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This tool blocks all AI features and other elements you don’t want from your browser: and it does it without installations

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Installing a browser is very simple, and companies have taken charge to keep it that way. The really complicated thing is to use it without all the extras that we don’t want and that hinder us when browsing the Internet, which is precisely its original purpose. With that seemingly crazy idea of ​​using a browser only for browsing, a developer has launched “Just the Browser”, a tool that allows you to disable artificial intelligence functions, sponsored content, telemetry and other features that many of us hate in the main browsers. I’ll tell you how it works, because you might be interested. Browsers increasingly saturated with functions The creator of this initiative is Corbin Davenport, software developer and technology writer. Davenport starts from a simple premise: modern browsers have moved away from their basic function to become feature-packed platforms that many users consider distractions. And if you don’t want AI in your browser, it’s becoming increasingly difficult, since both Chrome, Edge and even Firefox They point towards a future full of AI generative, whether you like it or not. Luckily we have measures to solve thisand “Just the Browser” is one of them. The key to Just the Browser: enterprise group policies What’s ingenious about Just the Browser is its approach. And instead of creating a fork of another popular browser (as projects like LibreWolf, Waterfox or Pale Moon do), it uses the group policy settings that Google, Mozilla and Microsoft provide for companies and organizations. These corporate policies allow IT departments to block certain functions on work or school computers. Davenport has taken advantage of this functionality to make it available to individual users who want a cleaner browser. The process does not modify executable files or require additional extensions. It simply applies settings that browsers themselves are designed to honor permanently, something that doesn’t always happen with the settings that companies provide to home users. In Xataka Opera Neon promises to be the future of the browser. It is an ambitious vision yet to mature What exactly does it remove? Just the Browser disables several elements of your browser: Most generative AI features, both cloud and on-premises, with the exception of page translation in Firefox. Shopping integrations: price tracking, coupon codes, loan offers. Sponsored or Third Party Content: Suggested articles on new tab pages, suggested promoted sites. Reminders to set the browser as default. Experiences when launching the browser for the first time and automatic data import. Telemetry and data collection (maintaining crash reporting when the browser allows it as a separate option). Autostart functions with the operating system. According to Davenport, these settings are limited in scope because each user has their own definition of what they consider bloatware. The project does not aim for extreme minimalism or install additional privacy extensions. Simple installation using scripts The tool is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Your official website offers automated installation scripts that work by running a single command in the system terminal. Users can also download the configuration files directly from their GitHub page to apply them manually. Active policies can be checked at any time by accessing ‘about:policies’ in Firefox or ‘chrome://policy’ in Chromium-based browsers. You may see a “Your browser is being managed by your organization” message, a common browser warning when group policies are applied, but nothing to raise suspicions. The project is completely open source and Davenport hopes the community will help keep configurations up to date as browsers evolve. {“videoId”:”x883ph8″,”autoplay”:true,”title”:”From CHROME to VIVALDI: the 7 BEST BROWSERS to CHOOSE”, “tag”:”webedia-prod”, “duration”:”475″} Limitations At the moment, the tool only works on desktop computers. There is no support for mobile devices, although there are already users who have published requests on the GitHub page to add compatibility on Android and iOS systems. Keep in mind that the effectiveness of Just the Browser depends on browsers continuing to respect these group policies. If Google, Mozilla, or Microsoft decide to remove or modify these business controls, the settings may stop working. However, since these policies are designed for corporate clients, they are unlikely to be removed without notice. 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Someone believed that ‘GTA Vice City’ could be played for free in the browser without consequences. Take-Two has reacted firmly

