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https://mastodon.social/@counternotions/115607078621499587

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing
The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use.

»`Uint8Array.prototype.toHex()`
The toHex() method of Uint8Array instances returns a hex-encoded string based on the data in this Uint8Array object.«
I've only just discovered this and I think it's a cool new feature in JavaScript. I am now surprised when almost all users have up-to-date web browsers in order to use it easily in the frontend WebDev.
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Uint8Array.prototype.toHex() - JavaScript | MDN
The toHex() method of Uint8Array instances returns a hex-encoded string based on the data in this Uint8Array object.

California law regulating web browsers could have national data privacy impact, experts say https://therecord.media/california-web-browser-law-national-implications

Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/327735/brave-now-has-over-…

Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users
Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide.

Clutch Control: An Attention-based Combinatorial Bandit for Efficient Mutation in JavaScript Engine Fuzzing
Myles Foley, Sergio Maffeis, Muhammad Fakhrur Rozi, Takeshi Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12732

Clutch Control: An Attention-based Combinatorial Bandit for Efficient Mutation in JavaScript Engine Fuzzing
JavaScript engines are widely used in web browsers, PDF readers, and server-side applications. The rise in concern over their security has led to the development of several targeted fuzzing techniques. However, existing approaches use random selection to determine where to perform mutations in JavaScript code. We postulate that the problem of selecting better mutation targets is suitable for combinatorial bandits with a volatile number of arms. Thus, we propose CLUTCH, a novel deep combinatoria…

TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or for robots (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

I use multiple Web browsers during the day, 1 for personal stuff, and another 1 (or several other ones) for work.
It has always annoyed me that I couldn't choose in which browser the links I open from other apps would be opened. So I finally searched for a tool that would just ask, and I found this: https://

Thou shalt test your #web #form #controls to make sure they work in #browser

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibms-open-source-granite-4…