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From skirt lengths to satellite images to a blockchain tracker, here are 11 quirky and serious indicators you can use to sanity-check the new inflation and employment numbers. In 2025, trust in ...

National Public Data is back with new owners, joining the ranks of other creepy, people-finding services. Here's how to get your profile removed from the site. National Public Data, a website infamous ...

Popular generative AI web browser assistants are collecting and sharing sensitive user data, such as medical records and social security numbers, without adequate safeguards, finds a new study led by ...

Most security tools can't see what happens inside the browser, but that's where the majority of work, and risk, now lives. Security leaders deciding how to close that gap often face a choice: deploy a ...

The data comes from a nationwide survey carried out by New York-based human-centric cybersecurity outfit Anagram, and its results couldn’t be more clear. Seventy-eight percent of respondents to the ...

The most obvious red flag is when your homepage or default search engine changes without your consent. Most browser hijacks don’t arrive through a “hack” in the traditional sense — they come bundled ...

Browser security firm LayerX has disclosed a new attack method that works against popular gen-AI tools. The attack involves browser extensions and it can be used for covert data exfiltration. The ...

OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's GOOGL.O market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated ...

Until recently, the cyber attacker methodology behind the biggest breaches of the last decade or so has been pretty consistent: Compromise an endpoint via software exploit, or social engineering a ...