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The Death of innerHTML: How Firefox 148’s setHTML() API Rewrites the Rules on Cross-Site Scripting Defense

For more than two decades, web developers have relied on innerHTML to inject dynamic HTML content into web pages. It was simple, intuitive, and wildly dangerous. Now, with the release of Firefox 148, Mozilla has thrown its weight behind a new browser-native API called setHTML() that promises to eliminate one of the most persistent and damaging classes of web vulnerabilities: cross-site scripting, or XSS. The move marks a significant moment in browser security, one that arrives with broad cross-browser consensus and years of standards work behind it.

Your Wrist Could Save Your Life: How Wear OS Smartwatches Just Gained Standalone Earthquake Alerts

Google has quietly rolled out a significant update to its Wear OS platform that allows smartwatches to receive earthquake early warning alerts independently of a paired smartphone. The feature, which was first spotted by users and confirmed through recent software updates, represents a meaningful expansion of public safety infrastructure to the wrist — and it could prove lifesaving in situations where seconds matter and a phone isn’t within reach.

Waymo Hits the 10-City Mark: Inside Alphabet’s Quiet Conquest of American Roads

Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary Waymo has reached a milestone that would have seemed improbable just a few years ago: its robotaxis are now operating in 10 U.S. cities, a rapid expansion that signals the company’s growing confidence in its driverless technology and its determination to outpace a field of competitors scrambling to keep up.

Oura Ring’s AI Assistant Finally Learns to Read the Room—and Your Body

For years, Oura Ring wearers have strapped on one of the most sophisticated health-tracking devices on the market, only to find that the company’s artificial intelligence advisor lacked access to the very data the ring was collecting. That contradiction is now being addressed in a significant update that gives Oura’s AI assistant, known as Oura Advisor, the ability to actually interpret and respond to users’ personal health metrics in real time.

The Hidden Danger Lurking in Your Browser: Why Auto-Fill May Be the Biggest Security Hole on Your Computer

Every day, hundreds of millions of internet users click through websites, filling out forms for everything from online shopping to banking. And most of them rely on a feature so convenient it has become second nature: auto-fill. The browser remembers your name, your address, your credit card number, and even your passwords, offering them up with a single click or keystroke. But that convenience comes at a steep price — one that most users never consider until it is too late.

The $60 AI Resume Writer That Promises a Lifetime of Job Applications: Inside FirstResumeAI’s Bet on Career-Long Software

For job seekers weary of rewriting their resumes for every posting, a new artificial intelligence tool is making an unusual pitch: pay once, use it forever. FirstResumeAI, a relatively new entrant in the AI-powered career tools market, is currently offering a lifetime subscription for $59.97 — a steep discount from what the company says is a regular price of $324.

Britain’s New Media Rulebook: How the UK Plans to Regulate Netflix, Amazon, and Disney Like Traditional Broadcasters

The United Kingdom is preparing to impose broadcast-style regulation on major streaming platforms, a sweeping policy shift that would bring companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Disney+ under the same oversight framework that has governed the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 for decades.

The Anatomy of a Winning Paid Search Ad: How Top Marketers Are Outwriting Their Competition in 2025

For years, paid search advertising has been treated as a mechanical exercise — plug in keywords, set bids, and wait for clicks. But as cost-per-click rates continue to climb across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, the copywriting behind each ad has become the single most controllable variable separating profitable campaigns from money pits. A growing body of practitioner insight now suggests that the art and science of writing paid search ads deserves far more strategic attention than most marketing teams give it.

Intuit’s Bold Enterprise Bet: How the TurboTax Giant Is Reinventing Itself as an AI-Powered Business Platform

For decades, Intuit Inc. has been synonymous with tax preparation software and small-business bookkeeping. TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma have made the Mountain View, California-based company a household name among consumers and freelancers. But under CEO Sasan Goodarzi, Intuit is making an aggressive push into territory long dominated by the likes of SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce: the mid-market and enterprise software space, powered by artificial intelligence.

How a Secret Intelligence Briefing on a Taiwan Invasion Sent Tim Cook Scrambling to Diversify Apple’s Supply Chain

In one of the most consequential private briefings in recent corporate history, America’s top intelligence officials reportedly laid out a chilling scenario for Apple CEO Tim Cook: China could move on Taiwan far sooner than most business leaders assumed, and Apple — with its overwhelming dependence on Taiwanese and Chinese manufacturing — stood to lose everything.