Google's Manifest V3 update to the Chrome Extensions API disabled the webRequestBlocking permission, preventing ad blockers such as uBlock Origin from functioning, with Google citing performance reaso…
Google announced in August 2026 that its Gemini app surpassed 1 billion monthly users, alongside the release of Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cost-efficient developer model priced at half the original 3.6 Flash…
Agent-Native Clips, a free, open-source screen recorder from Agent-Native, captures browser diagnostics alongside video, including console logs, failed network requests, and HTTP status codes, to help…
A developer has introduced WebMCP, a proposed web capability that lets websites expose structured tools to AI agents, reducing reliance on screen scraping. The technology, currently an emerging Chrome…
PromptLab, a local-first Chrome extension for testing LLM prompts, was released on Hacker News. The Manifest V3 side panel, built with React, TypeScript, and Vite, stores up to 20 prompt fixtures enti…
A developer has released Saccade, a Chrome/Edge extension that compiles user-authorized tabs into semantically meaningful objects with stable identities and pushes page changes as deltas to a local No…
Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer who worked on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome, argues that desktop operating systems have stagnated for two decades, focusing on ecosystem lock-in rather tha…
Fastly has built a proof of concept on Fastly Compute that automatically injects WebMCP attributes into HTML forms at the edge, enabling AI agents to interact with web forms without developer changes.…
An engineer detailed why AI agents get blocked by bot detection while regular Chrome browsers do not, explaining that detection is a multi-layered stack where inconsistencies across TLS fingerprints, …
CardGo, a new Chrome extension from an independent developer, lets users create reusable, end-to-end encrypted context cards to attach to AI chats including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Gr…
Google has begun replacing destination URLs in search results with redirect links for automated queries, requiring 500 to 1,000 requests to resolve a five-page ranking, according to a report by PPC La…
Idlen, a new browser extension and IDE plugin, lets developers earn €20-100 per month by displaying curated developer-tool ads during AI chat wait times, working with Claude, ChatGPT, V0, Bolt, Lovabl…
A developer has built CryptoFlex, an open-source, local-first crypto-agility policy engine for Python 3.10+ that dynamically swaps encryption primitives without code redeploys. It orchestrates classic…
A developer's own automation script was killing Instagram login sessions nightly, disrupting a revenue-generating account. The issue stemmed from two separate repositories sharing the same Chrome prof…
A developer building MSG.AI for WhatsApp Web found that the hardest part of creating a Chrome extension is not the initial code but handling compatibility, product boundaries, trust, and maintenance. …
A new analysis argues that AI agents should ask before irreversible actions and act first for reversible ones, citing AWS's documentation that its Kiro agent's ask-first mode is 'a code review workflo…
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the company's fastest-growing product. The milestone highlights the integration of Gemini across Google's e…
ContextSwitch, a new browser extension for Chrome and Edge, lets users copy a conversation thread from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and continue it in another provider without retyping. The tool extract…
WebMCP, a protocol enabling AI agents to interact with websites through structured tools, gained momentum in August as Shopify deployed WebMCP tools on every Liquid storefront, Cloudflare introduced a…
Google's Android 17 introduces Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) by default for compatible apps, preventing network operators from seeing visited domains, alongside Local Network Protection, Certificate Tr…