If there was one lesson to take away from Black October, it was that the internet is becoming an increasingly more dangerous place. Website vulnerabilities, data leaks, and malicious sites are just some of the dangers you might encounter on the web. To stay safe, Chrome has a powerful protection feature you should enable now.

Chrome is the most widely used internet browser on the planet. With an estimated 3.62 billion users worldwide, it is one of the most trusted ways to get to the internet. It is also one of the most targeted browsers by hackers who wish to exploit any potential flaws for personal gain.

The setting syncs to your Google account, so you only have to change it in one spot to cover all of your devices.

This is why enhanced protection mode exists. Google brought enhanced protection mode to the Chrome browser in 2020, and the company has been improving it ever since. Just this month, it added several more features to keep you safer as you surf the web.

One of those features – suspicious site warnings – can display one of two messages on your screen when a malicious website is detected.

The “suspicious sites” warning appears if Chrome believes the website might be a threat. In this case, you have the option to choose to go backward to avoid the site, or proceed at your own risk.

The “dangerous sites” warning is harder to avoid. When Chrome believes a website is dangerous with high confidence and a high risk to the user, it takes over your entire screen with a bright red warning that reads, “Attackers on the site you’re trying to visit might trick you into installing software or revealing things like your passwords, phone, or credit card numbers. Chrome strongly recommends going back to safety.” You’re only given one obvious option — a button that takes you back to safety. This ensures that you don’t accidentally reach the website and infect your device.

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When enhanced protection mode is enabled, users also now receive added ClickFix safety measures. Google describes ClickFix as “a social engineering technique that tricks users into manually copying and executing malicious commands on their own computers in order to ‘fix’ a fake issue.” For instance, if you’re on the phone with a scammer posing as tech support and they send you a message with malicious code that they want you to copy and run on your computer, Chrome can now help identify malicious copied code and display a warning to stop you from executing it.

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How to enable enhanced protection on Chrome

You can activate enhanced protection mode in Chrome either on your phone or through the browser on a laptop or desktop computer. The setting syncs to your Google account, so you only have to change it in one spot to cover all of your devices, assuming you’re logged in properly. If not, you will need to change the setting manually for every device you own.

To enable enhanced protection, open the Chrome browser on your phone or computer. I’m using a mobile phone for the sake of this guide. Tap the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of your screen. From the drop-down, choose “Settings.” On the next page, select “Privacy and security,” followed by “Safe Browsing.” On this final page, you will see three different options:

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No protection: As the label states, this setting won’t protect you from any potential threats you might run into online. Your browsing habits are wide open to dangerous websites, malicious downloaded files, and other threats that could give your device a virus or cause future trouble.Standard protection: This is Chrome’s default mode. With this setting, Chrome can help protect your device against suspicious websites, downloaded files, and even extensions.Enhanced protection: With enhanced protection, Google’s advanced AI analyzes website data in real time to scan for online threats. This feature also extends to other Google apps and services to make them safer, like emails in Gmail.

Check that enhanced protection is on, and you’re all set. Chrome will now serve as a sentry, watching over your browser activity to keep you safe from rogue sites and other online vulnerabilities that mean to do you harm.

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A biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it is engineering cells inside a living human body in hopes of one day ending genetic diseases.

The company boasted that recent trials were performed on DNA inside of a person rather than the typical method of extracting the DNA first.

‘A major milestone in gene editing.’

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is technology used to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms. A company called Prime Medicine believes it has a more efficient way of accurately editing DNA than the CRISPR method — called Prime Editing — working directly in the body.

The company says the first disorder it is tackling with live trials is an illness called Wilson disease.

Wilson disease is a rare disorder where excess copper is abnormally stored in different places in the body, most commonly causing damage to the liver, brain, or eyes.

Prime Medicine’s aim is to “rewrite faulty DNA responsible for Wilson disease that can cause severe liver and brain damage,” wrote Max Marchione, founder of DNA testing company Superpower.

Marchione called it a “major milestone in gene editing.”