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Whoever played ‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City‘ You probably remember well that it was not exactly a light game for its time. It was published in 2002 on PlayStation 2 and later came to Xbox and PC in 2003. In those years, installing it and making it work was part of the ritual with requirements that not everyone could meet. That is why it is striking that, more than two decades later, that same title appears running directly in a browser, without installations or disks. The question is inevitable: why now and with what implications. The response has come in the form of a cease and desist request directed at DOS Zone. The notice, that the platform itself has made publicmaintains that the website is “hosting and promoting a browser-based project.” The document demands that the game and any associated functionality be removed, and warns that if this is not done, the company reserves the right to take additional legal action. Where preservation ends and the legal problem begins A cease and desist request is not yet a demand, but rather a notice with clear consequences. Its objective is to force the removal of content that the rights holder considers infringing, leaving a formal record of the claim. From that moment on, the designated platform usually faces a clear decision: comply or assume the risk of the conflict escalating. The letter itself anticipates possible subsequent steps, such as communications to the accommodation provider or legal action if the request is not met. In this case, the notice has not been managed through direct communication between editor and platform, but through EBRANDspecialized in digital surveillance and content removals. This model is common in large catalogs, where the detection and management of potential violations is outsourced to dedicated teams. EBRAND acts as a technical and legal intermediary, in charge of documenting the case and conveying the demands of the rights holder, without publicly assessing the context of the affected project. DOS Zone, for its part, is presented as a project driven by video game enthusiasts with a stated objective of preservation and accessibility. In its own texts, the team emphasizes that it does not obtain financial benefits, does not display advertising and does not monetize access to the games it hosts. It also claims to reject any form of illegal distribution and ensures to operate within the legal frameworks it considers applicable. As part of this positioning, the platform maintains that it is willing to remove content immediately upon official request and to cooperate with rights holders. Screenshot of DOS Zone The version of Vice City accessible from the browser allowed you to start games with local saves and offered, optionally, saves in the cloud through the js-dos platform to continue the session on different devices. Access was limited in demo form, with progress blocked after the first story point at the Ocean View Hotel. To go further, the system required the user to upload an original game file, which was verified to match the commercial assets. The claim comes from Take-Two and is part of a broader debate about access and preservation, where the concept of “abandonware” is often invoked. However, that term has no legal validity: The fact that a work stops being sold or changes format does not extinguish its copyright. In the case of ‘Vice City’, the validity of the copyright in USA extends until 2097regardless of the channel through which you try to access the game. In this specific case, furthermore, the abandonment argument does not even hold up in practical terms. Take-Two continues to sell Vice City and also versions such as ‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition’ on multiple platforms. Its owners continue to exploit it commercially more than twenty years after its original release. This context reinforces the publisher’s position against any unauthorized execution and helps to understand why the case does not go unnoticed, even in an ecosystem where other similar projects manage to survive without friction. Images | Rockstar Games/Take-Two | DOS Zone Screenshot In Xataka | I can turn on, control and play my PC from anywhere in the world: three ingredients that make it possible

Mozilla wanted to turn Firefox into an AI-powered browser. The community has forced a change that was not in their plans

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For years, Mozilla and its Firefox browser have represented a rarity: a product shaped by demanding users, jealous of their control and unwilling to accept imposed changes. That’s why, when the word “AI” began to appear in his official speechdid not sound like a simple technical update, but rather a possible identity change. It was not a discussion about specific functions, but about limits. How far can Firefox stretch while still being recognizable to those who choose it precisely because it doesn’t look like the others. Before the controversy broke out, Mozilla had already begun to draw out its AI roadmap with a deliberately cautious tone. In his communications he talked about choice, transparency and preventing artificial intelligence from becoming a permanent layer of the browser. The AI, according to that initial approachhad to coexist with the classic Firefox experience without replacing it, offering specific and deactivatable tools, and maintaining the promise that the user decides if, when and under what conditions they use them. AIWindow. The most visible piece of that roadmap is a new window designed specifically for interacting with an AI assistant while browsing. Mozilla describes it as a separate, completely voluntary space that allows you to ask for contextual help without altering the rest of the browser experience. It does not replace the classic or private window, but is added as an additional option that the user decides whether to activate or not. The company insists that it can be deactivated at any time and that its development is being done openly, with a waiting list to test it and send comments. Why Mozilla thinks it’s important. The organization argues that AI is becoming a new way of accessing the web and that ignoring this change would leave the browser in a passive position. Their thesis is that, as more interactions go through assistants, it becomes essential to preserve principles such as transparency, accountability and decision-making capacity. Firefox, as a standalone browser, thus presents itself as an intermediary that uses AI to guide the user to the open web, rather than retaining them in a closed conversational environment. That balance began to break down in December, when the message about AI was publicly reinforced from Mozilla’s leadership. The reaction was not accidental if you understand who Firefox is addressing. A good part of its users do not come to the browser out of inertia, but after having searched deliberately, moving away from options such as Chrome, Edge or Safari. This more technical and critical profile tends to monitor any change that it perceives as a transfer of control. In this context, AI is not evaluated only by what it does, but by the precedent it sets and the risk of normalizing decisions made without the user’s explicit consent. The “AI kill switch” and the calendar. Faced with escalating criticism, Mozilla moved from generalities to explicit commitments. In a response to an open letter posted on RedditCEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo wrote: “Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control,” adding: “You’ll have a clear way to disable AI features. A true kill switch (kill switch) will arrive in Q1 2026.” With that promise, Mozilla made a verifiable commitment: an option to completely disable all artificial intelligence functions by a specific deadline, the first quarter of 2026, as a way to reinforce trust. When the deabte is still open. The announcement of the “kill switch” did not close the debate, but rather moved it to a more basic question: when does AI come into play. For many users, the fact that there is a switch to turn it off implies that the AI ​​would be present from the beginning and that it is the user who must deactivate it. The alternative they demand is the opposite, that the AI ​​is completely turned off when installing Firefox and is only activated after an explicit decision. On Mastodon, the Firefox for Web Developers account admitted that there are “gray areas” about what optional means in the interface, such as whether a new button counts as such, but he insisted that the “kill switch” will disable the AI ​​completely. With the discussion already on the table, Mozilla has been forced to do something that was not in the initial script: specify, clarify and publicly commit more than expected. The discourse around AI in Firefox has moved from general principles to uncomfortable details, and that’s where the trust of its community is at stake. The promises are made, the deadlines marked and the words written. Now the difference will not be made by the communications, but by how those guarantees are translated into the final product and if Firefox manages to integrate AI without diluting what made it different. Images | Firefox | Denny Muller In Xataka | AI has allowed developers to program faster than ever. That’s turning out to be a problem.

