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Firefox’s next stable release will put a single master switch in users’ hands: a new AI Controls pane that lets you disable built‑in generative AI features — or pick and choose the ones you want to keep — and promises the setting will persist across updates. Background / Overview Mozilla...

Google has quietly but deliberately shifted another piece of its AI strategy into the places people use the web most: Gemini — Google’s flagship large‑language model family — is now rolling into Chrome on Chromebook Plus devices, moving from a limited desktop preview into a platform‑level...

Mozilla is shipping a clear, user-facing “off” switch for browser-level generative AI: starting with Firefox 148 (rolling out February 24, 2026), the desktop browser will include a new AI Controls panel with a global Block AI enhancements toggle and granular per-feature controls that let users...

Mozilla’s latest update to Firefox doesn’t just ship a handful of AI toys — it ships an escape hatch: a single, discoverable settings page that lets users block current and future generative AI features across the desktop browser with one click. The new AI Controls panel, which Mozilla says will...

Mozilla has given users a one-click way to tell the AI revolution to stay out of their browser: starting with Firefox 148, rolling out February 24, the desktop browser adds an AI Controls panel with a single “Block AI enhancements” master switch that disables current and future generative AI...

A new, deceptively simple attack named “Reprompt” has exposed a critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal: with a single click on a legitimate Copilot deep link an attacker could, under the right conditions, mount a multistage, stealthy data‑exfiltration chain that pulls names, locations...

Microsoft Edge’s latest Stable update finally hands users a simple, supported way to remove the Copilot toolbar icon — but that small win sits inside a much larger, messy landscape of WebGL backend changes, new enterprise controls, and ongoing questions about how Microsoft is reshaping Edge...

Microsoft’s in‑Explorer Copilot experiment has moved from rumor to tangible preview artifacts: hidden UI strings and inert controls in recent Windows Insider builds point to a “Chat with Copilot” entry embedded directly in File Explorer, paired with a “Detach Copilot” affordance that implies a...

Microsoft Edge is quietly retiring its long‑standing Collections feature, and a raft of users — from casual shoppers and students to research teams and managed IT environments — have been caught scrambling to export and preserve data that until now lived comfortably inside the browser. The...

The story you’ve seen on social feeds this week — that “Microsoft Office was renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot” — is true in headline form but misleading in context: Microsoft did rename the Microsoft 365 app to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, and that change began rolling out on January 15, 2025...

Microsoft’s decision to unify tracking prevention between normal and InPrivate windows in Microsoft Edge removes a long‑standing point of confusion and reshapes what “private” means in the browser — but the change also raises practical questions about expectations, enterprise controls, and how...

If managing app updates and uninstalls on Windows 11 has ever felt like juggling multiple control panels, Microsoft is quietly consolidating the chore — a new Settings-based “App updates” page and an easier way to uninstall Store-managed apps are rolling through Insider channels, and enterprise...

Microsoft’s Store client has quietly gained a small but practical capability: you can now uninstall apps that the Store manages directly from the Store’s Library page, and Microsoft has paired that consumer-facing tweak with a new, supported device-level policy in Windows 11 25H2 that lets...

If Copilot feels like unwanted bloat on your Windows 11 PC, you can remove or disable most of its visible components — but a truly permanent, universal removal is increasingly difficult because Microsoft has been delivering Copilot in multiple forms and via multiple channels; administrators and...

Microsoft has shifted the Microsoft Store's app‑update control from a permanent on/off toggle to a pause‑only model: turning "Update apps automatically" off now opens a dialog asking you to pause updates for a fixed period of 1–5 weeks rather than disabling automatic updates forever. This change...

Microsoft Edge is quietly pushing the same soft‑sell tactic tech companies have used for years: make a helpful feature extremely visible, then nudge users toward it until it becomes habitual — only this time the feature is an AI rewrite tool that can appear any time you select text in a web text...

Cookies are small but powerful: they smooth logins, remember preferences, and speed up sites — and they also enable cross‑site tracking and complex ad ecosystems that many users want to control. This feature piece unpacks how to view, allow, block, delete and use cookies in Microsoft Edge...

Microsoft’s official guidance on what Microsoft Edge collects, how that data is used, and where you can control those flows is clearer than it was a few years ago, but it still hides important trade‑offs and operational details that every Windows user and administrator should understand before...

Microsoft’s push to make Edge an “AI browser” took a decisive step this year with an update that gives Copilot the ability to act on users’ behalf inside the browser — opening and navigating tabs, running searches, and executing multi-step tasks like bookings and form-filling when explicitly...

Mozilla has quietly shipped Firefox 143.0.1 — a focused, emergency patch whose sole purpose is to stop a class of tab crashes caused by third-party DLL injection on Windows systems, with multiple reports pointing to Trend Micro's tmmon64.dll as a common trigger. Background Firefox 143 arrived as...