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Details disclosure element can now auto-expand using the browser’s find on page feature

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Homebrew gets GUI with Taphouse

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A free app to visualize your subscription costs

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Firefox is adding an AI kill switch

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Google Search expands Preferred Sources for Top Stories globally

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WordPress adds notes to posts, continuing an industry trend towards more collaboration

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Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse

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You can now block specific spam referrers in Fathom Analytics

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Minimalist notes app ‘Recollect’ adds real-time collaboration

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Google adds custom annotations to Search Console

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Mastodon’s social posts are now optimized for Google Search

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Mastodon adds quote posts that prioritize user safety and privacy

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Alertmouse is a Google Alerts alternative with better monitoring, filtering, and insights

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Helium Browser

The best Chromium browser isn’t Chrome, it’s Helium

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President of Signal responds to AWS outage and user concerns

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Fastmail launches desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux

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Google forced Gemini and AI Mode into Chrome; here’s how to remove it from the browser

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Crawler Best Practices draft seeks to standardize bot behavior for all bots on the web

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Cloudflare proposes a new standard for managing AI bot access using Content Signals

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Fastmail’s webmail app now works offline, and it’s glorious!

By in Productivity News