Opera Neon promises to be the future of the browser. It is an ambitious vision yet to mature

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I’ve been using it for a week Opera Neon and I don’t know if I’m testing the future of web browsing or participating in a psychological experiment on how much friction a human tolerates before returning to their usual browser. Probably both. Neon comes standard with everything that any veteran Opera user takes for granted: side messaging integrations, music apps in streamingthe multimedia panel… It is the reminder that, despite all the agentic experimentation, there is still an Opera underneath: practical, comfortable and designed for those who live glued to several platforms at the same time. The promise is seductive: a browser that not only answers questions, but act for you. Who browses, compares, reserves, creates. Who understands what you want to do and does it while you focus on more important things. Opera calls this “agentic AI“, and technically it is correct: Neon can take control of the browser, open tabs, fill out forms, compare products. It is AI with hands, it is Opera’s proposal for the same field as Perplexity with Comet or OpenAI with ChatGPT Atlas. The problem is that those hands are sometimes clumsy, unpredictable and dangerously overconfident. Opera Neon maintains all the classic features of Opera, such as the side panels to display messaging mini-applications or streaming music on an upper layer. In the image, Apple Music. Image: Xataka. Three brains in one body To understand Neon you have to accept that It is not an AI browser. It is a browser with three AIs living together. Chat, Do and Make. Each one with its function, its purpose, its personality. And here begins the first big problem: knowing which one to use at all times is a guessing exercise. Chat is the most familiar. A conversational chatbot that answers questions, summarizes pages, translates texts. Typical. It works well when you’re not making things up, which is about 70% of the time. I asked him to count the comments on several articles and he responded with 400 words explaining that there were none. when there were four. Do is where magic and terror live. You ask him to book a CrossFit class, find the cheapest flight to Lisbon, compare prices on headphones, unsubscribe from some newsletters. And sometimes it does. Open tabs, browse websites, fill out fields. Watching him work is hypnotic. It’s also slow, erratic, and occasionally catastrophic. In a test I asked her to add flowers to a store cart. Instead of somehow inferring my zip code or asking me about it, he directly introduced 28001: madridcentrismo to the song. While I, helpless, did click on the correct options that I was completely unaware of. There is no way to correct it while working. You can only watch, like someone who sees their autonomous car getting dangerously close to the cliff. A zip code just because, 350 km from my house. Image: Xataka. Neon spent an absurd amount of time wandering around the web, adding the bouquet to the cart, getting stuck on the shipping zip code, not feeling like anything productive was happening. Image: Xataka. Another example with Do: Image: Xataka. What he did was open Google Shopping, enter the term and not be able to click ‘Search’, apparently due to some subtle change in the website’s code. I gave it myself and Neon continued. It took a long time just to choose the order by price from lowest to highest. Finally he wrote the answer: Image: Xataka. Happy ending, although it is difficult to think of use scenarios where the use really compensates for the time and supervision it requires. If someone doesn’t know about Google Shopping, this is a good use case. If someone knows Google Shopping, they only have to do two clicks. Another example: reading some recipes Straight to the PalateI asked him to add all the ingredients necessary to make them to the Mercadona cart. Let’s go to trouble. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. This was one of those scenarios where there was no way I was going to complete the mission. Image: Xataka. Make is the most ambitious. Generate code, build web applications, create videos. I asked him for a memory game with Spanish vocabulary and he did it in minutes. Rough, but functional. It’s like having a mini-developer living in your browser, working in a virtual environment that disappears when you close the tab. A brilliant idea. A little polished perhaps, but brilliant. Image: Xataka. There are also the cardsa kind of templates prompts that function as mental shortcuts. You can combine them – “summarize + compare”, “decisions + follow-up” – or create your own so you don’t start from scratch every time you talk to the AI. It’s a simple but powerful idea: it makes user learning part of the system. Similar to what you propose Day with his Skills. It’s a good idea. What is not being said about Opera Neon Here comes the part that interests me the most, the one I read between the lines after a week living with this thing. Opera Neon is not really a product. It is a testing ground with product pricing. It is a public beta disguised as a premium service. And that wouldn’t be so much of a problem if it didn’t cost $20 a month. Let me be clear: I’ve seen enough technology launches to recognize when a company is testing concepts in the open field. And Neon is that. The bugs They are not occasional, they are structural, like the hallucinations. The Do agent disconnects if your computer goes to sleep. Chat responses are verbose. The Cards interface—those shortcuts prompts reusable—is full of examples with no real useful content. Cards examples interface. Image: Xataka. But there’s something more interesting going on here. Opera is making a counterintuitive bet at the worst possible time. We are in 2025: Google gives away Gemini in Chrome. Perplexity has Comet. The Browser Company (Arc’s company) has Day. Microsoft puts Copilot everywhere. And OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Atlas. … Read more