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Delivered intravenously, the medicine uses PM577, an editing product using lipid nanoparticles to “correct pathogenetic … mutations through a single” injection.

Studies explain that lipid nanoparticles “are not only limited to small molecular drugs but also include biomacromolecules such as messenger RNA (mRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), and antibodies.”

PM577a is what targets the mutations and has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Wilson disease, Prime Medicine said in a press release.

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“I never dreamed that in my lifetime I would see this applied to my rare disease,” Rhonda Rowland, president of the Wilson Disease Association in Atlanta, Georgia, told Nature. “It’s going to be a really exciting year,” she added.

Prime Medicine said it intends to develop more products to address “the majority of pathogenic variants” around the world, and it is considering targeting another gene mutation, R778L, the most common in East Asian populations.

Prime Medicine is a publicly traded company currently trading around $3.65 per share at the time of this publication.

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Vice President JD Vance repeatedly torched Democrat Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday, highlighting the radical’s apparent hostility toward white Americans.

In his speech to rally-goers in Michigan, Vance hyped Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers and characterized the battle underway for Michigan’s Senate seat as a “proxy fight over whether America can be truly sovereign if it belongs to men who feel contempt and disdain and hatred for the United States of America.”

‘Michigan refuses to turn over its Senate seat to a man who would tear down this state and tear down this country.’

The vice president cast doubt on El-Sayed’s patriotism, highlighting how the American-born Democrat has previously claimed foreign ties.

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El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants, stated in a Feb. 11, 2017, speech that he is an “immigrant from North Africa.” El-Sayed also claimed Egyptian citizenship in a resume he shared on an academic networking site roughly a decade ago, reported the Washington Free Beacon.

He likewise stated previously that he has “dual citizenship,” though his campaign later claimed that he “is not a dual citizen by any verifiable metric and never has been.”

“Why would you tell people that you were not from the community that you’re actually from?” asked Vance. “It’s an insane claim to make.”

The vice president added that El-Sayed’s immigrant role-play “shouldn’t be that surprising” in light of his apparent animus toward the United States and its people.

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Vance alluded to several of El-Sayed’s controversial remarks, including his 2018 statement, “I believe we owe it to the world to open our doors, and we’re better because of it,” and his advocacy in 2020 for defunding the police.

Earlier in the day, Vance told reporters that Abdul El-Sayed is a “little bit of a psychopath” who “maybe more than any Democrat running in the nation has engaged in a kind of explicitly anti-white racial hatred.”

While the vice president did not provide specific examples, there are plenty to go on.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 Islamic terror attacks, El-Sayed reflected on what the day meant for Muslims in America. In his op-ed, El-Sayed complained about the government’s post-9/11 focus on Islamic extremism, claiming that “it deliberately left the greatest threat to our security in the shadows — missing the most common source of American terrorism, ‘homegrown’ and ‘radicalized’ white men.”

El-Sayed further claimed that “so much of our history” has been “stained” by white supremacy.

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The Democrat has also smeared Border Patrol agents as “white supremacists”; suggested American policing is rooted in white supremacy; stated “white nationalism is a lie”; and championed DEI and other race-based initiatives.

The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

During his speech in Michigan, Vance said, “We have to understand what happens when our nation gives into these kinds of people — to young men with zero attachment to its land or to its history.”

The vice president likened El-Sayed to the rootless radicals now turning France upside down, suggesting that they are animated by a similar ingratitude and contempt.

“I think that this country belongs to the people who love it enough to defend it. I think it belongs to you, ladies and gentlemen,” said Vance. “And I believe that the state of Michigan refuses to turn over its Senate seat to a man who would tear down this state and tear down this country.”

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Some said it couldn’t be done.

For much of the past two decades, the political landscape in British Columbia has been dominated by the increasingly woke, leftist New Democratic Party and supposedly moderate Liberal governments without the nerve to reduce the power of the state.

