Because the risks of AI browsers outweigh the hype, our Christine Hall uses BrowserOS as a tightly controlled research tool instead of a way to surf the web.
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Big names are pushing AI browsing as the future of the web, yet open source options are rare, leaving users to either weigh features against control and privacy… or fight back.
The folks behind Surfshark VPN have looked to see which mobile browsers are most likely to compromise your privacy, and offers some ways that you can protect yourself.
From where we sit, Google's "giveaway" of it's open source Chromium assets is basically a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn't an intentional monopolist… or that if it was, it's changed its ways.
An article in which our reporter tries to get Leo, Brave's chatbot, to spill the beans on what's really happening at Brave Software.
Last week Mozilla's $7 million dollar CEO Mitchell Baker announced that she was stepping away from the C-suite, although she'll remain onboard as chairperson of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.
Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, Adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last weeks rolling release poll.
The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation's versioning scheme.
This look at the open source Brave Browser is the first of five articles that FOSS Force will be running in January that will look at five web browsers that are alternatives to the dominate browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Next week we'll be taking an in-depth dive into Vivaldi.
Vivaldi's 5.0 release might be seen as the release of two browsers -- one finely tuned for the desktop, and one designed for a wide range of Android devices.