Nelle scorse ore Google ha annunciato una novità piuttosto importante in Android che permetterà di passare più agevolmente da un password manager all’altro, trasferendo il database di credenziali (sia password sia passkey) direttamente, senza bisogno di esportarlo e importarlo manualmente, con tutti i rischi derivati dalla generazione di file contenenti dati così sensibili (spesso nemmeno crittografati).
Fino a oggi, cambiare password manager significava spesso esportare l’intero archivio delle credenziali in un file locale, salvarlo sul dispositivo e successivamente importarlo nel nuovo servizio. In molti casi questi file possono essere archiviati senza crittografia; e poi bisogna ricordarsi di eliminare il file una volta completata la procedura, per evitare che rimanga accessibile sul dispositivo. Con il nuovo sistema, invece, l’utente deve semplicemente avviare la procedura di importazione dal nuovo password manager scelto. A quel punto Android rileva automaticamente i gestori di password compatibili installati sullo smartphone e consente di selezionare quello da cui trasferire i dati.
Il sistema si occupa di gestire il collegamento tra i due servizi, richiedendo l’autorizzazione necessaria per il trasferimento. Dopo la conferma dell’utente, password e passkey verranno spostate senza la creazione di file intermedi e senza ulteriori passaggi manuali. Certo, non è un’operazione che si fa una volta a settimana, ma vista la criticità dei dati salvati fa comodo avere una procedura ad hoc che minimizzi i pericoli per l’utente.
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As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins into a new app, but now Android can do that for you without the tedium.
Google designed the new login transfer process to happen entirely on your phone, so you need the corresponding apps installed with your credentials synced. To start the move, you'll have to find the import option in the app you want to use. The location of that feature will vary, but in Google Password Manager (built into Android), it's near the top under the settings tab.
The import option in Google Password Manager will plug in to the new migration system, while export still just creates an unencrypted CSV with your passwords that can be dumped into any app. It will be similar in other apps, so make sure to start the process in the app you want to use. Currently, this works in Google's app, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane.
As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure, you could manually type all your logins into a new app, but now Android can do that for you without the tedium.
Google designed the new login transfer process to happen entirely on your phone, so you need the corresponding apps installed with your credentials synced. To start the move, you'll have to find the import option in the app you want to use. The location of that feature will vary, but in Google Password Manager (built into Android), it's near the top under the settings tab.
The import option in Google Password Manager will plug in to the new migration system, while export still just creates an unencrypted CSV with your passwords that can be dumped into any app. It will be similar in other apps, so make sure to start the process in the app you want to use. Currently, this works in Google's app, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane.
Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings.
Kreuzkamp founded a startup called Springshot in 2011, which created a widely used proprietary platform that helps humans and AI systems improve airline efficiency and quickly solve logistics problems so flights can stay on time and airlines can operate as smoothly as possible. Hundreds of airports use it globally.
Springshot powered Spirit’s technology stack for the last three years, right up to the “very last flight,” Kreuzkamp told Ars. Yet his company got no notice when Spirit prepared to auction off a massive dataset that he thinks likely improperly includes a substantial amount of data and intellectual property (IP) that Springshot owns—not Spirit.
Le Google Pixel 10a mise sur une durée de vie logicielle particulièrement longue, des fonctions photo assistées par l’IA et une autonomie annoncée à plus de 30 heures. Un smartphone pensé pour rester pertinent pendant des années qui s'affiche en ce moment à -29 % sur Amazon.
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On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don't appear in our reference genome means sending a total of 9 billion bases through AlphaGenome software.
AlphaGenome is designed to identify potential functions of non-coding DNA, which does not encode proteins but makes up the vast majority of the human genome. Some of this non-coding DNA is essential for controlling the activity of the protein-coding portion—it tells the cell where and when to make messenger RNAs, how to process them into mature protein-coding forms, and so on. But much of it appears to be little more than the remains of viruses and other molecular parasites.
Being able to identify the functional portion is very useful, as is having all the analysis done by a single software package. But until biologists start to use it heavily (assuming they do), it won't be clear what AlphaGenome offers beyond what we could have gotten out of its training data.
On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don't appear in our reference genome means sending a total of 9 billion bases through AlphaGenome software.
AlphaGenome is designed to identify potential functions of non-coding DNA, which does not encode proteins but makes up the vast majority of the human genome. Some of this non-coding DNA is essential for controlling the activity of the protein-coding portion—it tells the cell where and when to make messenger RNAs, how to process them into mature protein-coding forms, and so on. But much of it appears to be little more than the remains of viruses and other molecular parasites.
