Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing ...
Android Police

Google Chrome's Reading Mode on Android gets a huge revamp to make it more seamless to use

Timi is a news and deals writer who's been reporting on technology for over a decade. He loves breaking down complex subjects into easy-to-read pieces that keep you informed. But his recent passion ...
Gothamist

NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...
Quanta Magazine

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Doc With Setting Canonical URL Advice

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Merriam-Webster Names “Slop” Word of the Year Amid AI Boom

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...
Android Authority

Mystery Samsung device might actually be the rumored wide-screen Fold 8

Model number SM-F971U, previously believed to be the Galaxy Z Flip 8 FE, was discovered in the GSMA database alongside the codename “H8.” Samsung’s model number convention suggests this phone is not a ...
CSOonline

AI browsers can be tricked with malicious prompts hidden in URL fragments

Researchers discovered that adding instructions for AI-powered browser assistants after the hash (#) symbol inside URLs can influence their behavior to leak sensitive data and direct users to phishing ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
The Verge

Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...
Mashable

Google says it isn't using your Gmail to train AI

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...
InfoWorld

Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...