Chromium-based software promises ad- and track-blocking
Security developers have released a stripped-down privacy-friendly browser, Aviator, based on the open source browser core Chromium as used by Google Chrome.…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Programmers! Have you been asked to solve a computationally intractable task?
And do you ever solve algorithmic problems?
Readers’ corner And so to El Reg forums, where Julian Bradfield, an academic, writes:…
Just HALF of 10m iPhone, Android BlackBerry BBM app downloads activated
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Ten million people have apparently downloaded the new BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) app for Android or iOS in just 24 hours. But with activations being metered out in half-million lumps it will be a while before they can all start chatting.…
LG opts for a Brazilian, lobs out low-powered Firefox OS mobe Fireweb
First gadget to launch with version 1.1 of Moz’s phone code
South Korean electronics giant LG has joined the likes of Alcatel, Geeksphone, and ZTE by offering a handset based on the Mozilla Foundation’s open-source Firefox OS platform.…
Mozilla CTO blasts WC3 plans to bless anti-piracy DRM tech in HTML5
Brendan Eich warns of ‘The Bridge of Khazad-DRM’
The co-founder and CTO of Mozilla Brendan Eich has issued a strongly worded statement decrying moves by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to allow digital rights management plugins to be included in the specifications for HTML5 and future code iterations.…
The Reg undergoes a Twitter makeover: Come join the squawk
A blue bird walked into a bar …
The Register has a new official home on Twitter: @theregister.…
Programmers! How to spot a coder’s comment
Let’s develop this thread
Readers’ corner In our latest raid on El Reg Forums, we turn to ‘Parax’ (a developer, we guess), who writes:…
Finally! How to make Android USABLE: Install BlackBerry OS 10.2
New upgrade smooths rough edges with 300+ features and tweaks
The biggest update to BlackBerry OS 10 so far – version 10.2 – includes more than 300 changes, from new features to fixes for many niggles.…
Open-source hardware hacking effort ‘smacked down’ by USB overlords
Cough up $$$$s like the big boys for your ID codes
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the organisation that oversees the USB standard, has apparently sent the director of a small British electronics firm away with a flea in his ear for daring to suggest how it could make the lives of open-source hardware developers easier and cheaper.…
Naughty Flash Player BURIED ALIVE in OS X Mavericks Safari sandbox
Cupertino following the lead of Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla
The Adobe Flash Player plugin runs in a locked-down sandbox under Safari on OS X 10.9 “Mavericks,” making Apple the latest major web browser vendor to provide additional security when viewing Flash content on the web.…