Chrome Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution, Browser Crashes

Google released a Chrome security update fixing two high-severity flaws that could enable code execution or crashes via ...

Chrome's AI Extensions Flagged for Data Harvesting in 2026—With Surprising Names

New research by Incogni reveals that over half of AI-branded Google Chrome extensions are harvesting user data.
Fox News

Malicious Chrome extensions caught stealing sensitive data

Chrome extensions are supposed to make your browser more useful, but they've quietly become one of the easiest ways for attackers to spy on what you do online. Security researchers recently uncovered ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials

Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named 'Phantom Shuttle' are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user traffic and steal sensitive data. Both extensions are still present in Chrome's ...
Reuters

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions of fake Google search requests ...
The Verge

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...
BGR

Google Chrome Too Slow? 5 Ways To Speed Up Your Web Browser

If Google Chrome is your primary browser, but has become frustratingly slow at loading pages, switching between multiple tabs, or opening Gmail, then it's time to try a few fixes. Chrome dominates the ...
New York Post

OpenAI launches Atlas web browser to compete with Google Chrome

OpenAI said Tuesday it is introducing its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their ...
Wired

OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome

OpenAI announced on Tuesday it’s rolling out a new internet browser called Atlas that integrates directly with ChatGPT. Atlas includes features like a sidebar window people can use to ask ChatGPT ...
New York Magazine

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...
ZDNet

AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...