Google releases new privacy controls for activity history, personalization

Google is rolling out new privacy controls for Search services and Google Play, giving you more control over saved history ...

Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for ...

CleanFinder brings browser-based genome editing analysis to labs without coding

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

I replaced Google Search with DuckDuckGo and Perplexity - my results were noticeably better

With Google now a cesspool of AI-generated answers, here's how to work smarter: DuckDuckGo and Perplexity are the best ...
The Next Web

Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

Project Valhalla’s value classes are heading to JDK 28, a 197,000-line change that rewrites how Java handles object identity. Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement ...
Wired

How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps. Given the ubiquity and popularity of the PDF, it's no surprise that commercial PDF ...
ZDNet

I found an easy way to automatically keep AI out of my search results - and it works in nearly every browser

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The Next Web

Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching

Google’s I/O 2026 overhaul turns Search into an AI answer engine that keeps users on the results page. Zero-click searches now account for 60 per cent of queries, and publisher traffic is collapsing ...
Detroit Free Press

Google makes change to implement AI. Here's how

Google Search is getting the "biggest update" to the platform in more than 25 years, the tech giant announced, as its search bar is changing to include artificial intelligence capabilities. At Google ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

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Mashable

Here's how Google Search is changing forever

At last year's Google I/O event, we (and most outlets) modestly declared that the Google Search we had known for the past 20 years was dead. Fast forward a year, and it's still really, really dead.