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Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, and access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search “will be entirely off” for K-12 student accounts unless “administrators explicitly turn them on.”

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The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.

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You may have noticed that, after installing a software update on your phone, it started behaving sluggishly, running warm, or consuming battery faster. It can happen on iPhones and Android phones. The good news is that these issues are usually temporary.

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Microsoft ended mainstream Windows 10 support a year ago, but PC upgrades to Windows 11 have ground to a halt. Relief may not come until 2028 or even 2029, as high CPU prices, and high memory prices, keep PC prices up.

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Firefox's newest feature lets you pop out a page - or part of a page - into its own mini window. See why this is incredibly cool.

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The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source Bitcoin payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining “hot wallets” on instances running older versions.

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Microsoft spent October testing a surprisingly useful collection of Windows 11 features. Several changes could make a noticeable difference in how you use your PC. Here are 12 of them.

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Users leveraging Windows devices managed by their organization will soon be able to opt-in to an experience that auto-launches Edge at startup. IT admins will be able to control the opt-in, opt-out, and user-choice configurations available to end-user.

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Is Mozilla Thunderbird the best email app for desktops? It's free, there's no AI, and its unified inboxes and calendars give you everything you need at a glance.

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The patch gap, or the window in time between the appearance of a security fix in the code and the full deployment of that code to most users, affects any critical software that ships to end-user devices like operating systems and web browsers.

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Windows 11 is finally giving you more control over the right-click menu. Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned context menu with better performance and customization options. You can choose which commands appear when you right-click, and which don't.

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Annoyed by Google's AI summaries taking over your search results page? It's only gotten worse. You can't stop AI overviews entirely, but here are a few tricks to make them less obtrusive.

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When searching for an application via the Start menu in Windows 11, users often receive not only local results but also web suggestions. Microsoft now offers a way to disable such web results.

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Microsoft Edge will soon launch faster on Windows 11 by using a feature no other browser has, at least for now. Accelerated app launch is a new feature on Windows 11 that streamlines the process of launching an app.

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The latest version of Firefox fixes 167 security vulnerabilities, most of which are of high severity, while the newest version of Chrome patches 52 flaws, four of which are critical.

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LibreOffice 26.8.2 is packed with more than 30 bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, focusing on improving stability, multimedia playback, and compatibility with legacy file formats.

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Google has announced that from today, Chrome’s enhanced autofill feature can automatically suggest information pulled directly from Gmail as you fill out online forms.

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A new report from the The Browser Choice Alliance identified 10 dark patterns Microsoft adopts to make it harder to choose a browser other than Edge or to subvert a user's choice of an alternative browser after that decision has already been made.

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Opera just made a bold choice: Thanks to the newly proposed WebAI web standard, the company will soon be shipping local AI models with its browser. By doing so, Opera’s AI ensures that your queries and/or data remain on your machine.

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Safari’s Notify Me feature tracks webpage changes, including price drops and product restocks. Here’s how to set up alerts on iPhone and Mac, check device compatibility, and understand the limitations for managed Apple devices.

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