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Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension
Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently appears to have begun snaffling screenshots of users' page activity and transmitting them to a remote server without their knowledge – and Google has yet to take it down.…
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders
Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute.…
Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks
Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.…
FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached
FydeOS is an alternative to ChromeOS Flex, but with a few significant differences – including Google-account-free operation.…
The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety
opinion Implementation of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act is giving internet users around the globe – including those in U.S. states moving to enact their own age verification laws – real-time proof that such laws impinge on everyone's rights to speak, read, and view freely. …