From CNET: Advertisers have steadily ramped up the use of AI tools in creating ads you see when perusing the internet. In response to this trend, Google announced a new feature on Thursday that's geared toward helping people identify when an ad was made using generative AI.

In Google's My Ad Center...

From PC Mag: The Federal Communications Commission is designating a California IT firm as a national security risk, in part because its CEO is a Chinese citizen.

Digitalsystem Technology is headquartered in the Los Angeles area, and offers enterprise services such as data center management...

From PC World: Nobody likes watching ads on YouTube, including yours truly, and most people don’t seem ready to fork over $14 per month to disable them. So it’s no surprise that YouTube is often a primary target for ad-blocking tools. DuckDuckGo, positioning itself as the anti-Google, is now proudly...

From CNET: Self-driving company Waymo added four more cities where it will service riders: Denver, San Diego, Las Vegas and Tampa. Waymo's parent company, Alphabet, announced the expansion on Wednesday.

Waymo's robotaxi service is currently available in big US cities such as San Francisco, San...

From PC Mag: Meta plans to roll out an update that disables the camera on its smart glasses if they detect that the capture light has been physically tampered with.

Meta’s AI smart glasses have raised privacy concerns over surreptitious recording. The glasses feature an LED indicator that lights up...

From PC World: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge have gained a new feature called “Selective format read,” which improves the way these browsers handle content from the clipboard, reports Android Authority.

Previously, browsers would load all the information contained in the clipboard—such as text...

From CNET: DuckDuckGo is going after YouTube ads. The privacy-focused company announced Wednesday that its free DuckDuckGo browser now blocks most video ads, including ads that run before and during YouTube videos. The new YouTube ad-blocking feature is turned on by default for iPhone, Windows and...

From Tom's Hardware: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics, the Chinese parent company of Lexar, announced that it’s expecting a net profit of $1.36 to $1.62 billion (or 9.2 to 11 billion yuan) for the first half of 2026, smashing its year-ago profit of just $2.2 million. This represents an incredible jump...

From TechCrunch: Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone.

Claude Cowork launched as a desktop app in January, but starting Tuesday it is available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. With the update, users can start a task from...

From PC Mag: It’s only been six months since Starlink received US regulatory approval for a gigabit speed upgrade, but SpaceX is already developing a next-generation Starlink constellation meant to be far larger, at 100,000 satellites, and offer even faster speeds.

On Monday, the company filed an...