Being able to identify the functional portion is very useful, as is having all the analysis done by a single software package. But until biologists start to use it heavily (assuming they do), it won't be clear what AlphaGenome offers beyond what we could have gotten out of its training data.
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Google is set to invest at least €13 billion in digital infrastructure across Finland over the next two years, putting AI facilities, nuclear power and renewable energy at the centre of its largest single outlay in Europe.
The spending will cover new digital infrastructure across the regions of Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala as the technology giant looks to expand capacity for services including Gemini, Search, Maps and YouTube.
The investment is expected to support more than 37,000 jobs nationwide and contribute an annual average of €3.6 billion to Finland’s GDP. Once operational, the new facilities are projected to support around 7,000 jobs annually.
It also includes a commitment of €31 million for local community initiatives over four years, including €10 million for research and innovation. Additionally, more than 4,400 workers will receive AI skills training through local partnerships
According to Google, the new sites will use existing grid infrastructure and locate closer to carbon-free energy sources. The outlay will also fund biodiversity restoration, including native forest, peatland and wetland projects.
Google’s hefty Finnish commitment dwarfs its other European investments. The company pledged €5.5 billion to Germany through 2029 and committed €600 million to a new AI facility in the Netherlands in 2024. It also broke ground on its first data centre in Austria this year as it expands AI capacity across the region.
Nokia backing Alongside the investment, Google struck a 22-year power purchase agreement with Finnish energy company Fortum to support the continued operation of a nuclear power plant near the southern town of Loviisa. The deal marks the company’s first nuclear power contract outside the US, according to Reuters.
Google said that without the latest agreement, the plant, which currently supplies around 10% of Finland’s electricity and employs about 580 people, would not be able to continue operating beyond 2030. Keeping it online is expected to support grid resilience and help stabilise electricity prices across the country.
Google’s latest outlay deepens its existing presence in Finland, where it has operated a data centre in Hamina since 2009, supporting more than 600 suppliers including domestic operators DNA, Elisa and vendor Nokia.
Commenting on the Google investment, Nokia CEO Justin Hotard pointed to its partnership with the company on delivering optical and IP networks, while outlining a commitment to build out infrastructure to help connect Google’s activities in Finland to the world.
“Every AI token is a network moment. Billions of agents, devices, and people act on intelligence in real time, and every one of those moments depends on a network that is fast, secure and always on. Nokia builds those networks,” said Hotard.
That being said, generative AI can be incredibly useful. The key is simply to frame it as a purpose-specific tool for the right type of limited task as opposed to treating it as the end-all answer for everything, as most tech players seem overly eager to do these days.
Today, I’ve got a new Gemini Android advantage for you to explore — another one that I’ve never seen advertised anywhere but that works brilliantly well and solves a long-standing limitation of our modern mobile gizmos.
It’ll take you all of a minute to master and cost you precisely $0 to pull off. Ready?
This Gemini-provided power-up very much follows the path of thinking about AI as a limited, purpose-specific tool for a narrow task — the exact sort of area where AI excels.
I won’t keep you waiting: Gemini, as I discovered whilst poking around within it recently, is really good at generating unique, custom ringtones and notification sounds based on your personal preferences and specifications.
It almost seems obvious, once you think about it. But I sure hadn’t thought about it up until now — and I suspect most other folks haven’t, either.
The advantage here goes beyond just superficial silliness, too: By creating your own custom ringtones and notification noises, you can know exactly what event your phone is alerting you to within a split second of hearing the associated sound — without having to rely on the same limited and often underwhelming pool of default options that everyone else uses (or, worse yet, having to lean on shady, ad-ridden “ringtone apps” to find mediocre alternatives). That means you’ll know within a heartbeat when your boss or an especially important client is calling or if an incoming call is a random unknown number.
On the notification front, you can create a specific, memorable sound to accompany a new message in an important work-related Slack channel and a different distinctive sound for a high-priority email. They’ll all be sounds that you make and identity with and that no one else in the world uses. That’s pretty powerful.
And creating these custom sounds couldn’t be much easier, either, once you realize it’s possible:
First, just fire up Gemini on your phone (or on any device you’re using) and tell it what you want. So, for instance…
Create a soft, subtle ringtone that’s reminiscent of an old office phone sound.
