AI startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for a staggering $34.5 billion. The offer follows the DOJ’s push to force Google to spin off its browser following last year’s antitrust lawsuit focused on Google Search.
Google says that it has fixed a major Chrome OS bug introduced in a recent update that completely locked users out of their devices. In tech lingo, the devices were “bricked” by a simple typo, and Google’s fix could take “a few days” to reach consumers.
Code-hosting portal GitHub is reportedly working on replacing the programming term “master” with a neutral term such as “main” in an effort to avoid references to slavery. The move is part of a leftist push to change the language of coding by removing terms deemed racist, sexist, and otherwise “offensive.”
Google has launched a Chrome browser extension allows users to report suspicious sites to the firm to include in its “Safe Browsing” index.
Both Google and Mozilla have banned Gab’s Dissenter.com extension from their browsers’ extension stores. Dissenter’s mission is to bring a free speech comment system to every site on the Internet.
Google has revealed that a recent update to its Chrome web browser includes a fix for a bug which could leave the browser vulnerable to hackers.
Google will allow users to disable its Chrome browser’s recent automatic sign-in feature next month, following “angry” complaints.
Google users are concerned about their browsing privacy after a recent update at Google secretly logs Chrome browser users into their online Google accounts, syncing data without asking, a move one expert says has “enormous implications for user privacy and trust.”
Google slows down YouTube for users who don’t use the Silicon Valley giant’s own Chrome browser, according to an executive from Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser.
