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Prevent accidental disclosures with new Reply All BCC warnings in Gmail

To help protect your privacy and ensure intentional communication, we are introducing a new caution notification in Gmail. This feature is designed to prevent accidental information disclosure by alerting users when they are about to "Reply All" to a thread where they were originally BCC’ed.

Previously, users might inadvertently reveal their presence on a confidential thread by hitting "Reply All" while BCC'ed. With this update, Gmail will now display a prominent warning prompt to confirm your intent before the message is sent to all recipients, ensuring that your participation remains private unless you choose otherwise.


Getting started

  • Admins: This feature is available by default.
  • End users: This feature is available by default and will trigger automatically when a BCC'ed recipient attempts to "Reply All" on a thread.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts.

Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz

Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes.

With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose.

Gemini then generates a quiz incorporating details from any files you reference, with appropriate quiz settings, including correct answers for each question. Gemini supports different question types like multiple choice, grid, checkboxes, and grid question types.

You can preview the quiz after it's generated, and adjust the content of the generated quiz after inserting it, as needed.

Getting started


Users can create a quiz using a prompt and pdf file with Gemini in Google Forms

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard, and Plus
  • Education: Education Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI, Pro, and Ultra
  • Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning

Resources

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 152 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 152.0.7977.8 contains our usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore - please head to the Chromium blog to learn more!

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome

Chrome for Android Update

   Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 151 (151.0.7922.71) for Android. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. 

This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.


Android releases contain the same security fixes as their corresponding Desktop releases (Windows & Mac: 151.0.7922.71/72, Linux: 151.0.7922.71) unless otherwise noted.

Harry Souders

Launching Structured Data Files v10.1

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Structured Data Files v10.1. All users can now use v10.1 when downloading and uploading SDFs in the Display & Video 360 interface.

SDF v10.1 includes the following changes:

  • The ability to specify whether a YouTube video asset identified in a Video ID or Related Videos column contains content that was created or edited with AI. Read more about AI labeling in ads using SDF.
  • Support for digital out-of-home Insertion Order and Line Item resources.
  • New columns identifying the Display & Video 360 creatives in use by ads and ad groups.
  • Updated options for the Inventory Mode column of Line Item files.

See the release notes for the details on the changes in v10.1. If you are using a version previous to v10, it is now deprecated. Follow the instructions in our migration guide to migrate to v10 from any available version.

If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, please reach out to us on our “Google Advertising and Measurement Community” Discord server.