It’s increasingly becoming evident that security codes sent by text message may leave our data less secure than we thought. Fortunately, there are other, more secure ways to keep your accounts safe.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91354942/security-codes-not-safe-text-message-sms-2fa-mfa-account-vulnerable-authenticator-app-password-passkey

Windows 11's Family Safety feature is supposed to block certain websites from children, but apparently it's also been causing issues with Google's Chrome browser.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/windows-parental-controls-are-crashing-chrome-heres-the-workaround

Vivaldi browser not only provides the browsing experience you want by default, it also includes many built-in productivity tools that are great for power users.

https://www.xda-developers.com/using-these-built-in-tools-vivaldi-productivity-skyrocketing/

When it comes to AI, Apple can't catch a break. After facing repeated delays and misfires relating to the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple's shareholders are suing the company over AI rollout delays they claim cost them nearly a trillion dollars.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/20/apple-shareholders-sue-over-siri-delays-and-massive-losses

Gemini on Android was updated to launch the Google app’s excellent “Song Search” capability. This opens the fullscreen interface with a pustulating sphere, with results opening the Google app.

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/19/gemini-app-song-search/

From an extensive arsenal of extensions to rapid security updates, there are plenty of reasons why Safari users should consider switching to Chrome.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2819646/attention-safari-users-here-are-8-reasons-to-switch-to-chrome.html

Cloudflare’s new feature called AI Labyrinth flips the script on AI bots by feeding them an endless series of AI-generated pages.

https://www.xda-developers.com/cloudflare-feature-stops-ai-bots-scraping-site/

“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” Dia is a new-age web browser that heavily relies on AI. There are still a few unknowns, especially the privacy aspect.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/i-loved-this-ai-first-web-browser-but-experts-warned-me-of-free-ai/

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s Family Safety feature, primarily used by parents and schools as a set of parental controls and filters, started randomly blocking Google’s Chrome browser from opening on Windows.

https://www.theverge.com/news/690179/microsoft-block-google-chrome-family-safety-feature

Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target's web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/tech-support-scammers-inject-malicious-phone-numbers-into-big-name-websites/

DuckDuckGo has enhanced the extensive free protections in its desktop and mobile web browsers to address new kinds of scams and other online threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/322306/duckduckgo-updates-web-browser-with-enhanced-scam-protection

Gmail users should be paying attention to two security upgrades they can – and should – be making to their accounts in order to protect themselves: activating two-step verification and replacing your password with a passkey. Here's how.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/if-youre-a-gmail-user-its-time-to-implement-these-critical-security-steps

There’s finally a reason to use Copilot instead of ChatGPT on your PC. Copilot Vision is finally available natively within Windows: You can now share any app on your PC with the Copilot AI chatbot and then have a conversation about it.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4007737/copilot-chatgpt-windows-pcs.html

If you're a fan of open-source software, you'll be thrilled to know that there's plenty of FOSS software available for Android. Here are 6 from among the best ones.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-6-favorite-open-source-android-apps-from-the-google-play-store-and-why-that-matters/

Mozilla is making its first official move toward AI-powered search in Firefox. As part of a new experiment, Perplexity AI is now being offered as an optional search engine directly in the browser’s address bar. Here’s how to try it.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/firefox-quietly-starts-testing-perplexity-ai-as-a-built-in-search-engine/

People are starting to find unannounced iOS 26 features that are nice little additions. One of the latest discoveries is that iOS 26 offers to autofill verification codes sent to their Gmail and WhatsApp apps.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2817737/ios-26-will-now-autofill-verification-codes-from-gmail-and-whatsapp.html

Google has been testing a new way for websites to ask permission to access sensitive browser controls, such as the microphone and camera. Despite longstanding opposition from Mozilla and Apple, Mozilla now appears to be warming to the changes.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/googles_fix_web_permissions_mozilla/

Starting with iOS 26, every website added to the Home Screen via Safari opens as a web app, even if it is not configured to be.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/18/safari-changes-on-ios-26/

Threads has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads.

https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

Decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its terms of service to bar any kind of model training. The new terms, which will apply starting July 1, have legal language that prohibits any data extraction and development of an automated system.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/