ESET spits patch in three days
Google Project Zero bod Tavis Ormandy has disclosed a “trivial” means of remotely hack the ESET NOD32 antivirus platform.…
Hi-res audio folk to introduce new rules and weed out impure noises
Inaudible or ineffable? Industry bods address ‘misperceptions’
High resolution (Hi-Res) audio is not as good it should be, causing an industry group to create new production guidelines to address what it says are “misperceptions” concerning what it takes to create the best recordings.…
Yahoo! displaces Ask in Oracle’s Java update crapware parade
Desperate tactics from the Purple Palace
At the annual Yahoo! shareholder’s meeting, CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled her new strategy for making the struggling web portal popular again by buying its way into Oracle’s Java upgrade software.…
Apple pulls Civil War games in Confederate flag takedown
App Store nixes banner amidst controversy over symbolism
Apple is removing games that feature the Confederate flag in their titles or gameplay from its App Store.…
That shot you heard? SSLv3 is now DEAD
It’s joined the choir invisible
We really, really, really mean it this time: take SSL3 and bury it.…
Apple wants to patent iBeacon stalking
‘Find a friend’, what could possibly go wrong?
The fruit of Apple’s 2013 acquisition of indoor mapper WiFiSlam seems to have fallen from the tree and landed at the patent office, with Cupertino filing for a find-my-friends feature.…
Google creates cloud code cache
Chocolate Factory wants to be your GitHub, eventually
With an uncharacteristic lack of fanfare, Google has decided to hang around the kitchen at the code repository party.…
Google IS listening: Binary blob banished from Chromium build
Simply no place for closed-source components, sorry
New Chromium builds will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module and will automatically remove the module on startup if it was previously installed.…
Microsoft’s curious Sway comes to iPad and iPhone
Windows 10 app to follow soon
Microsoft has released Sway for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, and will follow up with an app for Windows 10 “later this summer”.…
Samsung vows to stop knackering Windows Update on your laptops
‘We’ll do that with an update for our software updater,’ says Sammy
Samsung has promised to release a patch for its computers so that they no longer kill off automatic Windows updates from Microsoft.…