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Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring

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By: Emma Roth
An image of AI form filling within Firefox’s Smart Window

Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms based on your open tabs. As an example, Mozilla says Smart Window can pull information from your online portfolio or LinkedIn page to paste your work history into a job application.

You can try out this feature by clicking into a form with at least four text fields. From there, you'll see an option to "Fill from sources," which will show all of the tabs Firefox will draw from. You can then select or deselect tabs that you want Firefox to use, and the browser will generate suggestions based on the informati …

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Zen Browser is the Arc replacement I was looking for

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By: Terrence O’Brien
Zen Browser showing a Wikipedia tab in a pop-over Glance view.
Launcher-like pinned tabs, pop-over glance view, and more make Zen my go to browser. | Image: Zen Browser

I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design. Atlassian bought the company last year and shifted its focus to developing Dia, its even more AI-focused browser. And soon enough, Arc will officially be no more, leaving dedicated users in a lurch. But I abandoned Arc quite some time ago for the Zen Browser and haven't really missed it. If you're willing to deal with some minor inconveniences, I think you'll find Zen is the Arc replacement you're looking for.

Zen unabashedly rips off all the best bits of Arc. Visually, they'r …

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A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today

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By: Jess Weatherbed
Cybersecurity illustration by Carlo Cadenas.
This PHP issue sounds like a pretty huge problem. | Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge

Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could wreak havoc on the internet if left unchecked. In an advisory published on Tuesday, PHP developers said the vulnerabilities have a severity rating of 9.2 out of a possible 10, with some cybersecurity agencies encouraging websites to temporarily take their systems offline if they're unable to apply the fix immediately.

The security patch is expected to drop today at 10AM ET - though the developers say they may release it earlier if the vulnerability deta …

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