Samsung already has its “Safari moment.” The launch of your browser on Windows is the key to having your Apple-like ecosystem

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For years, Galaxy mobile users have had a somewhat fractured experience when it comes to synchronized web browsing between devices. opt for google chrome is the best option for this, although the South Korean’s own browser is considered one of the best alternatives for those who want to escape the clutches of Google. Upon reaching the PC, that history, passwords and bookmarks were trapped on the mobile. Despite has not stopped improving in recent times, more with the arrival of One UI 7, so far it has not landed on Windows. Samsung Internet comes to computers. Samsung officially announced the launch of “Samsung Internet” for PC. At the moment, it is a beta version compatible with Windows 10 (version 1809 or higher) and any build of Windows 11. The company has already made a failed attempt in 2023but this time the launch is final. The key. Let’s be clear: Samsung’s goal is not to steal your gigantic market share to Chrome. Rather, Samsung’s move seeks to replicate the strategy of other Big Tech like Apple with Safari: strengthen its own ecosystem with services out of the box. The goal is for the experience between a Galaxy and a laptop (like a Galaxy Book) to be seamless and frictionless. This is how it works. Synchronization with Samsung Android phones is its crown jewel. When you open it for the first time, it suggests logging in with your personal Samsung account, and so the PC browser automatically syncs: history, bookmarks, passwords saved in Samsung Pass… Until now, this required installing a dodgy Chrome extension, but that’s gone: it’s now a native feature that works without a hitch. Packed with features. Samsung hasn’t skimped on features when moving its browser to Microsoft’s operating system. Much of what makes the smartphone version popular matters: Galaxy AI – Includes navigation assistant to summarize and translate web pages. Privacy: Maintains “Smart Anti-Tracking” and “Privacy Panel”. Secret mode: its own version of incognito mode, which on Android allows you to lock yourself with a fingerprint, is present. Split View: Allows you to view two web pages side by side in the same tab. Does not break the monopoly. As expected, the South Korean has been based on the most predominant engine on the market: Chromium. This is a fundamental advantage for two reasons: compatibility with all websites and, of course, with all extensions in the Chrome Web Store. We have tried it. After downloading the installer, the process is very fast. The first startup asks to sign in with your Samsung account, offers to import bookmarks from other installed browsers, and asks if you want to activate the ad blocker. In less than a minute, the bookmarks from my phone were already on the PC. I was looking for an alternative outside of Google and this Samsung Internet is going to stay on my Galaxy for a while. Galaxy AI on Samsung Internet for PC allows you to translate and summarize web pages After a few hours of use, I have positive feelings. The interface is clean, minimalist and respects One UI design elementsSamsung’s customization layer on Android. Consistency in the design is not broken, and that is not so simple when talking about different operating systems. It feels light and fast, without the burden of extra services that others like Microsoft add to their solutions. And unlike Chrome, synchronization of open tabs between your mobile and PC is almost instantaneous. How to install it. Here comes the important part. Officially, the beta is only available to users in the United States and Korea. However, there is a direct link to the executable file, which they have shared from SamMobile. We have tested it from Spain and it works perfectly, although we have to apply a small fix for it to start: change the language and region of Windows to “English (United States)” and “United States.” Soon, when it arrives globally, it will be executed without major impediments. Cover image | Pepu Ricca for Xataka In Xataka | Change Chrome for a European alternative: step to follow and what you should take into account

