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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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, 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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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These six changes can finally help you stop spam from taking over your Gmail and made it feel manageable again.
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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 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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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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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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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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Google announced on Tuesday that Chrome users will have the option to enable vertical tabs, which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups.
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Firefox recently added a free built-in VPN to its desktop browser, but access to the feature is rolling out gradually. The free, desktop-only VPN will initially be available to users in the UK, the USA, France and Germany.
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Vivaldi browser has come up with a steady stream of clever interface enhancements that actually help you get stuff accomplished more efficiently (and without the very real risk of hallucination-induced embarrassment).
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Firefox’s biggest interface redesign in 6 years features AI integration, enhanced customization, & privacy tools built right into the browser. Firefox aims to differentiate itself by offering user control over AI features while maintaining privacy focus.
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