Alex Kantrowitz interviews Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about the web’s rapid shift toward AI-driven traffic, the future of online publishing, and the risks for small businesses. Prince says automated requests have already surpassed human browsing and could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years, forcing major changes to infrastructure and internet economics.
Microsoft released a security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 151 on August 25, 2026. The package adds six enforced isolation and data-protection policies plus one optional HTTPS setting for evaluation. For a summary of what each control does and why Microsoft recommends it, see Microsoft Edge 151 baseline adds six security controls. This article focuses on how to deploy and verify those settings in Active Directory and Intune.
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Firefox 155 and Thunderbird 155 are the first products to arrive under Mozilla’s new two-week release cadence, landing only days after the previous builds. The change follows Thunderbird’s move to fortnightly releases after version 153 became the ESR baseline, giving administrators a choice between rapid features and slower, security-focused maintenance.
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is incorrectly classifying legitimate Google search URLs as malicious, blocking users with “Opening this website might not be safe” warnings. Microsoft is investigating the Safe Links incident, tracked as MO1465962, while administrators may also see related detections in the Defender portal and Microsoft Sentinel.
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Microsoft has clarified Microsoft Edge Linux support by publishing exact distribution requirements for the 64-bit systems it officially tests. The supported baseline includes Ubuntu 18.04 or later, Debian 10 or later, Fedora 33 or later, and openSUSE Leap 15.5 or later.
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Google has completed its permanent Manifest V2 purge from the Chrome Web Store. Existing MV2 extensions may continue running on older Chrome installations, but they can no longer receive updates, be reinstalled after removal, or be recovered from Google if an administrator or user deletes them.
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Cloudflare has launched Adaptive Intelligence, a Bot Management engine that continuously retrains on live traffic and changes its detection logic as attackers adapt. The system is designed not merely to block bots, but to make repeated automation attempts slower, less predictable, and increasingly expensive to operate.
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Microsoft Edge 152 begins a faster major-release schedule that will deliver browser updates every two weeks instead of every four. The change also affects WebView2, while organizations that need more time to test releases can remain on Edge’s eight-week Extended Stable channel.
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Microsoft Edge 152 can now automatically unsubscribe users from push notifications sent by websites that Microsoft Defender SmartScreen blocks as scams, phishing pages, or malware. The Stable release also completes Edge’s shift to a two-week major-release cycle and adds Apple account sign-in on Windows and macOS.
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