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In a world where up is down, it's heartwarming to know Internet Explorer still tops list of web dev pain points

Incompatibilities and inconsistent standards support among browsers ensure an ongoing source of headaches

Software24 Sep 2020 | 22

Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps

Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems

Science10 Sep 2020 | 36

Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree

We'll just let muted videos autoplay on Chrome for Android because publishers can't be stopped

Software08 Sep 2020 | 32

Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it

Disabled by default at the end of 2020, but it will linger on like a bad smell

Software04 Sep 2020 | 29

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

Draft spec reduces pages to inscrutable data blobs, says privacy bod

Software27 Aug 2020 | 95

Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can go wrong

Web security? We've got that totally under control

Software22 Aug 2020 | 161

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Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

UK govt portal among those borked

Software06 Aug 2020 | 30

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard

Personal Tech04 Aug 2020 | 37

We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother

Updated You lot sort it out

Software31 Jul 2020 | 33

The W3C steers the way the World Wide Web works. Yet it is reluctant to record crucial meetings – and its minutes are incomplete

Ability to debate frankly in private versus right of netizens to know what exactly is discussed

Software22 Jul 2020 | 17

Microsoft Web Live Preview: Hot reload for ASP.NET web applications

New time-saving extension works only with old .NET Framework, for now

Software16 Jun 2020 | 2

No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically

Something something pushing us over the Edge

Software04 Jun 2020 | 64

Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

Latest Tor Browser iteration makes the dark web a bit more memorable

Security03 Jun 2020 | 11

Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues

Web sites and services tied to older versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS have been dropping like flies

Security02 Jun 2020 | 20

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data'

Security29 May 2020 | 90

FYI: There are thousands of Chrome extensions with so, so many fake installations to trick you into using them

Unethical developers drum up bogus user counts to gain trust

Software28 May 2020 | 14

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

A simpler alternative to site slurping

Devops21 May 2020 | 5

Google rolls out pro-privacy DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83... with a handy kill switch for corporate IT

Plus: Web giant hears developers' extension concerns, ignores them

Software20 May 2020 | 51

Better late than never... Google Chrome to kill off 'tiny' number of mobile web ads that gobble battery, CPU power

Could have done with this years ago to stave off rise of advert blockers but fine, OK, whatever, now it's coming

Personal Tech14 May 2020 | 34

FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

High-frequency audio could be used to stealthily track netizens

Security07 May 2020 | 53

Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers

From URL to UR-Hell

Security30 Apr 2020 | 8

Forget tabs – the new war is commas versus spaces: Web heads urged by browser devs to embrace modern CSS

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma coloring ban. You come and go, you come and go...

Software24 Apr 2020 | 164

Stripe is absolutely logging your mouse movements on websites' payment pages – for your own good, says CEO

Online transaction biz intends to clarify its analytics harvesting habit

Security22 Apr 2020 | 26

Google calls a halt on Chrome 82, but the version 83 beta has arrived early – so it's coding and bug finding time ahead

Plus some interesting new side-channel attack possibilities for crims to play with

Software17 Apr 2020 | 8

As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions

Times are hard...for you at least

Personal Tech15 Apr 2020 | 22

You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'

Data center snafu borks site because of...something

Software14 Apr 2020 | 30

Google changes course, proposes proprietary in-app purchase API as web standard

Developers rejoice, there may be (eventually) a store-agnostic way to sell in-application items

Software02 Apr 2020 | 7

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Sure, we'll delete local data after seven days but there's a way to avoid that

Software26 Mar 2020 | 10

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Software20 Mar 2020 | 30

Google: You know we said that Chrome tracker contained no personally identifiable info? Yeah, about that...

Updated Chocolate Factory clarifies its header for monitoring browser field trials following The Register report

Security11 Mar 2020 | 78

World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts

Inrupt promises a pro-privacy solution to managing, protecting personal data

Networks24 Feb 2020 | 44

Google burns down more than 500 private-data-stealing, ad-defrauding Chrome extensions installed by 1.7m netizens

Malvertising campaign makes big bucks for online criminals

Security14 Feb 2020 | 27

Google's second stab at preserving both privacy and ad revenue draws fire

With PIGIN skewered, take a look at this lovely TURTLEDOVE

Personal Tech10 Feb 2020 | 31

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

'I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't fetch that document'

Security07 Feb 2020 | 129

Brave, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla gather together to talk web privacy... and why we all shouldn't get too much of it

Enigma Browser makers keep coming back to the need to please advertisers

Software29 Jan 2020 | 105

Microsoft's on Edge and you could be, too: Chromium-based browser exits beta – with teething problems

Redmond loves Linux so much this Internet-Explorer-replacement is for Windows, macOS only right now

Software15 Jan 2020 | 51

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

Q&A biz admits mistakes, promises more discreet public communication

Software02 Jan 2020 | 85

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Gap in browser privacy tech embarrassingly detected by Google

Security12 Dec 2019 | 10

WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online

Standardization of wasm for the web offers a new take on the same old problems

Devops06 Dec 2019 | 75

If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive software development, check out this Google-backed API

Comment App detection interface sparks privacy worries

Software06 Dec 2019 | 48

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web

Security21 Nov 2019 | 185

Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem

Chrome Dev Summit also brings resolution of tabs vs. spaces fight, for now

Software12 Nov 2019 | 76

GraphQL a cut above the REST, say query lang's fans: Airbnb, Knotel, others embrace the tech

