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Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Work Together on Better Browser Extensions Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla have launched the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG) to collaborate on standardizing browser extensions to enhance both security and performance. “With multiple browsers adopting a broadly compatible model for extensions in the last few years, the WECG is excited to explore
Amazon to Share Your Internet With Neighbors on Tuesday – How to Opt Out Amazon will be launching the Amazon Sidewalk service on Tuesday that automatically opts-in your Echo and Ring devices into a new feature that shares your Internet with your neighbors. Here’s more about this new feature and how to opt-out of sharing
Microsoft Starts Autoupdating Windows 10 2004 to Windows 10 21H1 Microsoft has started training their machine learning algorithms by automatically updating Windows 10 2004 devices to the recently released Windows 10 21H1, the May 2021 feature update. In 2019, Microsoft announced that they were using machine learning to improve the reliability of the Windows Update experience.
GitHub’s New Policies Allow Removal of PoC Exploits Used in Attacks GitHub announced on Friday their updated community guidelines that explain how the company will deal with exploits and malware samples hosted on their service. To give some background behind the new policy changes, security researcher Nguyen Jang uploaded a proof-of-concept exploit (PoC) to GitHub in March