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The platforms people actually spend their day in, and the product changes that quietly reshape them.
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Windows Search on Windows 11 Is About to Change Forever
The search box on the Windows 11 Taskbar has spent years doing a single job: finding apps and files. Microsoft wants it doing a dozen more, and the…
Discord stops new installations of a popular bot
One forgotten server was all it took. On Oct. 4, a hacker got into the systems behind Double Counter, a security bot used in more than 600,000 Discord…
Microsoft’s X Account Hijacked to Push a Clippy Crypto Scam
Someone took over Microsoft’s official X account and used it to promise you Clippy’s return in exchange for 500,000 likes. The bait was nostalgia. The goal was a…
What’s new in the Firefox redesign and how to get it
Mozilla has released a redesigned Firefox for desktop and mobile. It has a cleaner layout, faster access to tab groups, vertical tabs and split view, and compact mode…
How to replace 5 desktop apps with browser tools for quick jobs
If you keep full desktop apps installed for jobs you do twice a year, you can usually do those jobs in a browser tab instead. Photopea handles quick…
Apple Pay finally arrives in India after years on the sidelines
Apple Pay is now live in India, the world’s most populous country. But at launch it works with exactly one bank, and it skips the payment system most…Firefox’s redesign brings round tabs, new themes and Compact Mode
Mozilla said its new Firefox look comes with “no cost to your browser performance.” That’s the claim to watch, because a redesign that slows the browser down isn’t…
Elon Musk’s X moves bitcoin and stock trades one tap from the timeline
Tap $BTC on X today and you no longer land on a chart and a wall of replies. You land on a Trade button. That’s the whole feature,…
Google is now asking for your video selfie to prove who you are
Google wants a video of your face. And this week it started asking for it on its own home page. The prompt sits at the bottom of the…
