A free, open-source Chrome extension called Usage Bar for Claude displays Claude plan usage limits, a live token counter for the context window, and a prompt-cache countdown directly on claude.ai. The…
Google shipped three new Gemini models this week, including Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, which found 55 confirmed vulnerabilities in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine during testing — 10 of which were missed b…
RuntimeWire launched the beta of RuntimeWire New Tab, a free Chrome extension built on Manifest V3 that replaces Chrome's blank new-tab page with an AI-news dashboard featuring a slide-out feed, daily…
Google collects extensive personal data on users, including search history, location, emails, and voice recordings, even in incognito mode, according to a Proton investigation. The company's AI tools …
Anthropic's Claude Cowork, launched on January 30, 2026, enables the AI agent to execute multi-step tasks across Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook from an isolated server environment, with …
A Hacker News user reports that the 1Password browser extension for Edge and Chrome is outputting debug messages in the browser console, raising concerns about the use of AI in security-focused softwa…
A developer built StockPulse, a Chrome extension for Adobe Stock and Shutterstock contributors that provides 100% local-first sales analytics, storing all data in IndexedDB for privacy. The extension …
A developer built CALIO, a Chrome extension that extracts key information from insurance SEC filings (10-Ks and 10-Qs) directly from the document, eliminating the need for manual searching or AI chatb…
SubSnipe, a new Chrome extension, automates Reddit conversation discovery by scanning user-selected subreddits for posts containing target phrases like "looking for" or "any alternative to" and displa…
A developer built a local-only Chrome extension that autofills job application forms with one click, ensuring no data is ever sent to a server. The extension uses Manifest V3, heuristic field inferenc…
Kilo, the AI coding agent, can now test its own VS Code extension and CLI end-to-end by driving the product and observing results, closing the loop between code generation and verification. The self-t…
A new open-source tool called chrome-agent, built in Rust, provides an LLM-native browser automation tool that reduces page representation to ~50 tokens using the accessibility tree, compared to ~2,00…
Google is testing a new feature in Chrome Canary that lets users right-click on a tab group and select "Ask Gemini about this group," giving Gemini access to every tab in the collection to summarize c…
Google has added a global Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to Chrome that launches its Gemini AI assistant, overriding the default shortcut used by many applications for 'Find Next'.…
A developer built a Libvirt-powered sandbox for Claude, using a Bash script to provision a Debian VM with LXQt and Chrome for acceptance testing. The script automates VM creation, teardown, and networ…
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra built a full Chrome V8 exploit chain from patch commits, achieving arbitrary code execution on a recent Chrome build (V8 14.9.207.35) after three days of autonomous work, while Grok …
Mincdp, a minimal Chrome DevTools Protocol client in ~410 lines of C or a single Java file, lets developers drive headless Chrome for tests without Selenium or a version-matched chromedriver. The libr…
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model fine-tuned from its 3.5 Flash model to find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently. The model will be …
A developer at endoflife.ai analyzed 7,144 software versions across 463 products and found the median supported lifespan is 18 months. The dataset, drawn from the open-source endoflife.date project, r…
A developer building on Chrome's on-device Gemini Nano LLM found that on-device AI changes assumptions from cloud API development. They built a Chrome extension called Quill as a testbed, discovering …