What it is, how it works and how to use this internet browser with artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain to you what ChatGPT Atlas is and how it worksthe internet browser created by OpenAI. It is an alternative to Chrome and the rest of the browsers that stands out for having the artificial intelligence of ChatGPT integrated, and is used both as a search engine and to interact with the content you see. We are going to start the article by explaining what exactly this browser is like, both outside and inside. And then we will explain briefly how it works. What ChatGPT Atlas is and how it works ChatGPT Atlas is an internet browser created by OpenAI, one of the leading artificial intelligence companies. His proposal is to offer a vitaminized browser with AIso that you will be able to interact with ChatGPT at all times. The browser is based on Chromiumwhich is the same open source base that other browsers such as Brave, Microsoft Edge or Chrome itself are based on. This means that all the websites you visit will work practically as well as with the other most popular browsers. Using Chromium as a base also allows install the extensions available for Chrome. Come on, if you use extensions in Chrome, Edge or Brave, you may also be able to install them in Atlas. Other more technical advantages of this browser are that you can render pages with Blink, the Chromium engine, use its standard APIs such as tabs, history, cookies or bookmarks, nothing changes, or run JavaScript, CSS and HTML5 like in any modern browser. But the great attraction of the browser is its integration with ChatGPTwhich at launch uses the GPT-5 model, the same as the official AI app. You can use this artificial intelligence without having to open it in external tabssince it will be integrated into a native environment in the browser. The AI ​​model does not execute web code or directly access a page’s servers for security. Additionally, Interactions have limited permissions, nor do they access your data outside of the context in which you are using Atlas. Yes indeed, you have the option to activate user memory. This means that ChatGPT will remember key data about things you talk about with the AI ​​such as your interests such as personal tastes, personal contexts such as plants you may have at home, or styles. You can also deliberately ask him to remember things about you. These elements will be stored as small chunks called “facts” that you can configure in ChatGPT memory. And what is this for in Atlas? Well, it allows the browser to remember interests and browsing routines, to adapt the explanations it gives you when reading websites and documents, or to maintain coherence in different contexts such as tabs, searches, or projects. Imagine that ChatGPT has learned that you write in a digital medium about technological dissemination for beginners, as is my case. So, when you ask it to summarize a website, it will do so adapting to that context, and the explanation will be simpler and more colloquial to adapt to how you understand things. Furthermore, at combine memory with browser toolsit will remember your web projects or research, maintain styles in different sessions, remember configurations, etc. If you search for laptops, for example, you can ask them to compare the results with what you searched the previous month. How to use Atlas To download the Atlas browser, you have to go to the website chatgpt.com/es-ES/atlas. At the moment it is only available on macOS. Once you download the browser, during the installation process you will be able to import the data from another browser you have installed, such as Chrome or Safari. This data is passwords, bookmarks, history, everything. When you make the browser, you will see that it is very similar to Chrome. You will need to log in with your ChatGPT account, and then open a new tab ChatGPT will appear instead of Google to perform searches. When you do it, you will have several types of search results. By default you will see the AI ​​responses, but above there are tabs that will allow you to see website results, just like in Google, and image results. This way you won’t miss anything in your experience. The other big change is when you are browsing any website. The browser has a button Ask ChatGPT which opens a column on the right where you can ask the AI ​​anything related to the content of the website, such as a summary, or anything that comes to mind. Besides, when you select a text and right clickin the context menu you will have an option to ask ChatGPT about this content. Thus, you will be able to obtain context of words or phrases in a simple and fast way. Atlas also has a settings section where you can choose the appearance of the tabs, whether the bookmarks bar is displayed, and you can also control your browsing data and its customization. You’ll also be able to control your AI chat history directly from here, and much more. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save hours of work and do your tasks with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

