Mikael Markander

6 days ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

Secure Annex cybersecurity researcher John Tuckner has identified 57 malicious Chrome extensions that can be used to track your activities or run malware. Although most of the extensions in question aren’t available on the Chrome Web Store, they’ve still been downloaded over 6 million times, BleepingComputer reports.

1 week ago | computerworld.com | Mikael Markander

OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to Engadget, This means that users can upload sketches or diagrams, for example, and even if they are of low quality, o3 and 04-mini will understand what is meant. The new models are also capable of generating images and browsing on their own. A Chat GPT Plus, Pro or Team subscription is required to use the o3- and 04-mini models.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

A few days ago, on April 14, the infamous internet forum known as 4chan.org was subjected to a major hacking attack, which took down the site and made it inaccessible. As of this writing, the site remains down. 4chan has been embroiled in a long series of controversies since its launch in 2003. As an anonymous forum, it has developed its own unique flavor of edgy internet counterculture.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

Two years ago, Microsoft replaced the built-in PDF reader in the Edge browser, but the fact is that many users have continued sticking with the old legacy PDF reader to this day. Back in 2023, the PDF engine in Edge was switched over to Adobe’s PDF engine, but the rollout only made it the default engine on consumer devices. Business devices had to opt into the new engine, while consumer devices could switch back by tweaking a browser flag setting.

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Mikael Markander |Joel Lee

If you use Microsoft Edge as one of your browsers and if you want to get the most out of it, you should update it as soon as possible. According to a recent Microsoft Edge dev blog post, version 134 (released in March) is up to 9 percent faster than previous versions as measured by Speedometer 3.0, which is an open-source benchmark that measures browser performance for real-world scenarios (e.g., the responsiveness of a web app with simulated workloads).