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On Thursday, the Senate voted 50-to-48 to pass a bill that will allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to continue selling data about their customers’ Web browsing and app usage. The vote split largely along party lines with Republicans favoring the measure. The House is expected to pass a similar bill soon. Back in October, the […]

Google Chrome’s developers say that they no longer trust Symantec to issue HTTPS certificates, and the browser will stop recognizing certs issued by the security vendor. The problem began back in 2015, when Google discovered that Symantec had issued an Extended Validation (EV) Certificate for Google.com, even though Google hadn’t requested one. That sparked a […]

Google has released Angular 4, the latest update for the popular JavaScript framework. The new version should help developers write smaller, faster applications. “We’ve made changes under to hood to what AOT-generated (ahead of time) code looks like,” explained Stephen Fluin, a Google developer advocate for Angular. “These changes should reduce the size of the […]

A hacker group that calls itself the “Turkish Crime Family” claims to have hacked into Apple’s systems and to have gained usernames and passwords for 559 million Apple email and iCloud accounts. They are threatening to remote wipe all data from iPhones associated with the accounts unless Apple pays $75,000 in Bitcoin or $100,000 in […]

The Next Web has a very interesting analysis of Facebook’s demographic numbers that could represent some significant trends in attitudes towards privacy and information sharing. Specifically, a lot of users seem to be lying about their ages. An unusually high number of Facebook users claim to be 18-year-old men. In fact, there are 110 percent […]

Over the past few years, WordPress has become tremendously popular, powering over 26% of the world wide web. Whether as an effective tool for website creation or as a CMS or even as a powerful blogging medium, WordPress has a widespread use in everything. Irrespective of the fact that whether you are all new to […]

Job recruiter and staffing firm Randstad Technologies said that demand for key mobile development and Web development skills climbed 104 percent between 2014 and 2016. Specifically, it sees high demand for iOS, Android, HTML5, Angular, Java and JavaScript development capabilities. “As consumers increasingly rely on smartphones and tablets for information and tasks, businesses of all […]

Google has revealed that its search engine flagged 32 percent more websites as being hacked in 2016 compared to 2015. However, more than 60 percent of those websites’ owners had not registered with Google Search Console, a service that informs Web developers how their sites are performing on Google Search and allows Google to communicate […]

The CTIA, a lobbyist group representing mobile Internet service providers (ISPs) like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, and Sprint, has filed a new document opposing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule changes. New rules, scheduled to take effect on or after December 4, 2017, will require ISPs to get opt-in permission before sharing user data, including […]

Google has released a new open source JPEG encoder called Guetzli that it claims can compress image files 35 percent smaller than other tools. Importantly, Google says the tool doesn’t compromise image quality because it “approximates color perception and visual masking in a more thorough and detailed way than what is achievable by simpler color […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two Russian spies, another Russian hacker and one Canadian hacker in the 2014 breach of Yahoo’s networks. “The indictment unequivocally shows the attacks on Yahoo were state-sponsored,” said Chris Madsen, assistant general counsel and head of Global Law Enforcement, Security & Safety at Yahoo. “We appreciate the […]

If you maintain a website that uses Adobe Flash or Shockwave, it’s time to remind visitors to update their players. Adobe has released an update that fixes seven bugs in Flash Player and one in Shockwave Player. Six of the Flash security vulnerabilities are considered critical, including one buffer overflow bug and two memory corruption […]