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What a future without browser cookies looks like
As Google and others plan to eliminate third-party search and website trackers, other ways of identifying users and discovering their habits will replace them.
Microsoft Bing, Edge may be exempted from EU’s Digital Market Act: Report
The search engine and the web browser, just like Apple’s iMessage service, could be exempted as they are not dominant enough in their segments.
7 ways to use Microsoft Copilot right
The free version of Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot is available in Windows and on the web. Here’s how to make the most of it.
3 exceptional Android privacy power-ups
Unlock extra privacy power in your Android web experience with these simple but out of sight enhancements.
A powerful Android dark mode enhancement
Ready to take your Android dark mode experience to a whole new level?
Windows 10 cheat sheet
Eight years after releasing Windows 10, Microsoft hasn’t stopped tweaking it. Here’s what you need to know about the most popular version of Windows.
How to go incognito in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari
While incognito mode in any of the big four web browsers offers a measure of privacy, it doesn’t completely hide your tracks online. Here’s how the feature works in each browser, and how to use it.
Microsoft to use Oracle’s OCI Supercluster for Bing conversational searches
Microsoft and Oracle have entered into a multiyear agreement to support inferencing of AI models that are being optimized to power Bing’s conversational searches.
6 fantastic forgotten features in Google’s Chrome Android browser
Save time and work smarter with these excellent out-of-sight options for Chrome on Android.
Google antitrust trial: Pichai concedes that default search boosts market share
Google' star witness in its US antitrust trial, CEO Sundar Pichai, defended the company's business practices but drew attention to the importance of default search contracts as a driver of its market share.
How to activate Chrome's fancy new Android reading enhancer
Who knew the web could look so good?!
Microsoft addresses three zero-days for October’s Patch Tuesday
Microsoft this week rolled out 103 security updates, including for three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Edge.
How to replace Edge as the default browser in Windows — and why you shouldn’t
Here’s how to make Chrome, Firefox, or another browser the primary one in Windows 10 or 11. (But are you sure you want to?)
Microsoft’s Nadella: Google could lock up AI-enabled search
As a witness for the prosecution in the Google antitrust trial, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that Google’s monopoly profits could lock in publishers as AI-enabled search arrives.
Meta challenges ChatGPT with chatbot, OpenAI fires back with new features
Meta this week unveiled a new chatbot connected to the Bing search engine that can have a conversation with a user and create images based on textual inputs.
‘We hoped not to use WebKit at all,' says Vivaldi CEO, as iOS browser ships
With Europe's DMA in place, “the gatekeeper is no longer going to be able to dictate what you use or try to force you to use software you do not like," says Vivaldi chief Jon von Tetzchner.
Google defends search business in biggest US antitrust case of the century so far
Shadows of the Internet Explorer trial of the ’90s loom as the government opens its trial against Google today, accusing the internet giant of illegally maintaining a monopoly on search.
