There's a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested out there right now, which does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to to populate a nice little white dropdown. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
""which then tricks the interface into thinking you have an Eric Schmidt level of access" - Youmean to say you don't have this access level? :-)" More »
Mozilla is enlisting Samsung to help bring its new web rendering tech to market, with the smartphone giant helping to push its "advanced technology Web browser engine" Servo, built on Mozilla's own Rust coding language. Mozilla and Samsung will bring the new browser engine to ARM powered mobile devices running Android, perhaps heralding the beginning of Samsung's attempt to de-Google Android a little. [Mozilla via The Register] Read More >>
An online security firm has sounded the alarm about mobile internet porn, claiming you're three times as likely to pick up a mobile malware STD on your phone when browsing adult sites as you are when looking at normal, safe for work web pages. Read More >>
This is Silk, an soothing web-based graphical toy that allows you to draw using swirly patterns in a two- and four-way symmetrical configurations, as well as totally freeform. Go play with it. It's cool and you're welcome. [Silk] Read More >>
You'd have thought that the supermarkets, what with their club card and electronic tracking of your every move, might be the biggest stalkers, but no. Apparently Microsoft's the worst offender of them all, closely followed by Apple, and, err, Dell. Read More >>
Featured comment by Alfred Heflander:
"'Some of these are, of course, analytics trackers, but the vast majority are geared up to serve you behavioural ads.'
So, not much different to MS ..." More »
One big provider of internet porn took the imminent arrival of Internet Explorer on Microsoft's Xbox 360 to issue a press release, claiming the console was about to become every child's favourite way of getting their favourite niche of porn beamed into their living rooms. Read More >>
Featured comment by JoeyG410:
"Yea true, I use the PS3 for media and Xbox for more games as more or my friends have Xbox's. But personally I wish they had PS3's as I find the whole ..." More »
Just days after Oracle took the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled patch to fix the huge security flaw found in the most recent update of its Java platform, more ways to exploit the code have been found within the widely used tool. Read More >>
The recently discovered potentially apocalyptic Java exploit has been spreading, with the hack now part of a commonplace malware bundle that's doing the rounds on the hacking scene. Read More >>
Featured comment by mannu4u4u:
"An update has been released by Oracle Tomorrow
http://www.hackersnewsbulletin.com/2012/08/oracle-has-released-patch-for-its-java.html" More »
A rather huge exploit has been used to attack users of Java, which has been found to operate within browsers on PCs, OS X and even the more robust Ubuntu. Everything that runs Java is now vulnerable. Read More >>
Bing's homepage is wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated timelapse of concentric startrails at Mountain Valley in Utah (for us Brits to see it you'll need to dive on over to the settings and change the country to United States). It's gorgeous. But more importantly, it's the kind of tasteful-but-futuristic design we want to see more of. Read More >>
Featured comment by dirtymagic86:
"You really think that if Terrorists want to take out the internet, they will be using a How To from Gizmodo?" More »
Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper that can block neighbours from freeloading off your Wi-Fi network. The silver crystals are arranged in such a way that they are able to block certain wireless frequencies including those of a Wi-FI router. Read More >>
Featured comment by Tafkawac:
"Yes, it does. When my house was renovated, the walls are of the old waffle and daub type. (Or mud and sticks as I like to call it). So that the walls ..." More »
This is Marc Andreessen. He's not as rich as Bill Gates, not as inspirational as Steve Jobs, nor as well-known as Mark Zuckerberg — but that doesn't make him any less important. Because, in his twenty-year career, Andreessen has probably done more than any other person to change the way we communicate online. Read More >>
The government and the London 2012 organisers have put together a guide designed to help businesses get ready for the Olympics, warning we may see slower web connections and the odd complete failure due to increased demand. Read More >>
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