React Native v0.85 introduces a new Shared Animation backend, enhancing the animation capabilities of applications. Upcoming features like <ViewTransition> and Skia Graphite promise to further improve user experiences.
Starting in September 2026, a new stable version of the browser will be released every two weeks, compared to every four weeks currently. According to the developers behind Chrome, the change is in line with the increasingly rapid development of the web platform. New features, bug fixes, and performance improvements should therefore become available more quickly to both end users and developers.
The Web Install API aims to fix the issue of inconsistent and proprietary mechanisms for acquiring applications by creating an open, ergonomic, standardized, and cross-platform supported way of acquiring applications.
The tools were designed to intercept users' ChatGPT session authentication tokens and send them to a remote server, but they don't exploit ChatGPT vulnerabilities to do so. Instead, they inject a content script into chatgpt.com and execute it in the MAIN JavaScript world. The script monitors outbound requests initialized by the web application, to identify and extract authorization headers and send them to a second content script, which exfiltrates them to the remote server.
I do not want AI in my web browser. I just don't. I also don't want companies collecting information about me, or sponsored content and product integrations. All those bits make me want to pull my hair out. I like my privacy and want to browse, you know, the old-fashioned way. I do use AI (on occasion), but only locally-installed AI and only for specific purposes (such as learning Python or researching a topic when I don't want to use a standard search engine).
