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Here are three new apps building out the open social web
For the past couple of years, the virtual FediForum conference has offered a glimpse at what’s new in the open social web, with last year’s big news being Threads’ foray into the fediverse. This year’s presentation was no different, with several developers showing off new apps that will help to expand the ecosystem of decentralized social networks. During FediForum, Bonfire…
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Apple ordered to keep web links in the App Store
Apple will have to continue allowing web links and external payment options in the App Store after its request to halt a judge’s order was rejected today by a higher court. In April, a federal judge demanded that Apple begin allowing web links, cease restricting how links are formatted, and enable developers to offer external payment options without giving the…
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Meta Apps Have Been Covertly Tracking Android Users’ Web Activity for Months
I don’t expect Meta to respect my data or my privacy, but the company continues to surprise me with how low they’re willing to go in the name of data collection. The latest such story comes to us from a report titled “Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android.” In short, Meta and Yandex (a Russian technology company) have…
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How AI will transform your Windows web browser – Computerworld
It looks like Microsoft is calling this “Copilot Mode” for Edge. And it’s not just a transformed New Tab page complete with suggested prompts and a Copilot box, either: Microsoft is also experimenting with “Context Clues,” which will let Copilot take into account your browser history and preferences when answering questions. It’s worth noting that Copilot Mode is an optional…
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Android Auto will get Spotify Jam and support for video apps and web browsers
Android Auto is getting more than just Google’s Gemini assistant after the Google I/O developer conference. The company has also announced or otherwise shown off a slew of changes coming to the infotainment operating system, including an updated Spotify app, a light mode, and the introduction of web browsers and video apps. Let’s start with Spotify. Google revealed in a…
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Police arrests 270 dark web vendors, buyers in global crackdown
Police arrested 270 suspects following an international law enforcement action codenamed ‘Operation RapTor’ that targeted dark web vendors and customers from ten countries. National authorities in Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States have also seized over €184 million ($207M) in cash and cryptocurrency, more than 2 tonnes of drugs (including amphetamines, cocaine, ketamine, opioids, and cannabis), and over…
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Anthropic web config hints at Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4
Anthropic is secretly working on new models called Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, which are believed to be the company’s most advanced AI models. This is according to Anthropic web configuration files, which were recently updated with references to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4. As you can see in the above image showing the internal configuration file, Anthropic has specifically mentioned…
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Google Keep On the Web Is Getting New Formatting Features
Summary Google Keep now has rich text formatting for the web. The update is rolling out to Google Workspace and personal accounts. New formatting options include bold, underline, italic, and heading styles. Do you love Google Keep but wish the web version had many of the same features we enjoy on the mobile app, like text formatting? If so, we…
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Google Keep brings text formatting to the web
Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It may take a few weeks…
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Surfshark study probes data hunger of web browsers – Computerworld
A new survey by VPN provider Surfshark has found that Chrome collects the most information from users’ phones, while “TOR stands out as the most privacy-centric browser by collecting no data at all.” The two were among 10 that researchers analyzed, after using AppMagic, a market intelligence tool, to select the most popular browser apps on Apple phones in the…
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