It takes deep, below-the-navel brazen audacity to take on Google in online search. Just ask Microsoft, DuckDuckGo, Brave and the slew of other search engines that have tried to scrape away at Google’s near 90% global market share. It takes a kick in the head to think Google would sell Chrome, its wildly popular web browser. It seems that AI …
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A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin …
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In a move just slightly atypical of an IP-protective company like Google, an accessory it never officially released is now showing up across online retailers — unannounced, unsupported, and actually kind of awesome. Say hello (again) to the Pixel Tablet Pen, the stylus that was supposed to launch alongside the Pixel Tablet but got quietly scrapped before hitting store shelves. …
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Google says its AI search features aren’t tanking website traffic despite recent reports suggesting otherwise. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid says click volume from the search engine has remained “relatively stable” when compared to the same time last year — though some types of websites are getting more clicks and others are getting …
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Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It’s a protocol that’s supposed to be “HTML for the Agentic Web,” offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embarrassing security flaw comes in the early stages of Microsoft deploying …
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Microsoft has announced a brand-new overhaul coming to the Edge web browser today that transforms it into an AI-powered experience dubbed “Copilot Mode.” The company says this is a new experimental feature that’s designed to make browsing the web easier with AI as a collaborator. “It doesn’t just give you endless tabs to sift through but works with you as …
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Beyond AI Overviews and AI Mode, Google is working on “Web Guide” to better organize Search results into categories with additional context and insights. Simply, “Web Guide groups web links in helpful ways.” There are headers and summaries before you see two or so links, with the ability to load “More.” The goal is to make it “easier to find …
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