Tech News Roundup — July 17, 2026 (NOON)

Midday tech roundup: only two fresh items crossed the wire since the AM edition — both from Pplware. The European Commission escalated its DMA campaign against Google with a new order requiring the company to expose Android and Search plumbing to rival AI assistants, while Microsoft quietly closed a Secure Boot vulnerability that had lurked in Windows for the better part of a decade.

Google & Android

• EU forces Google to share Android and Search with rival AI assistants. The European Commission handed Google a fresh set of DMA decisions demanding that the company open its Android platform and web-search infrastructure to competing AI assistants. Brussels says Google spent years stonewalling interoperability requests and that the new measures are necessary to stop the company from locking rivals out of the AI-era stack. [Pplware]

Security / CVE

• Microsoft patches a 10-year-old Windows flaw that enabled stealthy attacks. Microsoft shipped a fix for a Secure Boot vulnerability that had been present in Windows for more than a decade without anyone noticing. The bug let attackers compromise the boot chain in ways that left virtually no trace, and the patch landed quietly in this month’s cumulative update. [Pplware]

Tech News roundup compiled from the TT-RSS Tech feed. 2 fresh articles from 1 source summarised.