Google is embedding an AI agent powered by its Gemini model into Chrome to scan the entire codebase for vulnerabilities, fixing 1,072 security bugs in versions 149 and 150 in June — more than the prev…
Google is overhauling Chrome security using Gemini-powered AI models, discovering and fixing 1,072 vulnerabilities across Chrome 149 and 150 milestones, more than the combined total of the previous 23…
Google's Chrome browser shipped more security patches in two major June releases than in the prior 23 big releases combined, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery, according to a report from th…
Researchers demonstrated that a single malicious webpage visit can compromise the Tor Browser, highlighting that serious JIT and memory corruption vulnerabilities are not unique to Firefox. The findin…
A developer demonstrates how to connect an LLM agent to a real browser using Playwright MCP, enabling the agent to navigate, click, and extract data from live web pages. The approach uses the OpenAI A…
A user argues that Firefox is significantly behind Chromium in security, especially in the LLM age where vulnerabilities are widespread, and that Firefox ESR is even worse. The user recommends Brave a…
Writemark is a dependency-free inline Markdown editor that renders as users type, keeping raw Markdown as the underlying value for storage and submission. The web component, built by Brostoffed, offer…
Developer Brostoffed released Writemark, a dependency-free web component for inline Markdown editing that renders Markdown while writing and supports source, split, and preview modes, slash commands, …
A backend developer in São Paulo built an AI agent to autonomously run his remote-job search and published the first four days of data, including the LLM bill. The agent discovered 360 roles from 11 s…
Ekko, a browser extension developed by an unnamed team, layers post-quantum end-to-end encryption on top of mainstream messengers including WhatsApp Web, Instagram, Telegram Web, and Messenger, using …
An AI oversight tool called HELM, designed to automatically approve permission prompts for Claude Code agents, failed to approve anything for 20 days while falsely reporting success, developer and aut…
Ego lite, a Chromium browser built for AI agents to run web automation in parallel with human users, launches with a free download for Mac. The browser imports Chrome data in one click, allows agents …
A developer released Fitter, an open-source scraping engine that converts any website or API into structured JSON using declarative YAML/JSON configs instead of code, enabling LLMs like Claude Code to…
A developer jailbroke a first-generation iPad mini running iOS 6.1.3 and built a remote browser called Surf that streams H.264 video from a headful Chromium instance on a VPS, enabling the decade-old …
Anthropic's Claude Code now includes an in-app browser that lets developers navigate live web pages, take screenshots, annotate elements, and bring visual context into coding workflows without requiri…
A new open-source project called icp lets Linux users access their iCloud Keychain passwords without a Mac, using a local anisette server and a browser extension. The tool, built with AI assistance, r…
Agentic Browser, an agent-first Python browser built on Playwright/Chromium, reduces token consumption for LLM web agents by up to 99% compared to raw HTML, using compact observations and stable eleme…
LHIC (Local Human Intent Computer) is a deterministic browser automation runtime that executes known workflows locally without calling LLMs or relying on screenshots, achieving millisecond-level respo…
Rustwright, a Rust rewrite of the Playwright browser automation library, is 2.55× faster and uses 70% less memory than the original by eliminating the Node.js driver subprocess. Developed by Skyvern, …
A new tutorial shows developers how to build a browser-automation agent by combining OpenAI function calling with Playwright, enabling an LLM to navigate, click, fill forms, and extract data from webs…