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India’s digital backbone is more dependent on US-controlled software, platforms and cloud services than most citizens realize — and that dependence now reads as a strategic vulnerability in the eyes of national security analysts and independent researchers. Background India’s public discourse...

Google's work on making Chrome feel faster has quietly returned to an old idea with a modern twist: the browser is now experimenting with using simple mouse hovers as a signal to prepare pages before you click, and it has added a lower-level "render boost" that gives active page loads more...

Chromium developers have closed a high‑severity upstream bug — tracked as CVE‑2025‑10201 — that the Chromium project describes as an “inappropriate implementation in Mojo” which could be abused, via a crafted HTML page, to bypass Chrome’s site‑isolation protections on Android, Linux and...

A newly assigned Chromium vulnerability, CVE-2025-10200, is a use‑after‑free flaw in the ServiceWorker implementation that Google patched in its September stable updates; the bug allows a remote attacker, by luring a user to a crafted page, to trigger heap corruption and potentially achieve...

Chrome profiles quietly solve one of the most persistent productivity problems in modern browsing: context bleed. By giving each role or mode—work, personal, social, research—its own isolated browser environment, profiles prevent tabs, bookmarks, extensions, cookies, and signed-in accounts from...

Google’s Chrome is quietly treating copy-and-paste as a first‑class privacy risk: Canary builds now show Safety Check automatically removing clipboard permissions from sites you haven’t visited recently, surface a clear “Removed permissions for [x] sites” notice in the menu, and give users a...

Chrome’s September security update closes a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine — tracked as CVE-2025-9864 — that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory and potentially achieve remote code execution through a crafted web page, and administrators of...

Google's Chromium project has logged a serious security issue — tracked as CVE-2025-9866 — describing an inappropriate implementation in Extensions that can be weaponized to bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) via a crafted HTML page; Google has issued a Chrome stable update to remediate the...

Google's Chromium team has fixed a medium-severity UI spoofing flaw—tracked as CVE-2025-9865—that existed in the browser's Toolbar implementation and could allow domain spoofing on Android when a user performed specific UI gestures on crafted pages. Background Chromium's September 2025 security...

Google and the Chromium project have patched CVE-2025-9867, a medium-severity inappropriate implementation bug in the Downloads component that can be abused for UI spoofing on Chrome for Android, and users should update their mobile and desktop Chromium-based browsers immediately to eliminate...

A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but...

The moment your Windows PC starts whispering “Low disk space,” it isn’t always because you’ve hoarded videos or forgotten to empty the Recycle Bin—sometimes the culprits are ordinary system and application folders that quietly balloon over time. A recent practical roundup identified the usual...

Linux Lite 7.6 arrives as a pragmatic, low-friction alternative for users tired of Windows 11’s hardware demands—especially those running older laptops and desktops who want a familiar, lightweight desktop with current applications and clearer documentation. Background / Overview Linux Lite has...

Google’s work on making tabs less chaotic keeps getting bolder: a new experiment in Chrome Canary now offers a one-step way to convert a tab group into a standard bookmark folder, and several companion menu and context‑menu tweaks are being tested that together point to a future where tab groups...

Google’s Chrome team is quietly testing a one-click option in Chrome’s Windows settings that not only sets Chrome as the default browser but will also pin it to the Windows 11 taskbar — a small UI change with outsized product and regulatory implications for how browsers compete on Windows. The...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are no longer just browsers—they’re sprawling platforms where AI, privacy controls, and even gaming features are being used as battlegrounds to win users’ attention and loyalty. Background / Overview The modern browser fight is about more than page-load times and...

Microsoft’s Xbox app on Windows 11 has quietly started to act less like a storefront front end and more like a full-fledged PC gaming hub, now testing a “My apps” tab that will surface, download, and launch third‑party apps and rival storefronts from within the Xbox UI itself. Background The...

Microsoft has begun testing a new “My apps” tab inside the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 that lets players locate, download, and launch third‑party applications — from browsers and gaming utilities to rival storefronts — without leaving the Xbox experience, a move aimed squarely at improving...

A high-severity memory-corruption flaw in Chromium’s V8 JavaScript engine, tracked as CVE-2025-9132, has been patched in the Chrome 139 stable update; the vulnerability is an out‑of‑bounds write that can lead to heap corruption and, in the worst case, remote code execution when a user visits a...

ZDNET’s compact “five apps I always install first” playbook is an efficient, pragmatic shortcut for getting a fresh Windows PC productive in minutes: install Everything for instant local search, Google Chrome for cross‑device browsing and extensions, VLC Media Player for near‑universal media...