The dream of carrying your entire computer in your pocket just took a big step forward on Android. Google is officially throwing its hat into the ring, bringing a native Desktop Mode to eligible Google Pixel 8, 9, and 10 devices. While Google is putting the pieces together, Samsung has been building this out since 2017 with Samsung DeX. Google’s first attempt looks promising and sets a solid foundation, but is it enough to take the crown? For now, DeX’s mature features, seamless hardware integration, and quality-of-life touches keep it firmly in the lead. Related I tried Android’s Desktop Mode,…
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Hackers started exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Marimo open-source reactive Python notebook platform just 10 hours after its public disclosure. The flaw allows remote code execution without authentication in Marimo versions 0.20.4 and earlier. It tracked as CVE-2026-39987 and GitHub assessed it with a critical score of 9.3 out of 10. According to researchers at cloud-security company Sysdig, attackers created an exploit from the information in the developer’s advisory and immediately started using it in attacks that exfiltrated sensitive information. Marimo is an open-source Python notebook environment, typically used by data scientists, ML/AI practitioners, researchers, and developers building data…
Karandeep Singh / Android AuthorityGoogle Maps’ new AI chat tool showed up just in time for my Mumbai trip. I had to plan long commutes from the northern side, where I stayed, to the south, and discover all the must-try places in between. It was the perfect opportunity to test out Ask Maps to its limits — because that’s what Mumbai does to you, too. I’m proud that I made the best of this handy AI feature, and I found some amazing ways to make it work harder for me.Have you tried Google Maps’ AI feature yet?26 votesYes, and I…
While ChatGPT may have kicked off the generative AI era we now live in, it is far from alone these days. There is steep competition from multiple companies in this space, including Google, Anthropic, and even Microsoft—which has a huge financial stake in OpenAI. To compete, it seems OpenAI is trying to make its paid subscription plans more attractive to users, as the company just cut the price of ChatGPT Pro in half. ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100As reported by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s new pricing model now offers a Pro plan at $100 per month, down from $200 per month.…
Ravie LakshmananApr 12, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described as a case of prototype pollution that could result in arbitrary code execution. Prototype pollution refers to a JavaScript security vulnerability that permits an attacker to manipulate an application’sobjects and properties. The issue impacts the following products and versions for both Windows and macOS – Acrobat…
Every major AI platform can now browse websites autonomously. Chrome’s auto browse scrolls and clicks. ChatGPT Atlas fills forms and completes purchases. Perplexity Comet researches across tabs. But none of these agents sees your website the way a human does. This is Part 4 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web. Part 1 covered the evolution from SEO to AAIO. Part 2 explained how to get your content cited in AI responses. Part 3 mapped the protocols forming the infrastructure layer. This article gets technical: how AI agents actually perceive your website, and what to build…
Android in 2014 was a playground for innovation. The ecosystem was much simpler, and everyone was kind of doing their own thing. This led to more frequent fresh ideas compared to what we have today. Here’s some of the stuff we thought was groundbreaking back then—and I would really love it if a lot of these things were still around. Use your phone without touching it In the early to mid-2010s, smartphones were evolving at a breakneck pace, and manufacturers were desperate to find the next revolutionary input method. Samsung led the charge with features like Air Gestures and Smart…
I keep a running note of everything. Film recommendations, random thoughts at night, questions I want to ask my wife when I get home, and names of people I keep forgetting. It is a habit that has followed me across a dozen apps over the years, and the problem with that kind of habit is that you rarely stop to ask who else might have access to all those little windows into your life. When I finally did ask that question, I did not love what I found out about the apps I had been using. I stumbled upon Notesnook…
Adobe on Saturday released emergency patches for a critical Acrobat and Reader zero-day that has been exploited in the wild for several months. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621 and a CVSS score of 9.6. According to the software giant, the flaw stems from improperly controlled modifications to prototype attributes and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS are affected. Patches are included in version 26.001.21411 of Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, and versions 24.001.30362 and 24.001.30360 of Acrobat 2024. Adobe’s advisory confirms that CVE-2026-34621 has been exploited in…
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