Also in this week's The Beat newsletter: World Business Chicago unveils a new 10-year plan.

IonQ is bringing next-generation quantum computing technology to the University of Chicago campus, where the Maryland-based ...

The latest ClickFix attack creates a fake, full-screen Windows OS update through the browser to try and dupe the user into ...

Mozilla announced a major privacy upgrade in Firefox 145 that reduces even more the number of users vulnerable to digital ...

Chrome dominates the browser market with extenstive site compatibility and a wealth of built-in AI features, but Firefox offers strong privacy protections and other compelling advantages. Here's how ...

HP’s 14-inch AI 2025 laptop just hit an all-time low of $379 on Amazon, slashed from its usual $1,099 price tag. The kicker is that Windows 11 Pro and a year of Office 365 come pre-installed, and ...

Periodically clearing your browser data is a simple but effective digital housekeeping task that can improve performance and ...

Modern browsers' private modes offer limited privacy, deleting local history and cookies but not hiding activity from ISPs or ...

Amazon has sued Perplexity AI over unauthorised access to Amazon's e-commerce websites via its agentic AI assistant.

Virtual private networks, proxy servers and Tor all mask your public IP address differently. Here’s how to choose the right ...

Amazon wants to block you from using your own AI assistant to shop on their platform … Amazon should love this. Easier ...

Attackers are increasingly phishing over LinkedIn to reach executives and bypass email security tools. Push Security explains how real-time browser protection detects and blocks phishing across apps ...