The New York Times filed suit against Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the browser company scraped its copyrighted articles and distributed them to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. A separate but similar lawsuit was filed the same day by the Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. The complaints also cite a Brave feature that bypasses paywalls and its practice of blocking publishers' ads while inserting its own.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-02
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Brave, maker of the Brave web browser, alleging the company's AI tools scrape its content and bypass paywalls without authorization. The suit reportedly centers on how Brave's AI features access and summarize Times articles.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-02
A free web app called VHS Camera applies a simulated VHS look—colour bleed, tape noise, date stamps and tape hiss—to live camera footage or uploaded video clips. It runs entirely in the browser on iPhone and Android with no sign-up or install, offering adjustable wear levels (Clean, Dirty, Worn) and saving output as MP4 files. The developer states all processing happens on-device, with nothing uploaded to a server.
fotojockovic.com
· 2026-11-02
The New York Times and a group of publishers including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have filed lawsuits against Brave Software. The complaints allege Brave scraped their websites without permission, sold access to its content index to AI firms such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and built a browser feature that lets users bypass publisher paywalls.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-02
Developer Jan de Jager has published Retro486 Modular Browser PC, also called e486-web, a full Intel 80486DX2-66 system emulator built entirely in JavaScript and hosted on GitHub. The live demo includes a CRT-style display tab with retro color options, plus tabs for configuring motherboards, expansion cards, storage, and diagnostics, along with preloaded DOS disks and games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-31
In this week's Installer newsletter, The Verge's David Pierce highlights Apple's new iPad Mini, noting it lacks a ProMotion display but is thinner, lighter and more water- and dust-resistant than before. He also mentions Amazon's $500 Echo Show 16 smart display and a cheaper $200 Alexa-powered photo frame, alongside other gear picks like a Pebble Index 01 and CMF Speaker S.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-31
ElementaryUI, an open-source project for writing Swift code that runs in the browser, has published a message thanking current financial supporters and inviting new sponsors. The post includes minimal project details, focusing mainly on acknowledging backers and soliciting further funding.
elementary.codes
· 2026-10-29
A security analysis outlines three methods by which AI agents currently operate within employees' browsers: remote debugging via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, browser extensions like Claude in Chrome, and agentic browsers, plus emerging standards such as WebMCP. Each method grants agents different levels of access to authenticated sessions, often indistinguishable from normal human browser activity.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-29
A developer has released cfsolve, an open-source Rust library and CLI tool that solves Cloudflare Turnstile widgets and challenge pages by impersonating real browsers using recorded response profiles, rather than running a headless browser. It outputs either a Turnstile token or a cf_clearance cookie, and currently ships with a Safari-on-iOS profile, with Chrome also supported in principle.
github.com
· 2026-10-28
Google announced an update to Chrome's autofill feature that uses AI to scan users' Gmail for information like flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, tracking numbers, addresses and phone numbers to fill out online forms. The feature, part of Google's Personal Intelligence suite that also powers Gemini, is opt-in and rolling out to U.S. desktop users and the iOS and Android Gemini-in-Chrome apps, with Google saying sensitive data is encrypted.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
Opera announced it will ship open-weight AI models directly inside its browser, powered by the newly proposed WebAI web standard backed by Google and Microsoft. Users will be able to run AI queries locally without installing separate tools like Ollama, and the feature is opt-in, with nothing downloaded unless the user chooses to.
zdnet.com
· 2026-10-28
The Browser Choice Alliance, a group of rival browser makers, commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team to study Microsoft's tactics for keeping users on Edge. The resulting report identifies 10 'dark patterns,' including ads that discourage downloading rival browsers, incomplete default-browser switches, Windows S mode restrictions, and links in Widgets, Search, lock screens, Outlook and Teams that open in Edge regardless of a user's chosen default.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-28
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