Google Chrome abandons plans to phase out third-party cookies
Google's u-turn leaves digital advertising industry in limbo
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell
The big picture: If Google really is forced to sell Chrome – as proposed by the DOJ after the company was ruled a monopoly in its antitrust trial – OpenAI could emerge as a potential buyer. The ChatGPT maker has admitted it's interested in acquiring the world's most popular browser and turning it into an "AI-first" experience.
Apple and Meta hit with combined $797 million fine for violating EU's DMA antitrust rules
Fines follow Trump's warning of retaliation against nations targeting american companies
AI is enabling cybercriminals to act quickly - and with little technical knowledge, Microsoft warns
Fake stores, deepfakes, and chatbots: AI fuels new wave of scams
Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"
Who was the tech exec that made this overconfident claim 20 years ago?
New Star Wars movie starring Ryan Gosling set for 2027, Lucasfilm confirms
Star Wars: Starfighter takes place 5 years after The Rise of Skywalker
ChatGPT gets scarily good at guessing photo locations, sparking doxxing concerns
Simple photos could reveal real-world locations
HP agrees to $4 million settlement over inflated PC prices on its website
Similar lawsuits have been filed against other major retailers
Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup
"We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half" says Google
Google offers free Gemini AI tools and 2TB storage to US college students
AI companies are fiercely competing to win over the highly sought-after student userbase
Discord begins experimenting with face scanning for age verification
The test is limited to the UK and Australia where limitation to online platforms is pretty strict already
EU provides burner phones to officials traveling to US amid espionage concerns
Washington isn't Beijing, but you can never be too careful
OpenAI is quietly working on a social network similar to Twitter, powered by ChatGPT
One goal of OpenAI's prototype is to gather real-time user data
New Chrome update to fix a long-standing bug in user privacy for visited links
The problem has plagued the web for 20 years
Mark Zuckerberg considered deleting everyone's Facebook friends in 2022, admits platform's focus has shifted
"The 'friend' part has gone down quite a bit"
Google Chrome update for Android expands on-screen space for websites
But Google is going to introduce compatibility issues on its mobile OS, again
Netflix is testing AI search powered by OpenAI
Search for titles based on your mood
Four years in, Meta has burned through $45 billion chasing its metaverse dream
Internal chaos, unqualified leadership, and lack of a clear plan has allegedly contributed to losses
ChatGPT nears one billion users as Ghibli-style AI images double weekly actives
ChatGPT was the world's most downloaded app in March
PC gamers report hackers have taken over Star Wars Battlefront II
Battlefront II multiplayer modes are unplayable, EA silent on fix
Sophisticated bot uses OpenAI to bypass filters, flooding over 80,000 websites with spam
AkiraBot exploits contact forms and live chat widgets with "personalized" messages
Whistleblower tells Congress Facebook worked with China on censorship and data access
"It's been happening for years, covered up by lies, and continues to this day"
Researcher uncovers network of risky Chrome extensions with over 4 million installs
Many ironically promise to scan Chrome for sketchy browser extensions
Microsoft says Edge 134 is up to 9% faster with real-world performance boosts
New features include an AI-powered scareware blocker
Founder of Nate app faces fraud charge for using "AI" that was really human call center workers
The only thing artificial was the claim