The web platform, browsers, AI and security, taken apart: news, analysis and research from the FuriaHub team.
The August 21 changelog says a new setting removes paywalled links from results. The same release rebuilds the Stocks widget with ETFs and an animated chart, and names lens URLs such as ?lens=forums.
Google is adding a way to describe Discover preferences in plain language from a three-dot menu in the Google app. Publishers also get a Preferred Sources button that already covers more than 600,000 unique sources.
Australia passed the News Bargaining Incentive, taxing designated platforms 2.5% of advertising revenue if they lack commercial deals with local media. The rule covers Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn when they run a significant social or search service and local ad revenue exceeds A$250 million.
A new Media watermark setting in Gemini and Flow hides the sparkle mark on Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria output. Invisible SynthID and C2PA stay on the file.
Navigation API, container style queries, :open, and field-sizing hit Baseline Newly available this year. The gap between “what the platform gives you” and “what you install a package for” just got smaller again.
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