Have you ever been scrolling along, minding your own business, when an ad suddenly hijacks your page with a full-screen ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known as ...

The opt-in AI feature lets you use Copilot like an always-there web assistant. The opt-in AI feature lets you use Copilot like an always-there web assistant. is a former weekend editor who covered ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted the web ...