Even the emergence of Jerry Brown, derisively nicknamed ‘Governor Moonbeam,’ in the swinging ’70s did not permanently extinguish Republican political fortunes.

That all changed Saturday night.

The Conservative Party of BC and its leader, Lorne Doerkson, humiliated NDP Premier David Eby. According to preliminary results from Elections BC, the Conservatives are leading in 63 of the 93 seats in the provincial legislature, capturing 48.06% of the popular vote.

The defeat was particularly humiliating for Eby because he had called the snap election himself, two years ahead of schedule. Instead of securing a renewed mandate, he handed the Conservatives a commanding majority and announced his resignation as NDP leader.

British Columbia has long been compared to California, not only because it occupies the West Coast of North America but because it has long been associated with crazy political leaders and even crazier political movements.

Today, British Columbia is defined by massive government spending and debt, along with urban centers struggling with homelessness, public disorder, and the consequences of permissive drug policies.

Sound like San Francisco, anyone?

But British Columbia was not always so left-wing or the very picture of economic mismanagement. And neither was California. Remember Gov. Ronald Reagan?

A Conservative comeback

Doerkson has promised a new direction for the province, emphasizing economic opportunity and a government more responsive to ordinary British Columbians.

One of the most difficult battles awaiting his administration concerns the province’s increasingly contentious Indigenous land claims and the legal uncertainty surrounding private property rights.

Doerkson has promised to repeal the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The legislation, adopted in 2019 with all-party support, was intended to bring provincial laws into alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But critics argue that the law has contributed to uncertainty about the province’s obligations to Indigenous groups and the rights of other British Columbians.

Doerkson has made his position clear. Speaking after the election, he said DRIPA had failed to resolve disputes involving land and resource development and had instead contributed to continuing litigation.

Those concerns have become especially acute following a landmark ruling involving land in Richmond, a waterfront suburb of Vancouver.

In August 2025, the British Columbia Supreme Court recognized Aboriginal title held by the Cowichan Nation over approximately 732 acres of land in Richmond, including areas containing privately owned property.

The ruling raised serious questions about the relationship between Aboriginal title and conventional property ownership. Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie warned that the decision undermined the reliability of the province’s land-title system.

“The Court’s untenable decision cannot remain unchallenged,” Brodie said in the city’s announcement of its appeal.

The city appealed, as did the provincial and federal governments. The Canadian government has acknowledged that the ruling could have significant implications for private property rights and that greater legal clarity is needed.

The decision did not order homeowners to vacate their properties. Nevertheless, it has alarmed property owners who believed their registered titles provided secure ownership.

For Doerkson, the controversy presents a formidable challenge. Indigenous land rights are constitutionally protected in Canada, and overlapping territorial claims have long complicated questions of ownership, development, and government authority in British Columbia.

His government will have to navigate those obligations while addressing the concerns of property owners who fear that the rules governing their homes and businesses are changing beneath their feet.

BC wasn’t always socialist

One mistake commentators make is assuming that British Columbia has somehow been socialist for the past century because the last government elected under the Conservative Party banner dates to 1928.

In fact, much of the province’s modern history was dominated by the BC Social Credit Party, which was conservative and populist.

Social Credit governed British Columbia for all but three years between 1952 and 1991.

W.A.C. Bennett was premier from 1952 to 1972. His son, Bill Bennett, became premier in 1975 after three years of NDP government under Dave Barrett. The Socreds remained in power until 1991, when the NDP defeated them.

The BC Liberal Party, which subsequently became the province’s de facto center-right party, took power in 2001 and governed until 2017.

So the notion that British Columbia is naturally or permanently left-wing is nonsense. Conservative governments have governed the province for much of its modern history, even when they operated under different party names.

Doerkson’s victory is remarkable, but it is hardly without historical precedent.

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Could California follow?

So can this kind of political phenomenon happen in woke, leftist California, a state struggling with enormous fiscal pressures and a myriad of destructive progressive social policies?

You can only push people toward the edge of a cliff for so long before they begin to push back.

