Technology News for Friday 9th May 2025

1. Google Expands AI Tools to Combat Evolving Scam Tactics

The company has integrated its on-device large language model (LLM), Gemini Nano, into Chrome's Enhanced Protection mode on desktop. This model analyzes websites in real time to detect and warn users about threats such as tech support scams that use pop- ...

2. Do You Really Have to Stop Using Windows 10?

Microsoft will stop supporting the decade-old operating system on October 14, 2025. There's one hiccup, though: Even though Windows 11 is a free update, more people still use Windows 10 than Windows ...

3. Doom The Dark Ages Review: Blood, Steel and Burnout

Some point after battling demons for billions of years, he's transported to Argent D'Nur, a different realm inhabited by humans who fight against the hordes of Hell in this epic war with futuristic weapons with a medieval motif.

4. Google's Unbeatable Pixel Update Leaves Other Phones Behind

Google has warned that Android phones are again under attack, with another serious vulnerability leaving devices exposed to hackers. Within 24 hours, it confirmed that all compatible Pixels “will receive these software updates starting today, and the ...

5. The future for Palestinians

After 19 months of war in Gaza, the future for Palestinians is uncertain. One advocate for a two-state solution granting freedom and independence to Palestine is Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the head of Realign for Palestine and a resident senior fellow at ...

6. AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound

Tuochao Chen, a University of Washington doctoral student, recently toured a museum in Mexico. Chen doesn't speak Spanish, so he ran a translation app on his phone and pointed the microphone at the tour guide. But even in a museum's relative quiet, ...

7. Vaccines Still Matter – Global Healthy Living Foundation Sees Strong Patient Engagement Despite Current Negative ...

...Surprising uptake among chronically ill patients, despite continuing anti-vaccine rhetoric from many media, individuals and government sources. Share. GHLF's coverage of the World Vaccine Congress, held in Washington ...

8. The Download: AI headphone translation, and the link between microbes and our behavior

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A new AI translation system for headphones clones multiple voices simultaneously. Advertisement.

9. Pulling water from thin air in the Atacama

The device uses a water-absorbing hydrogel–salt material in a carefully designed architecture and produces 0.6 L of water per m 2 per day at a relative humidity ranging from 15% to 38% between day and night in the desert.

10. Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second

Scientists at Europe's famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal. By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine. Gold nuggets on black. LHC experiments don't create large gold nuggets — but some ...

11. 'Grand Theft Auto VI' Delay Impacts Every Game Company

Last week, Rockstar Games officially delayed Grand Theft Auto VI from fall 2025 to May 2026. Reactions to this news were thoughtful, calm and measured. Just kidding. Gamers went nuts. The r/ ...

12. GoldenEye 007, Tamagotchi, Quake inducted into Video Game Hall of Fame

The 2025 class celebrates games that changed the industry and defined generations. Quake co-creator John Romero praised the game's legacy during the ceremony. LOS ANGELES - ...