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Cert-In has accessed high risk Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome for Desktop.

These layoffs came just months after Google had offered voluntary buyouts to employees in the same unit in January this year.

According to Cert-In's vulnerability note, remote attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities by enticing unsuspecting users to visit specially crafted websites.

Google is introducing three new generative AI-backed features to its Chrome web browser for Mac and Windows that will help in organising tabs, writing an online review in a few clicks and creating custom themes.  

Text-to-speech Chrome extension allows users to listen to the text files. TTS Chrome extension can be added to Google Docs, PowerPoint, TXT files. Some popular text-to-speech extensions are Speechify, Natural Reader etc.

"You can already use Lens in Chrome on iOS by long-pressing an image you find while browsing." The tech giant also introduced better translations for Chrome on iOS.

Read on to find out how the latest development will help you.

Users on a Google Meet call can right-click during the conference. The video call window pops out immediately without the need for secondary extension support. The feature was first announced back in March.

Google hasn’t updated how many users were impacted by the vulnerabilities. The tech giant said that the company fixed seven bugs. CISA has also urged users to update their browsers as soon as possible.

In a help page post, Google this week confirmed that "Lite Mode" in Chrome will be going away with the v100 update which is scheduled to be released on March 29.

Users running a Chrome version older than the 97.0.4692.71 version could be at risk of a malicious attack. CERT-In explained that users should update to the latest version of Google Chrome. Google has updated the stable channel for Chrome to 97.0.4692.71 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

CERT-In in its Advisory has found Google Chrome version prior to 96.0.4664.93 to be severely affected.

The platform has also released a new Zoom for Chrome progressive web application (PWA). The PWA improves the Zoom experience for Chromebook users, giving them access to even more Zoom features on Chrome OS devices. To use it, users will need to find the PWA on the Google Play store and install it on Chrome OS.

Rolling out later this year, the built-in remote control on Android phones will work instantly for the more than 80 million Android TV OS devices, including Google TV Phone Hub also displays recent Chrome browser tabs opened on your Android phone, so you can pick up where you left off

Chrome version crashed unexpectedly on new Mac devices. Google has identified a fix. Fix will be available soon.

Google releases security updates for Chrome for Android. Update to fix Zero-Day vulnerability. This is the third Chrome Zero-Day.

Google shared a umber of improvements, including tabs that load faster and new features that let you organize and find them easily. Google has made tabs 10 percent faster in Chrome via under-the-hood performance improvements. Now the users can collapse and expand tab groups so it's easier to see the ones they need to access.

Alphabet Inc`s Google said it removed more than 70 of the malicious add-ons from its official Chrome Web Store after being alerted by the researchers last month.

In an effort to create a quicker search system in any tab, Google Chrome's team is working on 'Query Tiles' - a feature that will have several search shortcuts get the work done faster. 

Google revealed that it had turned on an experiment to improve resource usage for the stable version which had been in the beta mode for around five months.