Microsoft Warns: Fake Perplexity Extension Abused Chrome Search Features

Microsoft found a fake Perplexity AI Chrome extension that rerouted searches through attacker servers. Here’s what users ...

Microsoft Edge AI History Search Raises New Privacy Questions for IT Teams

Microsoft Edge 150 keeps AI history search policy active. See what IT teams should audit across Edge AI controls, Copilot ...

Californians can protect their personal data with one click. Help us test if it works

A new state tool lets Californians tell data brokers to stop tracking you. Will they comply? Help us investigate.
Microsoft

Chromium extension uses AI‑related branding to redirect browser search

A malicious Chromium-based extension that spoofs the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity AI redirects browser search traffic using MV3 APIs and intermediary infrastructure.

Supreme Court hangs up on whether smartphone search was 'reasonable'

The Supreme Court ruled that police conducted a 'search' of a bank robber's smartphone, but called for a review of whether it ...
TechSpot

DuckDuckGo's app is growing in popularity after Google turned search into AI

AI Off: Google recently announced a significant overhaul of its web search experience, and a reckoning may be coming. One of the most popular alternative search engines is reporting a significant ...
techtimes

10 Everyday Apps That Secretly Track Your Activity and Collect More Personal Data Than You Think

Mobile app usage has become a normal part of daily life, but smartphone privacy is often far more limited than most users expect. Many people assume that apps only collect basic account details, yet ...
CNET

Google Search Is Becoming Something Fundamentally Different. Here's What That Looks Like

From a reimagined search box to AI agents that hunt for apartments on your behalf, Google Search is being rebuilt with AI at its core. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...
The Next Web

The next version of Search won’t look like Search

Google unveiled a radical overhaul of Search at I/O 2026, replacing the traditional search box with an AI-powered interface built on Gemini 3.5 Flash. The update introduces “information agents” that ...
9to5google

Google gets ‘intelligent’ Search box redesign, information agents, mini apps, & more

Google Search received big updates at I/O 2026. For starters, AI Mode is now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash globally and has over 1 billion users every month. Google is introducing a new intelligent ...
ZDNet

Google's new AI Search box is here - along with agents and 5 more upgrades

Google Search is getting a new AI Search box. Search information agents monitor topics in the background. Agentic coding lets you build small apps in Search. Remember when Google Search felt simple? I ...
TechCrunch

Google Search as you know it is over

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — ...