Hands up who wants to sign up to receive advertising as they browse the internet? Probably no-one, and yet that’s exactly what the new Brave browser is asking its users to do.
Tag Archives: Google
Offline Android apps get new security check
How do Android users know whether an app is genuine?
Google Chromecast and Home Speaker can leak location data to websites
Two Google products have a design weakness that could reveal their users’ locations.
Researchers claim Chrome bug bounty paid to the wrong people
Yubico has been drawn into a rare public spat over how the discovery of a security flaw affecting it products was credited.
Google locks out extensions that don’t come from its Chrome Web Store
Time’s up for Chrome extensions from third-party sites.
The Google Pixelbook power button is now a 2FA token
The Pixelbook’s power button is a 2FA token, which is great, and almost nobody noticed, which isn’t.
Google: We won’t cause “overall harm” with our AI
After the Project Maven-inspired employee revolt, Google has released a set of AI principles and said it’s withdrawing from the contract.
Apple says no to Facebook’s tracking
Apple will stop Facebook and advertisers from tracking users across multiple sites (cross-site tracking), running their ads or embedding content such as ‘like’ buttons.
Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible.
Bizarre Chrome and Firefox flaw exposed Facebook details
Researchers have discovered a weakness in the way Chrome and Firefox interact with CSS3 that could have caused them to leak usernames, profile pictures and likes from sites such as Facebook.