Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI
“These changes are not driven by a desire by Mozilla to use people's data for AI or sell it to advertisers,” Mozilla spokesperson Kenya Friend-Daniel said in an email to TechCrunch. techcrunch.com/20...
Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy
'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode...
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
but they may eventually return in a new form Ashwin / Ghacks : Google confirms that cache links have been removed from search results Mastodon: Misty / @misty@digipres.club : Google's getting rid of t...
The official PHP Git repository was hacked, adding a backdoor RCE to the PHP source code; PHP maintainer says the changes were reverted within a few hours
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository … Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Hackers put a back door in a code library that powers 79% of websites Tweets: Sam Kottler / @samkottler : ...
As Slack gets criticism from power users for its WYSIWYG editor and plans an option to revert, a look at the history of Markdown, used by Slack's old interface
Ernie Smith / VICE : Tweets: @alexislloyd , @vice , @artemr , @shortformernie , @katienotopoulos , @carnage4life , and @wongmjane Tweets: Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd : It's been fascinating to hear e...
Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral
new Smart Summon feature Fred Lambert / Electrek : Tesla owners are already doing dumb things with ‘Smart Summon’ Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : Summoning spells are not for the faint of hea...
Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla has issued a fix for most issues, advises others not to try any workarounds
A small number of add-ons may be listed … Victoria Song / Gizmodo : Firefox Fixes Borked Extensions for Everyone but Legacy Users Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Mozilla releases Firefox 66.0.4 with fix dis...