Mozilla announced today that it is shutting down two of its services: Pocket, a long-standing bookmarking and reading service, and Fakespot, a recent acquisition, that can detect fake reviews of products online. Pocket Pocket started out as an independent “read it later” service back in 2007. It allowed users to save bookmarks to web resources…
Author: Martin Brinkmann
Google: “people have been finding ads within AI overviews helpful”, so we are expanding them
When you run a search on Google, you may get an AI Overview at the top of the results. Google announced an expansion of the AI-powered feature to roll out in more markets and for more languages. Google revealed information about its AI plans yesterday on its Ads & Commerce blog. There, the company noted…
Gemini in Chrome: Google integrates AI directly into the browser
Google announced Gemini in Chrome yesterday. The integration of the AI into Google’s browser is the next step in Google’s masterplan to spice up its products using artificial intelligence. Chrome users in the United States who are subscribed to Google AI Pro or the new Google AI Ultra plan, will be the first to gain…
Microsoft’s new open source Edit application may remind you of the classic MS-DOS Editor
If you have used computers for a long time, you may remember MS-DOS and the tools that Microsoft shipped with it. Microsoft developed Edit, an open source command line text editor for Windows as an homage of sorts. Interested users can download and install the latest version of Edit for Windows or build the app…
Opera GX update introduce new usability features, including one that is a first
When was the last big usability feature introduced in your favorite browser? One that is new and unique? Not speaking of tab groups and vertical tabs support in Firefox. While great and new to users of the browser — if you ignore extensions and Mozilla’s decade-old attempts, they are not particularly new features. Google and…
Netflix to use AI “to serve the right ad to the right member at the right time”
The next frontier for AI is advertisement. While some companies are already experimenting with AI-powered advertising formats, more and more will hop on the bandwagon to increase revenue and ideally make ads more lucrative for companies and better for users as well. Netflix announced a push into AI-drive advertising, which it calls creative formats, just…
Windows 10 update may cause another Bitlocker recovery reboot issue
What is with Windows operating systems and issues with the default encryption software Bitlocker? Last year, Windows 11 users suffered from the issue after installation of certain updates for their systems. Now, Microsoft is confirming a similar issue for users of the Windows 10 operating system. The details: Microsoft confirmed the issue on the official…
Chrome 136 update patches security issue that is exploited in the wild
Google released a security update for its Chrome web browser for the desktop and Android that fixes several security issue. One of the issues is rated high and already exploited on the Internet according to Google. The details: The security update changes the version of the Chrome web browser to the following versions: Google lists…
Firefox 138.0.3 fixes two crashes and some other issues
Mozilla plans to release a new point update for its open source Firefox web browser later today. Firefox 138.0.3 is a non-security update that fixes three issues in earlier versions of the web browser, including one crash issue. If you use Firefox on the desktop only, you may ask yourself if you missed the Firefox…
Microsoft 365: Windows 10 continues to be supported, at least somewhat
Microsoft plans to end support for several editions of Windows 10 this October. While customers may subscribe to extended security updates to extend support by one (home) or up to three (business / Enterprise) years, it was unclear how Microsoft would handle support for some of its other products and services running on Windows 10,…









