We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother
You lot sort it out
31 Jul 2020
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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
22 Jul 2020
Microsoft Web Live Preview: Hot reload for ASP.NET web applications
New time-saving extension works only with old .NET Framework, for now
16 Jun 2020
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
04 Jun 2020
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
03 Jun 2020
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
02 Jun 2020
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'
29 May 2020
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
28 May 2020
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
21 May 2020
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
20 May 2020
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
14 May 2020
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
07 May 2020
Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers
From URL to UR-Hell
30 Apr 2020
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...
24 Apr 2020
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
22 Apr 2020
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
17 Apr 2020
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
15 Apr 2020
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
14 Apr 2020
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