Tag: Chromium

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/the-rule-of-2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Feedly Summary: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromium guideline states: When you write code…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • Slashdot: Brave Browser Blocks Microsoft Recall By Default

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/22/2033221/brave-browser-blocks-microsoft-recall-by-default?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Brave Browser Blocks Microsoft Recall By Default Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Brave Browser has taken proactive measures to block Microsoft’s Recall feature by default for users on Windows 11 and above, addressing significant privacy concerns associated with potential misuse. This decision aligns with Brave’s…

  • The Register: After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/google_kaspersky_mozilla/ Source: The Register Title: After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug Feedly Summary: Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability,…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/27/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-2783 Google Chromium Mojo Sandbox Escape Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant…