Software Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox
Personal Tech Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI Unified UI revamp gives browser a cleaner look while rivals keep wedging assistants into the web
AI + ML Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open
Applications Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice
Security Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law
Security Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online Browser fingerprinting is everywhere
AI + ML I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that
Applications Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers
Software Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want
AI + ML Claude charts a new course with charts, of course Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps
Applications After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over
Software Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe
AI + ML Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details
Research Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking
Software Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality A handy feature you can already try in recent versions
Software Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security
Applications Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance
Legal SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping 'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'
AI + ML Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?
Software Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs
AI + ML Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment 'What we are finding is that people hate AI'
Agentic AI When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter
Software Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web
AI + ML Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up
Software Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
Software Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks
Applications Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants
Research Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date
AI + ML Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting
AI + ML Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic
AI + ML Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
Cyber-crime Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store
AI + ML HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’ Hashtag-do-whatever-I-tell-you
AI + ML Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents AutoGuard uses injection text for good
Security Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029 Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe
Software Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine
Software Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
Software Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive
Cybersecurity Month Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions It can do a lot more than just play 'Eye of the Tiger' daily
Research Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands
Cybersecurity Month OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway 'Trust no AI' says one researcher
AI + ML OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?
Devops Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler
Software Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems
AI + ML Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?
AI + ML New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card For whom the bill tolls
Software Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger 'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company
AI + ML AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content But the cure may ruin the web....
Applications Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots
Applications AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200
Applications Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs
AI + ML Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched
Security Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI CEO says if you buy all your infosec stuff from him, life under assault from bots will be less painful
AI + ML Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web
AI + ML Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion Could the most popular browser change hands?
AI + ML Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it
AI + ML Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders
Software Edge case: Opera claims Microsoft still playing dirty with defaults Brazil is the latest browser battlefield
Software Publishers cry foul over W3C crusade to rid web of third-party cookies Advocacy group tells UK competition watchdog proposal favors Google
AI + ML Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd 'Edge, order two tons of creamed corn...'
Personal Tech Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall No screenshots for you!
OSes Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness
AI + ML Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet Built on Chromium, ironically
Research Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says
Security Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t
Software Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket
Software Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play
Applications Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions
Research Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
Software Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though
Personal Tech Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient
AI + ML AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads 'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'
Software If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next? It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way
Security You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer
Software Alt-browser Flow breezes through web tests, but still far from a daily driver Snappy surfer eyes Apple's EU engine requirements
AI + ML Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser
Applications Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers
AI + ML Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune
Applications Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO
AI + ML AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots
AI + ML We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries
Applications Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too
OSes Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback
Software Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass
AI + ML Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
Personal Tech Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept
Research SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more
Personal Tech Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution
Personal Tech Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it
Public Sector Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote
Applications Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage
Applications Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0
Personal Tech What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work
Applications Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks
Personal Tech Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads
Security Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
