LinkedIn scanning users’ browser extensions sparks controversy and two lawsuits

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running.
The Next Web

LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...
InfoWorld

Local-first browser data gets real

Wasm, PGlite, OPFS, and other new tech bring robust data storage to the browser, Electrobun brings Bun to desktop apps, ...

This smartphone browser might finally kill Chrome on your Windows laptop (and it's not what you think)

Unlike Google Chrome, the Samsung browser offers a built-in ad blocker. It asks whether you want to enable the ad blocker ...
India.com

Internet blackout, disruption in daily activities likely to hit India as Iran threatens to cut internet cables in Red Sea

New Delhi: The conflict involving Iran, the US, and Israel has now escalated to a new level. Recently, Iran issued a warning that it could sever the internet cables laid beneath the Red Sea. If this ...
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Eloquent javascript : a modern introduction to programming

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building ...