A new browser extension called Typed scores Gmail drafts from 0% to "✅ typed" by counting every character typed by hand against characters pasted, dropped or generated by software, and signs the resul…
Developer rav4nn released agent-chrome, a free open-source Claude Code plugin that lets the AI agent browse in a copy of the user's signed-in Chrome while the browser window stays behind the terminal …
A WordPress site running the All-In-One Security (AIOS) plugin's optional Copy Protection toggle blocked text selection, right-click and copy by setting `user-select: none` on `<body>` and attaching `…
A developer built EcoPrompt, an open-source Chrome extension that estimates the water, energy, and carbon footprint of individual AI prompts in real time on interfaces like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude…
A new AI starter pack offers a paste-in prompt for the ChatGPT or Claude desktop app that automates setting up an X feed for following AI discourse, built around a curated list of roughly 200 accounts…
A developer published the full source code for a Claude Opus 5.5-generated music video for the song "I'm Upping My P(doom)" on GitHub, with every scene, storyboard and animation guide produced by the …
Google's AI Overviews now include external links in over 25% of results, up from close to 0%, according to new data reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The same September 23, 2026 search forum recap…
An independent developer built ClicReponse, a Chrome and Brave browser extension that adds one-click reply buttons beneath the latest ChatGPT message, filling the input field without sending anything …
Cybersecurity researchers at Zimperium's zLabs discovered a new Android malware strain called RatHat, linked to threat actors based in China, that uses generative AI to control an infected device's ac…
Security researcher Gal Weizman of Forever Security disclosed a new attack technique called BragJack that hijacks built-in AI browser assistants via a single malicious extension, demonstrated against …
ManifestGo launched as an AI Chrome extension builder that generates complete Manifest V3 projects — popup, background service worker, content scripts, options page, and icons — from a plain-English d…
Forever Security researcher Gal Weizman demonstrated on September 16 a proof-of-concept called BragJack, in which a single malicious browser extension hijacks the built-in AI assistants in Google Chro…
Developer MrDesjardins released Jev Send Guard, a background agent for Windows and macOS that uses TypeSafe AI's Jev model to flag drafts reading as curt, impolite, unprofessional, or missing a clear …
Researchers at Forever Security disclosed BragJack, an attack in which a single installed browser extension could hijack the built-in AI agents of Chrome with Gemini, Edge with Copilot, Opera Neon, Pe…
A developer published a PowerShell script that automates access to Google's Gemini AI features on Windows by installing OpenVPN Connect V3, connecting to a US VPN Gate node with split-tunneling, and l…
Security researcher Arnott observed the Poper Blocker browser extension exfiltrating URLs using character-mapping obfuscation and gated AI-chat scraping that activated after a 24-hour user-ID age, acc…
Magic Actions for YouTube, a Chrome extension with roughly 1 million users and 15+ years of operation, was force-disabled for all users after Chrome flagged its CRX package as containing malware, whil…
Security firm Proofpoint said Wednesday that at least four hacking groups, some with ties to the Chinese government, are actively using a nearly identical exploit kit it named BlueMoon that chains thr…
Google Chrome's Gemini side panel is adding a file upload option under the Add attachments menu, allowing users to attach documents and ask Gemini to summarize or extract information without leaving t…
OpenAI opened the WebMCP Challenge, a ten-day build event supported by Google Chrome, Cloudflare, Shopify, Vercel, Render, and Netlify, to promote an experimental open standard for agent-ready website…