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Big Tech companies including Meta, Google, and Apple are collaborating with Mozilla on a new browser standard for advertising attribution, raising concerns about privacy and competitive advantages.
Santiago (@svpino) discusses the challenges of running AI agents inside browsers, and @ego_agent announces 'ego lite,' a kernel-level rebuild aimed at making AI agents faster and more reliable.
Riley Brown speculates that Codex will become a full browser, enabling use of creative tools like Canva inside it, and predicts this will be the primary way people work in six months.
David Pierce announces that Vivaldi 8.0 is his new default browser, praising its speed, extensive customization options, and cleaner design.
Edge Python is a 170 KB WASM-based sandboxed Python subset that runs agent-generated code directly in the browser without a server, supporting classes, async/await, pattern matching, and more.
ShadowCat is an offline single-file HTML page for transferring data between devices via QR codes, intended for old phones with functional cameras and browsers but broken radios.
Mozilla announces Project Nova, a redesign of Firefox focusing on privacy, speed, and a cleaner, warmer design, with updates to tabs, settings, and compact mode.
Mozilla announces Project Nova, a major visual overhaul of Firefox with rounded UI, improved privacy controls including a toggle to disable all AI features, and new customization options. The redesign will roll out later this year.
Firefox 151 adds support for the Web Serial API, enabling web applications to directly communicate with serial devices like microcontrollers, 3D printers, and development boards without native software, expanding its utility for hardware hacking and education.
A security exploit in Chromium, thought to have been fixed four years ago, was found to actually remain unfixed, highlighting a significant oversight in the browser's security patching process.
Google published exploit code for an unfixed Chromium vulnerability that can turn browsers into a limited botnet, affecting Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers. The vulnerability remains unpatched after 29 months.
A readable rewrite of the hardware-detection module behind canirun.ai, providing descriptive names, JSDoc, and cleaner code while preserving the original heuristics and spec tables.
The article describes the transition from solo human browser use to a collaborative mode where an LLM assists in real-time, introducing the concept of 'Together' browsers and categorizing users into three groups: solo humans, solo agents, and together mode.
Oasis is a privacy-first AI browser for Mac that allows users to train AI models anonymously.
Xs of Y is a roguelike game written in a custom Lisp dialect called let-go, where each run generates a new title, quest, and rune mappings. The game features a unique magic system based on s-expressions and runs natively or in the browser via WASM.
Developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes forking the Web by creating an alternative, simplified HTML/Web specification with goals including strict semantic versioning, a formal unambiguous grammar, and a size-constrained spec to encourage browser diversity. The proposal is linked to the lightweight Dillo browser project.
Google Chrome is automatically downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model weights file to users' devices to power on-device AI features like scam detection and writing assistance, often without clear notification about storage requirements. Users can disable the On-Device AI toggle in Chrome settings to remove the file and prevent re-downloads.
GStack v1.28 adds download capabilities and headed configuration mode with anti-bot detection via Xvfb on headless Linux containers, plus llms.txt for agent integration.
A brief mention or link to try LispE, a Lisp dialect, in the browser.
Google has updated Chrome's AI Mode to allow users to explore web content side-by-side with AI assistance without switching tabs, and added the ability to search across recent tabs and files for deeper context.