Midnight Web by Rahul Banerjee

Google on Tuesday unveiled its new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, which brings significant changes to how the search engine works. It means more artificial intelligence everywhere, including in search results. Google promises that the new model will improve its existing AI summaries and AI Mode. Initially, the Gemini 3 will be available to paying customers in the United States. Google is adding AI because the company fears that Chat GPT and similar AI bots will replace it in information search, and now wants to offer quick answers to everything like them. Google used to be a search engine, now it's striving to become an answer engine. This is problematic in many ways. Already now, Google users in USA are increasingly seeing an artificial intelligence summary at the top of their search results. Many users are content with this summary instead of going to research the sources of information themselves. There are plenty of pitfalls: First, AI can make things up, or h...

Microsoft just confirmed a nasty bug that can randomly fire up the BitLocker recovery screen on Windows 11 25H2, 24H2, and even Windows 10. Boom you’re staring at a blue screen demanding your 48-digit recovery key. Don’t, have it? Kiss your data goodbye. The silver lining: That key is usually auto-saved to your Microsoft account. Log in at account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey and grab it before you panic. The updates that broke it: Win 11 25H2, 24H2 - KB5066835 & Win 10 22H2 - KB5066791 A fix is rolling out now. Home users will get it automatically; enterprise folks, your IT crew will have to push it manually. Bonus nerd note: Run powercfg /a in an admin Command Prompt. If you see Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) , your machine uses Modern Standby . Microsoft hasn’t said a word about the connection, but here’s my take: The October 2025 updates probably messed with the boot chain or Secure Boot validation. On Intel + Modern Standby (S0) rigs, the update path failed to s...

  The feature, powered by a local computer vision model, now protects users from scam pop-ups long before traditional security systems can react. Scareware, the kind of scam that locks your screen with fake “Virus Alert!” or “Your PC is infected” messages, has plagued users for years. Edge’s Scareware blocker identifies these full-screen scam pages instantly, shutting them down before panic sets in. Microsoft says the model runs locally on devices with at least 2 GB RAM and four CPU cores, ensuring it won’t slow down browsing. Enterprise admins can also improve the feature or create allow-lists for internal sites. During preview testing, the blocker proved highly effective. Microsoft claims that users were protected hours or even days before those same scams appeared on global blocklists. Starting with Edge version 142, a new “scareware sensor” takes protection a step further. When Edge detects suspicious full-screen activity, it can immediately notify Microsoft Defender Smar...