Firefox’s New Boss Has a Very Old-School Plan: 'Build a Better Browser' I spoke with Firefox's head, Ajit Varma, about why the company is returning to fundamentals after years of decline.

To win back users, the new Firefox head's plan is deceptively simple: "Build better features, build a better browser, and then people will use it."

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Google Chrome has a secret PDF tool that everyone should use You can annotate PDFs using the PDF viewer in Chrome, here’s how

You may not be aware that Chrome has a built-in PDF viewer, but it’s worth getting familiar with. It provides a simple way to view PDF files without opening a second app and also lets you annotate them.

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Firefox 150.0 is out with improved Split View, new features for PDF editor, and more Mozilla is rolling out Firefox 150 with multiple improvements and new features for Split View, PDF Editor, tabs, and more.

Mozilla has released Firefox 150, bringing various quality-of-life improvements and new features, including better Split View, new capabilities for the built-in PDF editor, tab sharing improvements, profile management for Windows 10 users, and more.

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Windows 11 feels modern, but many out‑of‑box settings push services, tracking, and clutter. We list 14 defaults worth changing. Out of the box, Windows 11 prioritizes services and automation, but not every default setting works in your favor.

Windows 11 ships ready for cloud and recommendations; this guide shows the 14 default settings to change for better privacy, performance, and clarity.

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Chrome tracks more than you realize. Here’s how to take back your privacy While Chrome is a popular browser, it tends to collect a lot of data about its users. Here is how to help minimize what it collects and make your browsing experience more private.

Google Chrome collects extensive user data for targeted advertising, even in incognito mode, raising significant privacy concerns. Users can reduce tracking in many ways, or revert to a privacy-focused alternative.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release for April is a whopper Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools.

The April Patch Tuesday release involves 165 updates and roughly 340 unique CVEs from Microsoft — including two zero-days, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild.

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Charles Schwab to launch direct bitcoin, ether trading to compete with Robinhood Charles Schwab is rolling out crypto trading, allowing clients to buy bitcoin and ether in the coming weeks.

Charles Schwab, one of the largest brokerages in the world with more than $11 trillion in client assets, has made bitcoin trading available to its clients.

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Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched Three Defender zero-days exploited since April 10, 2026, enabling privilege escalation and DoS, forcing isolation of affected systems.

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems.

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Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”...

Thunderbolt is being sold by Firefox-maker Mozilla as a front-end client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure without relying on cloud-based third-party services.

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Google Chrome makes it easier to wrangle different tabs in AI Mode The next time you use AI Mode in Chrome and click on a link, the chatbot will open a new side-by-side view that allows you to both browse the webpage and ask questions of AI Mode.

Starting today, Google is rolling out an AI Mode update to users in the US that makes the tool better at interacting and understanding tabs.

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Google Chrome lacks browser fingerprinting defenses : Browser fingerprinting is everywhere

Google markets Chrome by citing its superior safety features. But, according to a privacy consultant, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.

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Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no : Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.

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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users 108 Chrome extensions routed stolen Google and Telegram data to shared C2 infrastructure, impacting 20,000 users.

Researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse.

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Google will demote websites that hijack your browser's back button In a post on the Google Developers blog, the company said it is designating back button hijacking as a malicious practice. It added that engaging in any...

Google has announced that it will begin penalizing websites that interfere with the normal functioning of a web browser's back button, aka back button hijacking.

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Microsoft Is Already Pulling Back On Its Windows Copilot AI Push - SlashGear A Windows 11 Insider build from April has removed Copilot branding from apps such as Notepad, although the AI features themselves are still present.

Microsoft has begun stripping Copilot branding from several apps and is reportedly working on major improvements to Windows 11 for deployment in later updates. Here's what's happened so far, and which improvements are in the works.

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Google introduces "Skills" in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable You can save custom prompts you find useful or grab a premade Skill from Google's library.

The latest AI addition to Chrome comes in the form of “Skills,” reusable Gemini prompts you can access while browsing with a single click.

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I finally quit Chrome for an open source browser, and I'm not looking back I wish I had switched to this open source browser sooner

Are Brave browser's powerful default privacy controls (blocks ads, fingerprinting, and third-party cookies by default), built-in search engine, and Speedreader mode enough to make you turn your back on Chrome?

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Vivaldi for Android finally kills the need for external PDF apps Stop jumping between apps just to read a document. Vivaldi for Android's latest build is here to supercharge your workflow with built-in PDF support.

The big feature introduced in the latest Vivaldi browser dev build for Android is the native PDF reader, allowing you to open PDF files from web pages in Vivaldi’s browser tabs instead of needing to use a separate PDF reader app.

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Adobe rolls out emergency fix for Acrobat, Reader zero-day flaw Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December.

Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December.

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6 ways I finally stopped spam from taking over my Gmail inbox I found better ways to clean up my inbox

These six changes can finally help you stop spam from taking over your Gmail and made it feel manageable again.

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Here's my favorite email trick for cleaning up inbox clutter - automatically Is your inbox overflowing with ads, newsletters, and social media updates? This one feature that's built into most email solutions will fix that for you.

Is your inbox overflowing with ads, newsletters, and social media updates? This one feature that's built into most email solutions will fix that for you.

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France has announced it’s moving some of its government systems away from Windows towards the open-source operating system Linux, following Denmark and parts of Germany announcing similar departures from Microsoft products earlier this year.

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Google has rolled out a new Chrome browser feature which should make stealing session cookies for use in infostealer malware attacks a thing of the past.

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Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.

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Google Chrome adds infostealer protection against session cookie theft Google has rolled out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) protection in Chrome 146 for Windows, designed to block info-stealing malware from harvesting session cookies.

Google has rolled out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) protection in Chrome 146 for Windows, designed to block info-stealing malware from harvesting session cookies.

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After almost twenty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is logging off of Twitter, citing the math not working out -- posts today receive less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago.

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Barely two weeks after Apple announced the MacBook Neo, Microsoft unveiled a plan to fix Windows 11 that involves focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.

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I almost ignored the Gemini button in Chrome, but now it saves me hours every week The Gemini Ask button is more useful than it looks

Instead of opening new Chrome tabs to look things up, summarize articles, or make sense of something unfamiliar, you can save time by asking Gemini right there without breaking your focus.

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Windows is finally killing off the Control Panel Speaking to Windows users on X this week, Microsoft's Director of Design, March Rogers, said the company is working to address several UI issues across Windows 11....

A senior Microsoft engineer has confirmed that the company plans to phase out the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app in the near future. File Explorer and the Start Menu will also receive UI overhauls and performance improvements.

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Google's AI Summaries Are Regularly Lying to You, Report Finds Even when they're right, linked sources don't always support the summary's claims.

A recent investigation found that Google's AI Overviews search results have an accuracy rate of 90%. Although that's a high margin, it also means tens of millions of search results every hour are potentially flat-out wrong.

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