In a move that comes as a small surprise, Google's Chrome Dev and Canary channels for Windows include support for Google's new Nearby Share feature.
Google Cloud is going to start integrating better with the Office suite, as the Mountain View giant changes tact and looks to slowly bleed users away from Microsoft's reigning productivity suite.
Microsoft and Google engineers this week displayed a much-celebrated sense of camaraderie as a Microsoft employee offered to help integrate a feature found in the new Edge browser into the open-source Chromium project.
The American Association of Advertising Agencies and Association of National Advertisers have both urged Google to not stick to a plan that would see Chrome blocking third-party cookies by default.
Google hopes to make third-party cookies obsolete in the near future by introducing new standards like the Privacy Sandbox. As it does so, the company is also planning on removing support for them in its browser within the next two years.
Google is planning to gradually phase out the current implementation of user-agent strings, the metadata provided by the browser whenever you connect to a website. This includes information such as the browser you're using, your operating system, and more.
Security researchers found an online database containing the private information of over 267 million Facebook users exposed on the internet. It contained the Facebook IDs, phone numbers, and real names of the users.
A targeted attack on the Epilepsy Foundation's Twitter page contained a video with strobing effects that could cause victims to suffer from seizures.
The Chinese government this week passed new legislation mandating users to submit facial scans to the government before activating a new SIM card or phone number.
An exposed database had left the information of nearly 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud customers vulnerable. Passwords and credit card information were not leaked, and the company has now secured the information.
NordVPN, one of the most popular virtual private network providers has admitted a data center in Finland was hacked. The company noted that user activity logs and credentials were not intercepted.