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Google is expanding Android Automotive from the infotainment screen into the broader non-safety "brain" of software-defined vehicles. With its new Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, the in-car experience will feel "much more cohesive and the latest features will reach your driveway faster," Matt Crowley, Android Automotive's group product manager, writes in a blog post. "From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," Crowley adds. The Verge reports: With its new software, Google is promising faster over-the-air software updates, better voice assistants, and more proactive vehicle maintenance alerts. Non-driving functions like climate control, lighting, and seating adjustment would fall under Android's control. And the system would move beyond basic infotainment to create a unified ecosystem for features like remote cabin conditioning, digital key management, and personalized driver profiles. For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.

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Concern for the 66-year-old, an eight-time winner of Mr. Olympia, has swelled since his children revealed that their dad's kidney is 'failing.'

A new investigation into the Georgia Guidestones bombing suggests conspiracy theories, not just a single suspect, may explain why the monument was destroyed.

Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing Bradrick Wells, also 27, during an argument in his high-end car in La Plata, Maryland on March 22.

Shannon, now 26, from Manchester, was diagnosed with psoriasis - an autoimmune condition affecting more than a million Britons - at just 12 years old.

Ipswich Town have insisted they are a 'welcoming organisation' in response to a backlash after the Championship club hosted Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party at Portman Road.

Nicola Peltz shared a photo of the gushing love note she woke up to from her husband Brooklyn Beckham on Tuesday.

In the early hours of last Sunday morning, Kelly Osbourne could be found giggling with her friend in a hidden-away corner among the plush sofas of the luxurious Broadwick Hotel in Soho.

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy

RSAC 2026  Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…

The weather resistant piece has a striking colour, ideal for a feature piece, and is now on sale

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its generative-AI video creation platform it launched in December 2024. "The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year," reports the Wall Street Journal. CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the Sora Team said in a post on X. "To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We'll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work." Last week, OpenAI announced plans to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a singular desktop "superapp." "We realized we were spreading our efforts across too many apps and stacks, and that we need to simplify our efforts," said CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo. "That fragmentation has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want." This could behind the decision to kill Sora as the company redirects its resources and top talent towards productivity tools that benefit both enterprises and individual users.

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Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

RSAC 2026  Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

New footage reveals the moment that Kendra Duggar was booked into jail after her shocking arrest.

A huge haul of cocaine which was estimated to be worth £80million was seized at a south Essex port.

The actress, best known for her role as villainous Grace Vickers on the ITV soap, shared the news with Instagram followers on Tuesday evening.

Clélia Verdier has vivid memories of giving birth to triplets. The only catch? She was never pregnant, never went into labor and never became a mom. In reality, she was in a medically induced coma.

Kaylum Davis was just 16 when he became the first victim of now notorious fantasist Stacey Sharples - who would go on to become one of the worst recorded sex crime liars in UK criminal history.

They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus

An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens.…

Former world champion Fatima Whitbread has welcomed a 'trailblazing' scheme to support young carers in Brentwood

Arm unveiled its first self-developed data center chip, the AGI CPU, designed for handling agentic AI workloads. The new chip was built in partnership with Meta and manufactured by TSMC. Other customers for the new chip include OpenAI, Cloudflare, SAP, and SK Telecom. Reuters reports: The new chip, called the AGI CPU, will address data-crunching needed for a specific type of AI that is able to act on behalf of users with minimal oversight, instead of responding to queries as part of a chatbot. For years, Arm, majority-owned by Japan's SoftBank Group has relied only on intellectual property for revenue, licensing its designs to companies such as Qualcomm and Nvidia and then collecting a royalty payment based on the number of units sold. "It's a very pivotal moment for the company," CEO Rene Haas said in an interview with Reuters. The new chip will be overseen by Mohamed Awad, head of the company's cloud AI business, and Arm has additional designs in the works that it plans to release at 12- to 18-month intervals. TSMC is fabricating the device on its 3-nanometer technology and is made from two distinct pieces of silicon that operate as a single chip. Arm plans to put it into volume production in the second half of this year but has received test chips that function as expected. In addition to the chip itself, Arm is working with server makers such as Lenovo and Quanta Computer to offer complete systems.

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