An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The compromised package…
DuckDuckGo is continuing to build on its AI-free search experience by launching new extensions for Chrome and Firefox. These extensions make it easier to set the company’s AI-free search page to be the default search…
Cookie pop-ups are a source of irritation for many of us. Almost every website we visit asks us to agree to store cookie files on our computer. While the intention is to improve privacy, the…
Yesterday, I reported on a Chrome extension, which I’d personally been using for years, that (presumably) got sold off and started hijacking my web traffic. I lamented that Google seems particularly susceptible to this trick,…
As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can…
Email platforms in web browsers are very popular and easy to use. However, Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo each have their pitfalls. Many marketing messages, spam, or phishing attempts use tracking pixels, which are designed to…
If you’ve been dragging your feet about updating to the latest version of Apple’s Home architecture, good news (sort of), you’re getting a brief reprieve. In an updated support document spotted by MacRumors, Apple says…
Google seems to be all-in on its “AI” search results, to the detriment of the web at large and no small amount of users. It seems to be the end result of years of diminishing…
The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent attack success rate when browser use operated without safety mitigations. One example involved a malicious email that instructed Claude to…
Yesterday, Anthropic unveiled Claude for Chrome, a brand-new browser extension that acts as an AI agent. In short, the extension allows you to chat with Claude in a side panel while using Chrome, and Claude…