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Backup codes will not save you: two of the three ways 'Sign in with Google' fails are not yours to fix

2026-08-17Security

The viral advice is recovery codes and a backup email. That covers losing your own account. It does nothing about someone buying your dead employer's domain and inheriting your Slack, or about accounts an admin cannot deprovision at all.

Google says it found the first zero-day it believes was developed with AI — and it was a logic flaw, not a memory bug

2026-08-16AI

GTIG's threat tracker names five PRC-nexus groups, six malware families and a 2FA bypass in an open-source admin tool. The interesting part is why an LLM found it: fuzzers look for crashes, and this was a hardcoded trust assumption.

Chrome is blocking 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day — and rate-limiting the worst sites to 1,000 a minute

2026-08-14Gadgets

Google published Q1 2026 figures for its notification abuse work: automatic permission revocation for inactive sites, HTTP 429s past a threshold, and network-level analysis of coordinated service workers.