, enabling users to control device functions through natural language commands. The app…
A security researcher discovered a poorly designed ransomware app disguised as an AI teaching app for high school students, distributed via a Facebook post as a 76 KB APK. The ransomware demands $300 …
Matt Asay, writing in 2014, argued that enterprises should open source internal software to involve users in improvements, turning organizational problems into industry consensus. Twelve years later, …
Google LLC will shut down Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026, replacing it with Gemini as the AI assistant on smartphones, tablets, watches, and Android Auto. The trans…
Google Assistant will officially begin shutting down on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, as Google replaces it with Gemini, its next-generation AI-powered assistant, according to a report by 9to5Google. The com…
Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS smartwatches, headphones, and Android Auto starting September 4, replacing it entirely with Gemini in a multi-week rollout. Th…
Google will remove access to Google Assistant on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices starting September 4, 2026, according to an email reported by 9to5Google and shared on Reddit. The Verge ha…
Linxr v3.0.0 introduces live serial boot logs, Storage Access Framework (SAF) file sharing, and embedded Docker container management. The update redirects Alpine Linux's kernel console to serial outpu…
Google has begun emailing Android users that Google Assistant will start disappearing from phones on September 4, with the transition to Gemini taking place over several weeks, after which users canno…
Google LLC announced that Google Assistant will be discontinued on Android and Wear OS devices starting September 4, 2026, with the transition to its Gemini AI assistant. The company sent emails to us…
Notability, the popular note-taking app previously exclusive to Apple devices, is now widely available on Android after a beta period, with a 25% discount on its Plus tier to celebrate the launch. The…
JetBrains has made KotlinLLM, its research prototype for delegating runtime logic to a large language model from Kotlin code, open source and public. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin, announced in July, adds …
A developer profiling an on-device AI model discovered that raw inference time was not the bottleneck, contrary to common assumptions, and that input processing times remained high on low-end devices.…
Google is testing a feature in version 17.45.14 of the Google app on Android that would allow users to create AI agents directly from their mobile devices, potentially extending the capability beyond …
Google has canceled its standalone AI Studio mobile app before launch, despite around 800,000 users pre-ordering it on Android and iOS. The company announced on X that it will instead integrate AI Stu…
Google is redesigning the voice search button on Android, adding a bottom toolbar with Search, AI Mode, Search Live, and Song Search options, similar to Google Lens. The redesign, spotted in the Googl…
Bitsight researchers uncovered Fuyao, a multimillion-dollar ad fraud operation that used preinstalled Android apps, device identity spoofing, AI-generated websites, and residential proxy services to g…