Google has just integrated its AI in Chrome. It is the beginning of the end of the traditional browser

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The tools The generative is fine, but an AI that is fully integrated into our browser can be even better, Perplexity comet It is a good example. If we join the AI ​​with The most used browser in the world The potential is huge. Google has just announced one of the biggest updates for Chrome, one in which AI is the absolute protagonist. Why is it important. Microsoft Copilot in Edge, Perplexity comet, Brave… The career of the browsers with AI already has a route, but few have the draft that Chrome has (largely because it is the one that comes by default in Android). In fact, we have seen attempts to bring the AI ​​Chrome as Chatgpt Search extension either Claude’sbut Google has just taken a step that marks a turning point, not only for AI browsers, but for how we look on the Internet. Understand the context. To access Google AI you will not have to open a new tab, it will be enough to press the button that appears in the upper right corner of the browser. When joining Chrome, we can ask questions and answer taking into account the context of all the eyelashes that we have open at that time. For example, we can ask you to summarize and organize the information if we are investigating a specific topic, such as the best itinerary for a trip. It also integrates with other Google products such as Calendar, Maps or YouTube. Ia mode. It is activated in the address bar, what Google calls Omniboxand promises to change the search experience. According to Google, we can ask complex questions and deepen more on a topic, directly in the same place where we do the “normal” searches. The example that Google sets is that we are looking at mattresses and we can ask you about the guarantee policy of a specific model. At the moment this mode is activated manually, but as they point out in Ars Technicait is a step towards becoming the default mode. Goodbye to the history. One of the advantages offered by integration with Gemini is to be able to find pages that we have visited more easily. Now we have to open the record and look for it, but with Gemini we could ask something like “In which page were I looking at that gray sofa that was on offer?” And you will find it directly. Agricultural functions. This will still take a few months, but Google already anticipates some agerentic functions that promise to save us a lot of time. According to Google, “will convert 30 -minute tasks into three clicks.” Among the examples they put is to arrange an appointment in the hairdressing or make the purchase. The browser will be able to add items to the basket or send emails in our name, without having to intervene. Security. The update also improves the detection of possible fraudulent sites and will show notices to prevent us from falling into a SCAM. It will also facilitate the change of passwords that have appeared in data leaks so that we can do it in a single click, although only in places that support it. Availability. At the moment, Gemini in Chrome is available in the United States for users who have configured the English browser, both in Windows and Mac. Google says that it will reach iOS and Android apps soon. And most importantly: for the moment It can only be used if we are subscribers of Gemini Pro or Ultra. In Xataka | In case we didn’t have enough subscriptions, AI wants to add one more to our lives: your Internet browser