Data-fetching scheme seems to be catching on

Software31 Oct 2019 | 9

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

Crawler bots to snub animated content starting this year

Personal Tech29 Oct 2019 | 55

Google's Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies

Developers! Developers! Developers! Oh, wait, that's a different company

Software25 Oct 2019 | 10

Google slings websites into Chrome's solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping

Ignore the overhead, enjoy Site Isolation – a defense against side-channel attacks

Security18 Oct 2019 | 8

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall

Software11 Oct 2019 | 50

Google takes sole stand on privacy, rejects new rules for fear of 'authoritarian' review

Lone 'no' vote nixes renewal of W3C's Privacy Interest Group

Security25 Sep 2019 | 17

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Extensions still free to use uber-powerful webRequest API to filter crap out of webpages

Software03 Sep 2019 | 41

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Bypass our tracking controls at your unspecified peril, warns maker of minor browser

Software16 Aug 2019 | 43

Anatomy of an attack: How Coinbase was targeted with emails booby-trapped with Firefox zero-days

Elaborate browser break-out betrayed by unusual behavior

Security09 Aug 2019 | 32

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs

Analysis Instead of enriching Google, try making a market for click work

Science18 Jul 2019 | 23

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

Forget about past technical decisions made by fiat, this time your thoughts matter

Software02 Jul 2019 | 19

Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

Analysis We want to make Chrome safer... by taking away the API we used to race Firefox

Software13 Jun 2019 | 77

This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Browser will remain gratis, optional $$-per-month services to be offered later this year

Software11 Jun 2019 | 129

Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google

Ad giant's site slurping tech complicates web security model, could give more power to search engines and social networks, Firefox maker warns

Security30 May 2019 | 58

Cloudflare gives websites their marching orders to hasten page rendering automatically

Adjustments to HTTP/2 Prioritization allow faster delivery of web resources

Networks15 May 2019 | 22

You're not still writing Android apps in Oracle's Java, are you? Google tut-tuts at dev conf

Google I/O Ad giant pushes Kotlin language, Q beta 3, Flutter, ChromeOS, and more

Software09 May 2019 | 67

Google puts Chrome on a cookie diet (which just so happens to starve its rivals, cough, cough...)

Google I/O But it's for privacy! You know us. We're Google, privacy champions. Always championing privacy, us

Software08 May 2019 | 60

Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

It's not hard, we just need some coding tweaks to make sure Privacy Badger stays sane

Software19 Apr 2019 | 31

Google hits brand slam stamping AMP with more crypto glam

All your URLs are belong to us

Security18 Apr 2019 | 10

Just a little FYI: Filtering doodad in Adblock Plus opens door to third-party malware injection

Third-party providers of content filter rules could stiff netizens

Security15 Apr 2019 | 11

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In a world where up is down, it's heartwarming to know Internet Explorer still tops list of web dev pain points

Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps

Google Chrome calculates your autoplay settings so you don't have to - others disagree

Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it

Brave takes brave stand against Google's plan to turn websites into ad-blocker-thwarting Web Bundles

Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly via TCP, UDP. Obviously, nothing can go wrong

BROADER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother

The W3C steers the way the World Wide Web works. Yet it is reluctant to record crucial meetings – and its minutes are incomplete

Microsoft Web Live Preview: Hot reload for ASP.NET web applications

No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically

Tor soups up onion sites with bountiful browser bump: No more tears trying to find the secure sites you want

Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues

Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

FYI: There are thousands of Chrome extensions with so, so many fake installations to trick you into using them

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Google rolls out pro-privacy DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83... with a handy kill switch for corporate IT

Better late than never... Google Chrome to kill off 'tiny' number of mobile web ads that gobble battery, CPU power

FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can't hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers

Forget tabs – the new war is commas versus spaces: Web heads urged by browser devs to embrace modern CSS

Stripe is absolutely logging your mouse movements on websites' payment pages – for your own good, says CEO

Google calls a halt on Chrome 82, but the version 83 beta has arrived early – so it's coding and bug finding time ahead

As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions

You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'

Google changes course, proposes proprietary in-app purchase API as web standard

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Google: You know we said that Chrome tracker contained no personally identifiable info? Yeah, about that...

World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts

Google burns down more than 500 private-data-stealing, ad-defrauding Chrome extensions installed by 1.7m netizens

Google's second stab at preserving both privacy and ad revenue draws fire

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

Brave, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla gather together to talk web privacy... and why we all shouldn't get too much of it

Microsoft's on Edge and you could be, too: Chromium-based browser exits beta – with teething problems

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with 2020 vision on codes of conduct

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

WebAssembly gets nod from W3C and, most likely, an embrace from cryptojackers online

If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive software development, check out this Google-backed API

Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem

GraphQL a cut above the REST, say query lang's fans: Airbnb, Knotel, others embrace the tech

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

Google's Chrome Web Store under fire for shoddy service and cryptic policies

Google slings websites into Chrome's solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

Google takes sole stand on privacy, rejects new rules for fear of 'authoritarian' review

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Anatomy of an attack: How Coinbase was targeted with emails booby-trapped with Firefox zero-days

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs

Google open sources standardized code in bid to become Mr Robots.txt

Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras

Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google

Cloudflare gives websites their marching orders to hasten page rendering automatically

You're not still writing Android apps in Oracle's Java, are you? Google tut-tuts at dev conf

Google puts Chrome on a cookie diet (which just so happens to starve its rivals, cough, cough...)

Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

Google hits brand slam stamping AMP with more crypto glam

Just a little FYI: Filtering doodad in Adblock Plus opens door to third-party malware injection

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