Almost every Black woman or girl has, at some point, purchased hair extensions for box braids, boho braids, twists or faux locs. For many Black women, these “protective styles” are worn year-round to ...

Your web browser may feel like a safe place, especially when you install helpful tools that promise to make your life easier. But security researchers have uncovered ...

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators. An ...

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DOZENS OF POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN POPULAR PRODUCTS, MANY OF THEM UNDISCLOSED. FIVE INVESTIGATES BRITTANY JOHNSON BREAKS DOWN WHAT THEY FOUND AND WHY THIS MATTERS. BRITTANY. WELL, ERIKA.

A new study published Feb. 11 in the American Chemical Society journal Environment & Health has found that synthetic and human hair extensions, popular among Black communities, contain more chemicals ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

PCWorld reports that over 840,000 users were infected by malicious browser extensions containing GhostPoster malware hidden in extension logos. These harmful extensions operated undetected in official ...

Malicious Google Chrome extensions have stolen large language model (LLM) conversations and browser data from hundreds of thousands of users. Application security vendor Ox Security detailed a ...

Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google ...