Monthly Archives: October 2014

Mozilla: Spidermonkey ATE Apple’s JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8

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Moz man claims the win on rivals’ own benchmarks

Mozilla Distinguished Engineer Robert O’Callahan reports that the Spidermonkey JavaScript engine, used by the Firefox web browser, has surpassed the performance of Google’s V8 engine (used by Chrome) and Apple’s JavaScript Core (used by Safari) on three popular benchmarks: Mozilla’s own Kraken, Webkit’s SunSpider and Google’s Octane.…

Microsoft unwraps new auto data-protection in Office 365 tools

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‘Heyy, it looks like you’re writing down stuff that’s best not written down!’ ‘F*ck off, Clippy’

Microsoft is expanding its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools. DLP is a way of tagging content to mark it as sensitive data and subject to policy, such as a rule that states “data must be encrypted” or “may not be shared outside the organisation”.…

Yes, Virginia, there IS a W3C HTML5 standard – as of now, that is

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You asked for it! You begged for it! Then you gave up! And now it’s HERE!

After nearly 10 years of development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has promoted the HTML5 specification to Recommendation status, its highest level of maturation, effectively making the markup language a formal web standard.…

Top research shop releases free boffinware for all

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Your research may be bleeding edge, but the way you do it probably isn’t

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which lists the formative work behind WiFi among its successes, wants to boost researcher productivity, and has published a free-for-boffins scientific tool called “Workspace” to help.…

Google may hook Kubernetes deep into own cloud

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‘Highly differentiated experience’ promised, details likely at November gabfest

Google’s Cloud Platform Live event in the USA next week may offer up some news on how The Chocolate Factory will allow developers to put Kubernetes to work in its own cloud.…