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Google calls DOJ antitrust remedy proposal a threat to privacy, an attack on US tech leadership

Google has strongly criticized a proposal filed by the US Department of Justice as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit regarding the company’s search distribution agreements. “The DOJ had a chance to propose remedies related to the issue in this case: search distribution agreements with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone OEMs, and wireless carriers,” Google said in a blog post. “Instead, DOJ …

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Google faces regulatory pressure, may be forced to sell Chrome

India TV News

Google may be facing the possibility of selling its Chrome web browser due to accusations of anti-trust violations. The U.S. Department of Justice could exert pressure on Google's parent company, Alphabet, to divest the Chrome browser. Understanding Google’s monopoly In addition to the Android operating system, Google also manages services like the Google Chrome browser and AI Gemini. In terms …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

One Tech Tip: Replacing passwords with passkeys for an easier login experience

Associated Press

LONDON — If you’re tired of memorizing passwords, then give passkeys a try. And because passkeys use cryptographic security, they also can’t brute force their way into your account by trying passwords exposed in previous data breaches or guessing them. Some 20% of the world’s top 100 websites now accept passkeys, said Andrew Shikiar, CEO of the FIDO Alliance, an …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

AI industry is influencing the world. Mozilla adviser Abeba Birhane is challenging its core values

Associated Press

“Scaling up” is a catchphrase in the artificial intelligence industry as tech companies rush to improve their AI systems with ever-bigger sets of internet data. It’s also a red flag for Mozilla’s Abeba Birhane, an AI expert who for years has challenged the values and practices of her field and the influence it’s having on the world. Her latest research …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Apple Really Wants You To Stop Using Chrome And Switch To Safari Browser For Your Safety

News 18

Apple focuses heavily on privacy across all its products and some of its ads for iPhones have talked about this aspect. But now the company is raising the privacy and safety pitch for the Safari web browser, probably for the first time. The pitch to choose Safari over Chrome or Edge revolves around the plot of how Google and other …

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7 months, 1 week ago

From eating rocks to putting glue on your pizza and smoking while pregnant, here's what Google's new AI tool is (incorrectly) telling users to do

Daily Mail

It looks like Google's latest attempt at making people's lives easier with artificial intelligence is backfiring. The tech giant's new tool, 'AI Overviews', gives users AI-powered summaries of search results on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser. In response to the search 'cheese not sticking to pizza', Google suggests adding 'non-toxic glue' to the sauce to give it more …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google, Justice during closing arguments

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling competition and innovation repeatedly indicated Thursday that he believes it would be difficult for a formidable rival search engine to emerge. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta went back and forth with Google’s lead litigator, John Schmidtlein, during the first day of the trial’s closing arguments, …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Google delays cookie phase-out following regulatory pushback

Live Mint

Google will miss its end-of-year target for changing the way advertising is delivered in its dominant Chrome web browser, a setback in its yearslong efforts to improve consumer privacy on the internet. Google said Tuesday it would no longer be able to eliminate third-party cookies on its original timeline, citing “ongoing challenges related to reconciling divergent feedback from the industry, …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mozilla lays off 60 employees, and here is the reason

India TV News

Mozilla, the developer of Firefox browser are reportedly laying off 60 employees from the team, as the company plans to scale back its investment in several products. Mozilla said in a memo that it will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox” and to do so, it will bring together Content, Pocket and the AI/ML teams supporting content with the …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Best road bikes: Guide to high-performance cycling, top 10 picks

Hindustan Times

Embarking on the open road with the wind in your hair and the freedom to explore is an exhilarating experience that every cycling enthusiast cherishes. Specifications of Urban Terrain Bolt Cycle/Bicycle MTB 27.5T: Bike Type: Mountain Bike Age Range : Youth Brand: Urban Terrain Number of Speeds: 1 Colour : White Pros Cons Comfortable Adjustable Saddle Height Limited At-Home Workout …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Govt issues critical security warning for Mozilla Firefox, ask users to update browser immediately

India Today

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has issued an urgent warning to Mozilla product users regarding a series of critical vulnerabilities that could leave their devices vulnerable to hacker attacks. CERT-In's security note cites that the highlighted vulnerabilities stem from various coding flaws that could allow attackers to take control of devices, steal sensitive data, or disrupt normal operations. The …

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1 year, 1 month ago

YouTube blames Ad blockers for Firefox slowdown, says users will face issue with videos if they block ads

India Today

Over the past few days, numerous Reddit users have expressed concerns about YouTube introducing video delays when using Mozilla Firefox and certain other browsers. To address recent video playback issues, YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton clarified in an email that "In the past week, users employing ad blockers may have encountered suboptimal viewing experiences, including delays in loading, regardless of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

This is how much Google pays Apple for the money it makes through Safari

India Today

Google is currently facing an antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Justice Department, alleging that the tech giant is illegally maintaining a monopoly in online search and related advertising markets. Although the exact amount Google pays has never been officially disclosed by either Google or the smartphone makers, a recent testimony by an main economics expert for the Alphabet Inc. unit, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Google Really Doesn’t Want to Be Here

Slate

If there’s something that Google wants you to know, it’s that the defendant in the United States’ most significant antitrust trial in 25 years is not a search monopoly established through unfair, anti-competitive means—and if people get that impression, it’s only because all the other search engines suck. … Often consumers don’t even realize they are making a choice by …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Develop indigenous Web browser, grab cash prizes

