DarkSpectre quietly infected millions through seemingly legit browser extensions

The researchers initially discovered DarkSpectre while investigating ShadyPanda, a campaign based on popular Chrome and Edge extensions that infected over four million devices. Further analysis ...

Cyberhackers Just Turned 150 Browser Extensions Into Viruses - Here's How

ShadyPanda, a Chinese hacker group operated several legitimate browser extensions for years before weaponizing them to ...
Kotaku

Dreamcast Web Browsing Is Dead Over 25 Years Later Thanks To Google

Surely Google could afford to let Dreamcast users keep checking the weather on their 27-year-old consoles? Why are games still launching without difficulty settings, only to add them in later when ...
BGR

AI Web Browsers Are Spying On You - Here's How

A bombshell was dropped on the AI industry when an August 2025 USENIX study found that AI browsers violate user privacy by collecting customer browsing data. Conducted by researchers at the University ...
The Verge

Google is building an experimental new browser and a new kind of web app

Disco is not coming to replace Chrome, but rather to test GenTabs, an AI-forward way of using the web. Disco is not coming to replace Chrome, but rather to test GenTabs, an AI-forward way of using the ...
TechCrunch

Google debuts ‘Disco,’ a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs

Google on Thursday introduced a new AI experiment for the web browser: the Gemini-powered product Disco, which helps to turn your open tabs into custom applications. With Disco, you can create what ...