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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been mostly reactionary up to this point: a user initiates a conversation or asks the AI to do something, and the AI reacts to the input. AI agents will change that, but they too have limited knowledge. All of this is going to change with Google’s announcement of Personal Intelligence, which…
If you were hoping for a quiet start to the new year, Microsoft has other plans. The January 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, and it marks a heavy start to the year for system administrators. Microsoft has addressed a massive 114 vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, including eight critical flaws and a zero-day that require immediate…
Google started to add AI features to its popular email service Gmail last year. These focused on productivity and included options to summarize long emails, optimize drafts, or improve search. These features were limited to Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers, and also available as part of a Google Workspace subscription. Tip: looking for emails…
Android phone and tablet owners know the drill. Google releases monthly security updates for Android and pushes them to supported Pixel devices quickly. Other manufacturers, Samsung, Xiaomi or Sony, to name a few, create patches for their devices and push them to these devices as well. Depending on how much you paid for the device…
Brave Browser is one of the few major web browsers that supports native content blocking on all supported platforms that is enabled by default. It should not come as a surprise that the browser is on an upwards trajectory when it comes to users and popularity. While Brave is not without controversy, it is clear…
Several Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions, designed to protect users online, were discovered to include AI harvesting code that captured, among other things, every AI prompt and response made in the browser it was installed in. This is the second major discovery by security researchers at KOI. In July, the company discovered 18 malicious Chrome…
Many makers of web browsers are evolving the browsers that they develop into AI-based browsers. How and to what degree depends much on the company or organization that is involved. From integrating options to chat with AI and basic AI features, such as getting a summary of a webpage, to agentic browsers, like Perplexity, that…
The free AI ride is as good as over. Free meaning no ads in this case. The writing was on the wall: AI processing, infrastructure and upkeep are expensive and companies can only burn through a specific amount of money before investors demand a return on their investment or they run into payment issues. ChatGPT…
If you are using Google’s Gmail email service, you may have stumbled upon Smart Features already, especially if you are using the web-version of the service. Up until recently, Smart Features did not include AI, but this changed in 2025. Now, Google has baked its AI Gemini into the Smart Features of Gmail. Depending on…
The number one advertisin company on the Internet seems to have found another place to show you ads. Reports are coming in that more and more users are starting to see ads in AI Mode. AI Mode? It is a new option in Google Search that you may use to ask Google’s Gemini AI questions…