At the WWDC 2020 keynote today, Apple announced that the company is going to switch from Intel chips to Apple’s own silicon, based on ARM architecture. They also announced that iPad and iPhone apps will be able to run natively on ARM-powered Macs. TechCrunch reports: First, you’ll be able to compile your app to run both on Intel-based Macs and ARM-based…
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Google Chrome 85 To Allow Users To Compose Tweets From Windows 10 Taskbar
In the “quick launch bar” of Windows 10, native app icons “support a shortcut menu for commonly or frequently performed tasks in the app. This menu can be invoked by right-clicking the app’s quick launch bar icon,” writes the Windows Club site — adding that Mac users can use similar functionality when opening a web browser from the MacOS dock. But…
Google Search a Target of US Antitrust Probes, Rival Says
U.S. federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google’s power in the online search market as part of their antitrust investigations into the tech giant, according to rival DuckDuckGo. From a report: Gabriel Weinberg, chief executive officer of the privacy-focused search engine, said he has spoken with state regulators, and talked with the U.S. Justice Department…
Firefox 78 To Prevent Websites From Forcing Users To Save PDF Documents
“Firefox will prevent websites from forcing users to directly save PDFs without opening them in the web browser window,” reports The Windows Club. “Mozilla is rolling out this feature to the masses with the stable release of Firefox 78.”
Right now, Mozilla has added this feature to Firefox 78 in the Nightly channel. The issue was first raised in 2011, and it…
Addressing ‘Design Mistakes’ in Node.js, Its Developers Release JS/TypeScript Runtime Deno 1.0
“The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses ‘design mistakes’ in Node.js,” reports ZDNet:
Just like Node.js or Node, the Deno runtime is for executing JavaScript outside a web browser. However, unlike Node.js, Deno offers first-class support for Microsoft’s increasingly popular Typescript, a superset of JavaScript designed…
Number-Plate Cam Site Had No Password, Spills 8.6 Million Logs of UK Road Journeys
The Register reports that Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people. From the report: The ANPR camera system’s internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to…
Microsoft Is Bombarding Chrome-Using Outlook.com Visitors With Ads For Edge
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BetaNews: Microsoft is no stranger to hitting its customers with ads for its products and services, and it seems that the company is so keen that people make the switch to the new Chromium-based version of Edge that it is now bombarding Outlook.com users with banner ads. The ads are targeting people who visit…
Apple Music On the Web Exits Beta
The web-based Apple Music experience that launched in beta last September is now available at music.apple.com. MacRumors reports: The previous beta.music.apple.com address automatically forwards to the newly launched version. Once you’re signed into the web version of Apple Music with your Apple ID that has an associated Apple Music subscription, you’ll have access to all of your library and playlist content,…
Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore
BuzzFeed News has learned that Google has banned the popular videoconferencing software Zoom from its employees’ devices. From the report: Zoom, a competitor to Google’s own Meet app, has seen an explosion of people using it to work and socialize from home and has become a cultural touchstone during the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, Google sent an email to employees whose…
Longtime Mozilla Leader Mitchell Baker is Now CEO
On Wednesday, Mozilla chair and longtime leader Mitchell Baker was named permanent CEO of the company that makes the Firefox web browser. From a report: Mitchell became interim CEO of Mozilla in December 2019, after former CEO Chris Beard resigned. The company conducted an external candidate search over the last eight months, and concluded the Mitchell is the right leader for…