May 03, 2022

Firefox hits 100*, fixes bugs… but no new zero-days this month

Despite concerns that some websites might break when Chromium and then Firefox reached version 100, the web still seems to be intact.

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March 03, 2022

S3 Ep72: AirTag stalking, web server coding woes and Instascams [Podcast + Transcript]

Latest episode - listen now (or read it, if that's your preference)...

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November 06, 2019

Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS

Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry's lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.

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May 10, 2019

Chrome browser pushes SameSite cookie security overhaul

Slowly but steadily, developers are being given the tools with which to tame the promiscuous and often insecure world of the browser cookie.

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February 12, 2019

Brave browser explains Facebook whitelist to concerned users

Brave is playing down fears after the revelation of what looked like a whitelist in its code allowing it to communicate with Facebook.

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December 10, 2018

Microsoft’s gutting Edge and stuffing it with Chromium

Edge joins Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, and Brave. Better for web compatibility, but if one thing breaks, they all break.

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February 28, 2018

Making private browsing more private

Introducing Veil, an MIT and Harvard research project.

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January 24, 2017

News in brief: DuckDuckGo takes off; Sundance hit by cyberattack; Oz moots biometric arrivals

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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August 06, 2015

How your battery life could be used as an undeletable cookie

Researchers have discovered that unscrupulous websites could use your laptop's battery as a short-lived super cookie.

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