Microsoft has started rolling out a new scareware blocker in its Edge browser this week. The AI-powered feature runs on Windows PCs and can identify and block existing scams, and even detect new and emerging ones thanks to a local machine learning model.

Edge's new scareware blocker aims to protect you from malicious websites that try to scam you through fear tactics. Here's how to opt in.

Microsoft is rolling out "scareware blocker," which uses machine learning to identify a very specific and pervasive type of online scam.

A new security feature for Microsoft Edge is now available for preview, helping people overcome scareware scams.

Microsoft Edge's Scareware blocker is a local AI model designed to help users avoid annoying and dangerous full screen pop-ups while browsing the web.

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams.

Microsoft said today that its recently announced Scareware blocker in Edge is now available in preview on Windows.

Microsoft Edge 133 is now rolling out globally, and it ships with several improvements, including a new scareware blocker feature. In addition, Microsoft is updating the backend of the Downloads UI with performance improvements.

Let’s say you want to uninstall Microsoft’s Edge browser. Fair enough, Windows is supposed to allow you at least some control over your programs, and most people use Chrome. So you search Bing for “How to uninstall Edge,