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Imagine settling in for Netflix, only to be slapped with the dreaded "proxy or VPN detected." Minutes later, your bank login ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) browser wars, which have periodically simmered in the past few months, now witness the arrival of the most serious player yet. Google is bringing Gemini in Chrome to ...

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...

If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft by sending your victim a calendar event. You might also have been ...

The thick client is making a comeback. Here’s how next-generation local databases like PGlite and RxDB are bringing feature-rich data storage to the browser. Once upon a time, we had mainframes with ...

In brief: Age verification scanners usually require three-dimensional movement to confirm that users aren't attempting to bypass them with photos. However, animated ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing campaign dubbed KongTuke that used a malicious Google Chrome extension masquerading as an ad blocker to deliberately crash the web ...

Hackers over the past six months have relied increasingly more on the browser-in-the-browser (BitB) method to trick users into providing Facebook account credentials. Trellix researchers monitoring ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Trellix Inc. warns that Facebook phishing scams are becoming significantly more sophisticated, as attackers increasingly abuse legitimate cloud ...

IRS Direct File, a free online system for filing federal taxes, has been scrapped for 2026. Almost 300,000 people used IRS Direct File in 2025. So, are they out of luck, along with millions of others ...