@axbom@axbom.meCalifornia 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
Try-Mopsa: Relational Static Analysis in Your Pocket
Rapha\"el Monat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13128 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13128
Redefining Website Fingerprinting Attacks With Multiagent LLMs
Chuxu Song, Dheekshith Dev Manohar Mekala, Hao Wang, Richard Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12462 https://
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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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Als je een AI browser gebruikt zoals die van OpenAI, die met je meeleest en alles onthoudt, is er dan sprake van scrapen? 🤔 En als dit geen scrapen is, dan lijkt me het handhaven van een scrapingsverbod voor AI moeilijk worden. Gebruikers zullen in de nabije toekomst hun browser namelijk vragen op de achtergrond wat "browse werk" voor hun te doen.
AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-ai-browsers-sneak-past-blockers-and-…