PCWorld reports that YouTube is rolling out 30-second unskippable ads globally on TV platforms, adding to existing 6-second and 15-second formats. Google AI will optimize and personalize these longer ...

PCWorld reports that YouTube is deliberately disabling core features like comments and descriptions for users with active ad blockers installed. These aggressive anti ...

More websites and messenger apps are becoming inaccessible in Russia. While users look for ways around government bans, others wonder what will ultimately remain of the internet. Russia's internet ...

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...

Following YouTube’s recent Google Labs AI-generated “Portraits” tests, the social video-sharing platform is now planning to bring AI-generation to Shorts, allowing creators to post videos using their ...

TL;DR: YouTube now uses AI to automatically upscale videos below 1080p to HD, improving viewing on high-resolution displays. Creators can opt out, and viewers can disable upscaling, which is labeled ...

YouTube said it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021. The number of YouTube channels making more than $100,000 from TV screens jumped 45% year over year, ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

A hot potato: YouTube is once again cracking down on those who use ad blockers. The Google-owned company has been implementing measures to combat third-party extensions for years, and it has just ...

Brian Fuhrer stared at the numbers in front of him and was certain somebody had made a mistake. It was the summer of 2017, and the veteran Nielsen data cruncher was in Tampa reviewing the results from ...