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Google Senior Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer has posted a blog detailing the search giant’s efforts to comply with the European Union’s right-to-be-forgotten mandate. During the three years since the rule went into effect, Google has handled 720,000 requests for links to be removed from search engine results. The company complied with the requests about 43 […]

Development tool vendor Sencha has announced plans to release ExtReact, which will include Sencha’s ExtJS JavaScript interface components for the React framework. Kristin Brennan, VP of marketing at Sencha, said that ExtReact “will reduce time to market, remove upgrade barriers, and let developers build apps faster.” React is said to be the fastest-growing JavaScript framework. […]

Google has made two significant changes to its AdSense program that will affect websites running Google ads. First, AdSense can now remove ads from individual pages instead of only from entire sites. That means that if Google flags a page on your site for a policy violation, it can choose to stop serving ads only […]

NCTA—The Internet & Television Association, the primary lobbying group for the cable industry, has released the results of a new survey which appears to both support and oppose the industry’s stance against to the FCC’s net neutrality rules. Among those surveyed, 61 percent said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support net neutrality rules that say ISPs […]

When Microsoft releases its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update later this year, the Edge browser will have some improvements. The company hopes to speed up the browser, eliminating the lag that sometimes occurs when opening a new tab or typing a URL. In addition, the company will alter the look of the browser so that […]

It appears that bots may be posting thousands of comments opposing net neutrality on the Federal Communications Commission website. The comment section of the website now includes more than 128,000 posts with identical text asking the agency to roll back the Obama administration’s “power grab.” On the other side, there are also 18,000 identical comments […]

On Tuesday, Microsoft released updates for its Internet Explorer and Edge browsers, and the new versions flag as insecure any websites using SSL/TLS certificates signed with the SHA-1 hashing function. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox had already put similar measures in place. Since 2005, security experts have known that SHA-1 technology is vulnerable to attacks. […]

A new report from an industry-led group sponsored by the International Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) claims that poor handling of international characters in domain names is costing Web companies billions of dollars and is keeping 17 million people offline. Back in 2011, ICANN dramatically expanded the number of top-level domains and began allowing domains […]

Last year, Google added a download button to the Android version of Chrome. The feature made it possible for users to save a website for viewing at a later time when they might not have an Internet connection. According to Google, users download around 45 million websites this way every week. Now the company is […]

This week at its Build 2017 developer conference, Microsoft will conduct several sessions of interest to Web developers. For example, it will have at least three sessions on JavaScript: one devoted to building cross-platform applications with Facebook’s React Native framework; one on Microsoft’s tools for React/React Native, Relay and Litho; and one focusing on Angular’s […]

The 2016-2017 Web Salary Survey from O’Reilly Media discovered a lot of variation in Web developer income. The median salary was $78,000, “but 75 percent of respondents had a salary of at least $50,000, and 25 percent had a salary of at least $109,000.” Pay was highest in the United States and lowest in Africa, […]

The Federal Communications Commission recently rolled back privacy rules that would have prevented Internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting and selling user browser data without obtaining user permission. Troubled by the change, local officials in Seattle, Wash., passed a rule of their own that requires cable Internet vendors to get permission before using customer Web […]