compete for the browser with AI to work final

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Atlassian has agreed Acquire The Browser Companythe New York startup creator of the browsers ARC and Dayfor 610 million dollars in cash. The agreement becomes the business software company owner of one of the most promising startups in the browse sector with artificial intelligence. The reception was less than they expected. The Browser Company was founded in 2019 with the ambition to reinvent the experience of web navigation. Your first product, arcarrived in 2022 with several innovative functionalities, such as its advanced tabs, integrated slate, or its ability to share eyelashes. However, only a small percentage of users took advantage of these characteristics, according to They mentioned From the CNBC. This is how the browser with the the Browser Company The turn to the AI. In June 2024, The Browser Company launched daya simpler browser but focused on artificial intelligence that allows users to interact through prompts with multiple tabs simultaneously. Day you can move data between spreadsheets, consult calendars from Gmail or take advantage of any content with URL to provide your AI models. This approach that The Browser Company opted has turned out to be the real hook for Atlassian. Why Atlassian bets on this. Mike Cannon-Broakes, CEO of Atlassian, He has been a user of ARC since its inception And since then he has dedicated a good part of his time to detect errors and ask the team more functions. Now he prepares to own the project. “Today’s browsers were not created to work, they were built to navigate,” assures Cannon-Broakes. The company sees an opportunity to combine the experience offered by software as an ARC service with the abilities of the day to create an optimized browser so that workers obtain the knowledge they need for their tasks in a easiest way. Business Strategy. Atlassian, who has more than 300,000 clients, plans to keep The Browser Company as Independent Division. Miller will continue to lead the development, although Recognize An approach change: “Before we talked a lot about shopping, make reservations, search for film schedules. That will disappear in terms of our focus,” he explains. Now they will concentrate exclusively on professional users. Between the lines. The operation arrives at a time of intense competition in browsers with AI. Perplexity has its own browserGoogle is integrating ia in Chrome At an accelerated pace, and OpenAi is supposedly close to launch a browser Based on chatgpt. What about Arc. Although Miller promises that ARC will continue to be maintained, the startup had already stopped developing new functionalities for this browser. The focus will be completely day, which promises to integrate the best characteristics of ARC. And the transition seems inevitable, since everything indicates that there is no place for two browsers in this new strategy. The perfect timing. Miller justifies the sale arguing that “the winner of the navigators space with AI will be decided in the next 12 to 24 months.” To compete, The Browser Company needed massive distribution, sales and scale organization that, according to him, “it was not something that money could buy on the temporal horizon we had.” Atlassian, with its 2.3 million monthly active users in AI capacities, offers exactly that. And now what. The agreement will be closed in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 of Atlassian, subject to regulatory approvals. The operation will be financed with cash by the company. For The Browser Company, the strategy represents both a great exit and a risky bet, since they go on to bet on a future as a work tool instead of continuing to compete for being the chatgpt of personal browsers. Cover image | Day In Xataka | I have tried the new OpenAI models. It has been a small odyssey with prize: I have a chatgpt at home

Having an AI browser that does things for you sounds good. Until a hacker uses it to steal all your money

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Ask the AI ​​to make a summary of that article that you just saw in Reddit can be very expensive. It is what They just revealed Those responsible for Brave, who have discovered a surprisingly simple way to hack the browser of the perplexity comet to do not only what the user asks, but what an attacker has managed to convince him to do. The danger of leaving everything in the hands of AI is evident. What happened. Brave’s experts, a browser that competes with Chrome or Firefox and also has AI functions, wanted to analyze the risk of using an agetic browser like the one It offers perplexity right now with Comet. And what if they have done it. The browsers with ia promise a lot. Thanks to tools like Comet – Openai too has its chatgpt agentheir of Operator-, It is possible that the browser becomes a kind of digital butler and do things for us autonomously when visiting websites. Thus, you can summarize a news, tell you which song appears in that YouTube video, look for offers, answer emails or complete purchase processes. A priori the advantages are huge, but be careful, because there are also important risks. But be careful to let go of the steering wheel. However, delegating everything in the browser can raise a real threat to the safety and privacy of our data. If we trust them too much, these browsers may have access to all our data, since theoretically they will benefit from access to our email, but also to banking and financial data and even health. What happens if the amazing model or makes mistakes? Or worse: What happens if someone modifies the content in a malicious and invisible way for ia agents to follow malicious instructions? Having the AI. That is just what They discovered in Brave When trying a simple technique. They published a malicious comment on a Reddit thread, and then asked Comet to summarize the article. When they went to do it they verified how Comet did not know whether the content of that thread could or not contain malicious instructions: he simply met them and followed them. And in thread, as can be seen in the video, there were some simple instructions that stole the credentials of their perplexity account and even intercepted the verification code that the platform sent to the user to log in the service. Result: Automatic account by the attacker thanks to the AI. How the attack works. As Brave experts explain, the problem is that the way of hacking this type of browse is not hacking the browsers, but hacking the content, something that is very, very simple. The steps are the following: Configuration: An attack writes Malicious instructions in some content on the web. If you control that site, you can hide instructions using blank text if the background is also white, or in comments or other invisible elements. They can also do it directly “injecting” those instructions through comments in publications on social networks such as Reddit or Facebook. Activation: A user sails to that website and uses the browser with AI. If you do something simple as “Summarize this page“Or ask that certain information be extracted, these malicious instructions are activated. Injection: As the AI ​​processes the information on the page, see those malicious instructions and follow them. It is not able to distinguish whether the content has a malicious purpose or not, and considers everything as part of what you should do at the request of the user. Exploitation: these malicious commands and instructions indicate to the navigator’s tools to perform various actions, such as navigating the user’s bank account, Extract stored passwords In the browser or collect information to a remote server controlled by the attacker. Possible solutions. Those responsible for the study indicate that to protect themselves from these types of problems, agricultural browsers must first differentiate between what the user has asked for and what the user content is. The content of a website “should always be treated as non -reliable.” In addition, the browser with AI should necessarily ask for the user’s interaction to perform certain actions, how to access passwords or perhaps send an email. Restrict permissions to the agetic browser and make good use of Two -step verification systems “With mobile applications such as Google Authenticator, for example,” are also adequate ways to mitigate a problem that can put in many problems the deployment of these tools. Outstanding image | Perplexity, Xataka with mockuuups studio In Xataka | I have tried day, the browser that replaces ARC and bets everything to AI. It hasn’t come out as expected

