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An anonymous Vancouver school guidance counselor told Associated Press that the Gaggle monitoring software “is good for catching suicide and self-harm” risks, but students then look for workarounds once they’re caught. An AP investigation found that many students’ Gaggle incident documents shared by the district weren’t protected and could be read by anyone with a link.

One of the malicious apps masqueraded as a file manager and had more than 10 downloads, according to the cybersecurity firm Lookout. The app contained Android spyware called KoSpy, which Lookout attributes to the North Korean hacking group APT37. It’s capable of collecting a device’s SMS messages, call logs, location, files, and more.

Android Authority spotted a new beta feature to delete all your passwords, passkeys, and other data from the tool in one go, rather than removing them individually.

The app now lets you remove every photo uploaded to the cloud from a specific device, without deleting the images from local storage. It turns off backup too. That’s better than previous options, which only let you remove photos individually, or delete them from both the cloud and your device.

That’s according to legal filings seen by The New York Times, which says Google can’t own more than 15 percent of the AI startup, and has no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights. Google has invested a total of $3 billion into Anthropic so far, and it plans to invest $750 million more in September, the NYT reports.

Google made the change to the feature, which adds app integrations to Gemini, in a beta version of the Google app for Android last week, later mentioning it in a Workspace weekly recap published Friday.

That’s one of the minor changes the Justice Department made to its proposed final judgement in its antitrust case. The DOJ Antitrust Division is still operating under an acting chief as President Donald Trump’s nominee Gail Slater awaits confirmation. But so far, the government made only small tweaks to its asks based on discovery. It’s no longer asking that Google divest AI investments, for example, but that it give a heads up on future ones.

Google’s new affordable phone has leaked repeatedly already, but it’s back again in new images shared by Evan Blass on X. They’re mostly marketing images and renders of the purple model — supposedly dubbed “Iris” — and closely match the design we’ve seen before, complete with an almost perfectly flat camera bump.

Meta AI fans on Android will soon be able to get to the chatbot more quickly via WhatsApp. A widget is in the works offering direct shortcuts to open the chat with the AI, send an image to it, or begin a voice chat. Some WhatsApp beta users already have the widgets available, though no date’s been set for an official launch.

The company, called Dynatomics, aims to use large language models to “create highly optimized designs for a wide variety of objects and then have a factory build them,” according to a report from The Information.

The circular account icon at the top right of the browser has been updated for Chrome Enterprise users. Companies can now add the workplace name beside their staffer’s user icon — making it easier to identify for people who jump between several Google accounts.

The keyboard app’s latest beta transforms its rectangular keys into... circles, as spotted earlier by Android Authority. It kind of looks like a digital version of Logitech’s Pop Keys keyboard, which isn’t all that pleasant to type on.

The feature, which rolls out in the US this week, will let you try on different looks, like “soft glam” or “spring makeup,” as well as shop for the products that go along with it.

As Bloomberg reports:

If you share photos with a partner on Android, you’ll now be able to choose to have screenshots or photos from other apps automatically shared to that library. Google originally stopped this functionality in November, but adding this toggle to be able to do so in response to feedback from users.