The man behind the Opera browser has created a new one, he says, because power users are poorly served. The new Vivaldi browser launched today in a “Technical Preview” form, with customisation and speed taking it in a different direction to the mainstream, where minimalism rules the day.…
Security researchers have uncovered a critical bug in the GNU C Library (glibc), a key component of Linux and some other operating systems, which could render countless machines vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.…
With Superbowl Sunday approaching, interest in the ritualized combat that is American football is peaking for the year – but fans of the action may be letting hackers slurp their personal details.…
Two years after its last browser strategy policy change in Windows 8, Microsoft is shifting the pieces around the board again.…
Stob Some weeks ago, on the back of superlative-laced recommendatory posts like this one, I took myself off to the Fosse des Puces high art cinema to see The Imitation Game, the new biopic about Alan “Weird Al” Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch.…
The US National Sheriffs’ Association wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer’s lives at risk.…
With all the hoopla coming out of Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in Redmond on Wednesday, there was surprisingly little talk of Windows RT, the feature-limited version of Windows 8.x for ARM-based tablets – and perhaps with good reason.…
Kim Dotcom has set off on his new service to challenge Skype and other video platforms.…
Microsoft let slip a few more details of its plans for the company’s Office productivity suite on Thursday, including hints about when we can expect the next major version of its desktop suite to land.…
Security bod Stefan Viehböck has detailed holes in Symantec’s data centre security platforms that the company plugged this week because they allowed hackers to gain privilege access to management servers.…