Create a ringtone that sounds like an 8-bit version of The Final Countdown.
Create a one-second high-pitched notification sound that brings to mind the Super Mario Bros theme song.
Create a short notification sound that mimics the Back to the Future time circuits noise.
Create a notification sound that sounds like a robot saying “ALERT, ALERT!”
The only limit is your imagination. And if you’re not feeling especially imaginative, you can even ask Gemini to give you a list of ideas for distinctive, memorable ringtones or notification sounds based on geeky nostalgia, 80s pop-metal, or whatever it is that tickles your fancy.
Once you’ve sent a request, Gemini will — somewhat confusingly — spit back a big honkin’ block of HTML code. This is because, for reasons unknown, the system can’t or won’t just provide a sound file directly. Go figure.
Ask, and ye shall receive: Gemini’s ringtone-creating prowess in action.
JR Raphael, Foundry
But from there, it’s just one more quick step to get the file you need: Click or tap the copy icon in the upper-right corner of that code block — the icon that looks kinda like two stacked, rounded rectangles — to copy the entire chunk of code onto your system clipboard.
Then open up your browser and go to the website JSFiddle.net. It’s a well-known, long-standing tool for running code like HTML right in your browser and seeing the result, and it works entirely in the browser and without any downloads or special permissions required.
Tap or click into the “HTML” field, then paste in the code from your clipboard (by long-pressing any open space, on Android, and selecting “Paste” from the menu that appears). Click or tap the “Run” button, and — ta-da: You’ll see a player to listen to your custom Gemini-generated sound and a button to download it.
The JSFiddle website makes it easy to take Gemini’s output and both play and download a sound file from right within your web browser.
JR Raphael, Foundry
Provided you like what you hear, hit the button to download the file, then head into the Sound section of your Android system settings to save it and make it available for applying as any kind of alert or ringtone. The exact steps for doing that will vary from one type of Android device to another, but on a Pixel or another phone that follows Google’s core Android interface, you’ll tap on either “Ringtone” or “Notification,” then tap “My Sounds” and tap the plus icon to import your own custom file from your phone’s local storage.
On a Samsung device, you’ll start the same way but look for the plus icon within the “Ringtone” section of the settings, then tap the “Folders” tab to find your locally downloaded files. Samsung doesn’t make it easy to add in your own custom notification sounds, annoyingly, so what you’ll have to do is open up the Google Files app, find the file you downloaded in your “Downloads” folder, then tap the three-dot icon alongside it to copy it to the folder called “Notifications.” Once the file is in that folder, it should show up as a notification noise option within the Samsung Android settings.
With Gemini as your personal composer, you’ll never be stuck with generic overused sounds again — and you’ll always know exactly what’s happening from the first note of whatever noise you hear.
Accenture and Google Cloud expanded their long-standing partnership with the launch of a global joint initiative aimed at helping enterprise customers deploy and scale agentic AI tools and platforms.
The two companies formed the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a new unit operating within the existing Accenture Google Business Group, designed to help customers deploy Google Cloud’s agentic AI platform.
It will integrate Accenture’s certified Gemini Enterprise talent with dedicated Google Cloud engineering resources to assist clients in moving AI projects from experimental phases into commercial production.
As part of the rollout, the partners plan to establish a 1,000-person workforce of forward deployed engineers (FDEs) to work with clients on-site to plan and build AI applications based on the Gemini Enterprise platform.
The new unit will use Accenture’s existing foundation of nearly 50,000 Google Cloud-skilled personnel to build repeatable industry solutions, speed up time-to-value, and create specialised capability centres for enterprise-wide integration.
The Accenture and Google Cloud initiative targets accelerating enterprise demand for agentic AI architectures, which rely on autonomous digital agents to automate complex, multi-step workflows.
Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, stated the business group aims to unite advanced AI capabilities, data assets, and industry expertise to help corporate clients achieve productivity and growth targets faster.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian noted deploying agentic AI has quickly become a primary priority for enterprise technology buyers aiming for operational transformation.
FDE trend The move mirrors a growing pattern across the tech landscape as vendors deploy specialised engineering talent directly to client sites. OpenAI recently established a $10 billion joint venture with institutional investors to finance dedicated enterprise deployment teams, while Anthropic investors backed a $1.5 billion standalone venture to build hands-on FDE capabilities for corporate deployments.
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Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough
Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said.
The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in Silicon Valley, months after the government announced a social media ban for under-16s.
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