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Google is expanding its recurring billing policy to allow certified U.S. online pharmacies to promote prescription drugs with subscriptions and bundled services. What’s happening. Certified merchants can now offer: Prescription drug subscriptions — recurring billing for prescription medications. Prescription drug bundles — combining drugs with services like coaching or treatment programs, as long as the drug is the primary product. Prescription drug consultation services — recurring consults to determine prescription eligibility, either standalone or bundled with medications. Requirements for eligibility. Merchants must maintain certified status, submit subscription costs in Merchant Center using the [subscription_cost] attribute, include clear terms and transparent…

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Snapchat launched all the way back in 2011, and has had quite the journey since: It practically invented the stories format that every social media platform uses, and helped drive the shift from public and permanent online sharing to the more private and temporary approach most of us prefer today.The app is also packed with more features than you might be aware of—in fact, it could reasonably claim to be the most capable and versatile social media app out there. From location alerts and data saving, to custom notifications and clever camera tricks, here’s how to get the most out…

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Nvidia has partnered with a variety of global telecom providers for a commitment to build 6G on open and secure artificial intelligence-native platforms, bringing software-defined networking to telecommunications. Announced at the Mobile World Congress conference, the list of Nvidia partners is a who’s who of telecom — Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile. Initial trials for 6G are expected to start as early as 2028, and the new network is expected to launch commercially around 2030. “Unlike 5G, 6G is being born in the AI era,…

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Ravie LakshmananMar 02, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome that could have permitted attackers to escalate privileges and gain access to local files on the system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0628 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case of insufficient policy enforcement in the WebView tag. It was patched by Google in early January 2026 in version 143.0.7499.192/.193 for Windows/Mac and 143.0.7499.192 for Linux. “Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView tag in Google Chrome prior to 143.0.7499.192 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious…

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There was a time when the Android community was obsessed with modding and customizing their devices. A seemingly endless stream of custom ROMs allowed you to replace your phone’s default OS. For an Android enthusiast, it was like walking into a candy shop. Sadly, those golden days of Android are in the past, but I like reminiscing about their charm. CyanogenMod One of the big OGs CyanogenMod was the first Android ROM I ever tried, and I used it daily for the better part of a year. I had a Samsung Galaxy Europa in middle school, which stopped receiving official…

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Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain blocklist service, security patches for OpenSSL and glibc, and a range of component updates. The kernel has been rebased on Linux 6.18.7 LTS, bringing updated hardware security mitigations alongside network throughput and latency improvements. Linux developers deprecated ReiserFS support in this kernel line, and IPFire installations running on that filesystem cannot apply the update without first reinstalling on a supported filesystem. IPFire DBL enters beta The release introduces IPFire DBL, a domain blocklist the…

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How frequently do pages ranking in the SERPs get cited in AI Overviews?We analyzed 1.9M citations last year in an attempt to answer that question.But, as with everything AI-related, a lot has changed since then.For instance, as of January 2026, AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 3 to better answer searchers’ long-tail questions—having previously relied on earlier Gemini models, including 2.5 variants.Since that last study we’ve also improved our parsing methodology in Ahrefs, so that we can see even more of the citations that appear in AI Overviews.So, we decided it was time to update our findings to better answer that…

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Tech loves a clean narrative; Genius builds the thing, the thing changes the world, everyone claps, and roll credits. The story of Terry A. Davis refuses to behave that way. Because yes, he built an entire operating system largely by himself. Yes, he wrote his own programming language to go with it. Yes, the technical achievement still makes seasoned developers raise an eyebrow and quietly mutter, “okay, that’s… a lot.” But this is not a triumphant startup story. It’s messier than that. More human. And, at points, genuinely uncomfortable to sit with. TempleOS didn’t come out of a polished lab…

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SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on a national book tour.  In Privacy’s Defender, Cohn weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users, innovators, whistleblowers, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and the fight against FBI gag orders.   The book will be Cohn’s swansong…

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