At least 15 malicious plugins found on the JetBrains Marketplace were designed to steal AI API keys from developers. The campaign, discovered by Aikido Security, includes plugins that act as AI coding ...

Search engines have quietly become one of the most useful real-time data sources on the internet. For developers and data teams, live search engine results offer a practical way to track changes ...

If you open the Start menu, start typing, and Windows 11 stuffs your results with Bing links and “Search the web” suggestions, this guide shows you how to stop it and keep local-only results. The fix ...

Businesses that depend on search engine data face a recurring infrastructure problem. Extracting clean results from Google, Bing, and other engines at scale without triggering IP bans, solving ...

Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 setting that would let users turn off Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions in Search. The feature has not shipped publicly, but it could reduce reliance ...

Microsoft is about to let users turn off one of the most annoying features on Windows 11. Currently, whenever a PC user wants to perform a local search for files on their computer, Windows 11 also ...

Windows Search has been a sore spot for users going on years, and the frustration is easy to explain. At some point, Microsoft decided that searching for a local app or a buried folder was also a ...

Microsoft has announced Web IQ at Build 2026, a new suite of AI-native grounding APIs designed to help AI applications and autonomous agents access up-to-date information from the web when generating ...

AI agents now have a dedicated search infrastructure separate from the one built for human users. Microsoft confirmed on June 2, 2026, in a post on the Bing Search Blog authored by Knut Risvik, ...

Web IQ is a set of grounding APIs that let AI systems pull information from Bing's search index. Microsoft says the system returns passages rather than full pages, reducing the amount of context AI ...

The default mode for presenting web results in Windows 11 search has been criticized for adding clutter, needlessly promoting Microsoft Bing, and slowing down the OS. Web results can also confuse ...

Warning: Editing the Windows Registry incorrectly can cause system instability. Export a backup before making any changes — steps 2–3 below walk you through this. This method creates a ...