This is how Perplexity’s browser bets on the ‘fluidity of thought’

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We open dozens of eyelashes when we need to compare a price, read the news, send an email and consult the time you are going to do this week. Browsers are useful, yes, but not always friendly. You have to look for, read, copy, hit, go back, cross data, remember where we came from. Often, when we managed to do what we wanted, we no longer know how we got there. Perplexity wants to change all that. Your new browser, Comet, He has just left the incubator With a different proposal: less clicks, less eyelashes and more thought aloud. A different proposal. At first glance, Comet does not impose. It looks like any modern browser: an upper bar with tabs, navigation buttons, fast access to open a new page and a clean design. On the left side, yes, a fixed panel appears where his assistant of AI lives. Can remember to COPILOTbut what promises is something else. Comet In one of the examples shown by Perplexity herself, the user has a map of London. He asks the assistant, in natural language, to generate a walking route to visit the five main tourist places. Comet interprets the order, select the initial location – the Torre de London – and begins to build the point by point by point, directly on the map. Chrome That, that until now we did with clicks and more clicks, the browser executes it as if he knew what he has to do. And it is not limited to maps. He is also able to summarize a Reddit love, find a specific video or cross information between open tabs. All without the need to change window or install accessories. Wants to “think” like us. What Perplexity proposes with Comet goes beyond conversational search. Its commitment is to convert navigation into a kind of continuous mental flow, where tasks are chained by natural language orders. If we want me to summarize a text, it does. If we need to compare a product with similar ones, too. If we ask you to find something we read days ago, remember it. Everything happens without leaving the browser. It is as if each tab knew what we need and commissioned on their own. In one of the shared examples, you are asked to buy a forgotten product or write an email from the information present on the screen. Less noise, better decisions. Perplexity insists that Comet’s base is not only artificial intelligence, but precision. It presents it as a browser designed to answer well, not just fast. That is not limited to generating text, but provides reliable, verifiable, useful information. Because, According to the companymany of the decisions we make – especially what to read, what to buy, in what to invest or how to interpret a technology – depend on the quality of the answers we receive. Curiosity as an engine. Perplexity not only seeks to commit questions, but understand how we ask them. What interests us, how we think, at what moments we usually deviate. The idea is that the browser learn from our cognitive style to offer a more refined experience. Comet It works like this: we can highlight any text fragment and ask for an explanation on the march. It is also possible to explore related concepts without abandoning what we were reading. Ask for counterarguments, cross references, nuances. The problem, of course, is that every tool that adapts to us needs to know us very well. And that opens another conversation: that of privacy, tracking and limits of a browser that intends to think with us. Comet is already underway. Comet is now availablealthough not for everyone. Access has begun limitedly for subscribers of Perplexity Max (200 dollars a month), and will be expanded by invitation throughout the summer. Is it a threat to Chrome? What will happen when Google Integre ia browser? We will know it over time. Images | Perplexity In Xataka | Tim Cook’s right hand retires after 27 years in Apple. It does so in full crisis of the company

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