The Hindu

Cash prizes amounting to ₹3.4 crore are being promised to developers who help create an indigenous Indian web browser “for the world”, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced on Wednesday. An important caveat is that browser ideas entered into this competition will have to trust the Controller of Certifying Authorities, the Indian government’s authority for digital signatures, including …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Goodbye Google? India to develop own browser to take on Chrome, Firefox in new Atmanirbhar bid

Firstpost

MeiTY has launched the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge and plans on launching its own internet browser. For this, it has called Indian startups and software developers to build a web browser that is compliant with India’s security certification The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has inaugurated the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge, a programme to support indigenously built …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Seema Haider 'Auditioned' for Film on Udaipur Tailor's Beheading, to Play RAW Agent

News 18

Seema Haider, the 30-year-old Pakistani national who has been hitting headlines since May after her illegal entry in India, may soon be seen in a movie ‘A Tailor Murder Story,’ based on the murder of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal by Islamic radicals. A team of Jani Firefox Production House met Seema in Greater Noida and auditioned her for the film. …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Seema Haider to play RAW agent in Bollywood movie? Directors take audition

India TV News

Seema Haider, who came to India illegally and married a man named Sachin Meena, has a 'filmy' love story just like a Bollywood film. Directors Jayanth Sinha and Bharat Singh took Seema's audition for a role in the upcoming project titled A Tailor Murder Story. Both Seema Haider and the production house is currently awaiting Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Developers criticize Google's web environment integrity API proposal

India TV News

Google is facing criticism from Internet software developers over its proposed Web Environment Integrity API for Chrome. Employees from web browsers Vivaldi, Brave, and Firefox have taken a stance against the WEI proposal, likening it to digital rights management for websites. As of now, Google's WEI API proposal is in its early development stage, and changes may occur based on …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How Nature Metaphors Help Big Tech Duck Scrutiny

Slate

In 2006, at an industry conference, then-Google-CEO Eric Schmidt introduced a now ubiquitous term: “the cloud.” Here was a grand technological shift, Schmidt explained, that would let information exist simultaneously nowhere and everywhere. Sue Thomas—a writer and scholar of digital culture—argues that bringing nature into the lexicon lets technologists position their domain as “a real and integrated extension to human …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Firefox's anti-tracking protection now on Android: Know how it works

India TV News

Mozilla Firefox's Total Cookie Protection feature, which helps to protect users from being tracked by trackers has forayed into Android. In 2021, TCP was introduced, but it was only available in Firefox's enhanced tracking protection mode, so users manually selected that security level to prevent cookie-based tracking. Last year, the company made TCP available and turned on by default in …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Government has a ‘high severity’ warning for Mozilla Firefox users: Details

Live Mint

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has issued an advisory for Mozilla Firefox users. Marked as ‘high’ severity rating, the cyber security agency said that a vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox browser can allow a remote attacker to perform arbitrary code execution on the targeted system. CERT-In’s advisory states that this vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox due to use-after-free error …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Mozilla Firefox introduces three new extensions for Android web browser: Details

Live Mint

Mozilla Firefox, a web browser, has received three new extensions for its Android web browser. The extensions received by Mozilla Firefox include hiding the user email address while signing up to the website, removing tracking elements before sharing a URL and listening to an article. Moreover, the browser has added a ‘ClearUTL’ extension which will allow users to remove their …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Can Microsoft succeed in clawing back the search leadership from Google?

The Hindu

Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to Google with its $10 billion check to OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Microsoft is clearly looking to disrupt Internet search as we know it, and in that process, plans to claw back the browser market share it lost to Google more than a decade ago. That’s when the …

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Google calls DOJ antitrust remedy proposal a threat to privacy, an attack on US tech leadership

Google faces regulatory pressure, may be forced to sell Chrome

One Tech Tip: Replacing passwords with passkeys for an easier login experience

AI industry is influencing the world. Mozilla adviser Abeba Birhane is challenging its core values

Apple Really Wants You To Stop Using Chrome And Switch To Safari Browser For Your Safety

From eating rocks to putting glue on your pizza and smoking while pregnant, here's what Google's new AI tool is (incorrectly) telling users to do

Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google, Justice during closing arguments

Google delays cookie phase-out following regulatory pushback

Mozilla lays off 60 employees, and here is the reason

Best road bikes: Guide to high-performance cycling, top 10 picks

Govt issues critical security warning for Mozilla Firefox, ask users to update browser immediately

YouTube blames Ad blockers for Firefox slowdown, says users will face issue with videos if they block ads

This is how much Google pays Apple for the money it makes through Safari

Google Really Doesn’t Want to Be Here

Develop indigenous Web browser, grab cash prizes

Goodbye Google? India to develop own browser to take on Chrome, Firefox in new Atmanirbhar bid

Seema Haider 'Auditioned' for Film on Udaipur Tailor's Beheading, to Play RAW Agent

Seema Haider to play RAW agent in Bollywood movie? Directors take audition

Developers criticize Google's web environment integrity API proposal

How Nature Metaphors Help Big Tech Duck Scrutiny

Firefox's anti-tracking protection now on Android: Know how it works

Government has a ‘high severity’ warning for Mozilla Firefox users: Details

Mozilla Firefox introduces three new extensions for Android web browser: Details

Can Microsoft succeed in clawing back the search leadership from Google?