California was Ronald Reagan country. He governed the state from 1967 to 1975. The Golden State supported Republican presidential candidates in nine of the 10 elections between 1952 and 1988, including Richard Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Even the emergence of Jerry Brown, derisively nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” in the swinging ’70s did not permanently extinguish Republican political fortunes.

Republicans George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson subsequently governed California for a combined 16 years. Arnold Schwarzenegger, another Republican, won the governorship in the 2003 recall election and was re-elected in 2006.

California’s present Democrat dominance is therefore a relatively recent development in the state’s political history.

Of course, British Columbia and California have different political systems. The BC Conservatives benefited from a parliamentary system in which winning a majority of legislative seats delivers control of the government. California Republicans would have to overcome entrenched Democrat advantages in statewide elections.

But British Columbia’s election demonstrates that political dominance can evaporate when voters become sufficiently dissatisfied with the people governing them.

Eby thought he could strengthen his position by calling an early election. Instead, voters delivered a Conservative majority and sent him packing. California’s Democrats might want to take notice.

If British Columbia can turn its political fortunes around, why not California?

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A 31-year-old gun-control activist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly vandalizing the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

Johnathan Andrew Tijerina is accused of spray-painting the address of his anti-gun website over the engraved names of some of the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.

‘To deface this sacred site is absolutely disgusting and deeply disrespectful to the victims.’

A source familiar with the matter told Blaze News that the Port Authority Police Department received a tip from the 9/11 Memorial Museum around 5 p.m. on Monday that an individual had been detained in connection with vandalism of memorial panels on the north side of the memorial’s north reflecting pool.

Tijerina was placed under arrest by PAPD officers, then later transferred to Manhattan Central Booking, said the source. He has been charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti.

According to police, the vandalism caused over $2,550 in damage and was caught on camera, reported the New York Daily News.

The incident was also witnessed by a 16-year-old tourist from the United Kingdom, who told CBS News New York, “I saw somebody with red spray-paint, and they sprayed ‘just stop killing kids’ over some of the names.”

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“And then within, like, less than a minute, the police came and arrested him,” he added.

Tijerina appears to have filmed himself admitting guilt.

In a video shared to the Instagram account for the suspect’s anti-gun group, a man standing in front of the memorial states, “My name is John Tijerina, and I’ve just spray-painted ‘Just stop killing kids’ on the 9/11 Memorial.”

In a statement, Just Stop Killing Kids characterized the suspect as an “experienced civil-resistance organizer” and claimed that “this recent action draws on a tradition of nonviolence intended to compel government action.”

A spokesperson for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum said in a statement obtained by CBS News, “The 9/11 Memorial is a sacred place of reflection at the heart of a rebuilt World Trade Center that honors the 2,983 victims killed in the September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, terrorist attacks. Yesterday’s brief incident was swiftly addressed by security staff and law enforcement, and the impacted area was immediately restored to its commemorative state.”

The defacement of the memorial, which is located at the site of the former World Trade Center complex, prompted outrage — especially among individuals whose friends and loved ones are commemorated by the memorial.

“I wear on my wrist the names of more than a hundred friends and colleagues who lost their lives in the attacks 25 years ago. Their memory, and the memory of every innocent life lost that day, deserves the utmost respect,” Ret. Col. Thomas Sullivan, a Republican running for election to the New York State Assembly, said in a statement to Blaze News.

“As a survivor of the attacks who went on to fight in the Global War on Terror, I know firsthand the significance of this memorial. It is hallowed ground, a place of remembrance and reflection,” continued Sullivan. “It should be treated with the dignity and respect that those we lost deserve.”

“To deface this sacred site is absolutely disgusting and deeply disrespectful to the victims, their families, and everyone who continues to carry the weight of that tragic day,” added Sullivan. “The individual responsible must be identified, apprehended, and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

“This is the Mamdani effect,” wrote New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R).

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt noted, “I don’t recall this ever happening before Mamdani and AOC were seen laughing at the memorial on national TV.”

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