Firefox for Android versions prior to 24 suffer from a same-origin bypass vulnerability via symbolic links…….

As in previous computing eras, the giants like Apple and Google, will try to keep their winning streaks going, while the upstarts hope to disrupt the incumbents…….

First time accepted submitter Hallie Siegel writes “A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of conducting visual inspections of ship ballasts. Ballast inspection – which involves navigating hard-to-reach spots with no line of sight, often in the presence of intense…

In the quest for the living room, Valve begins testing a new video game system with a unique controller. Also, Facebook tweaks advertisements, and AOL launches discounted bundles of digital goods with Gathr…….

When we’re done studying an abducted asteroid, one way to get rid of it could be to have it lose at a game of chicken with our largest satellite…….

sciencehabit writes “Quantum computers can solve problems far too complex for normal computers, at least in theory. That’s why research teams around the globe have strived to build them for decades. But this extraordinary power raises a troubling question: How will we know whether a quantum computer’s results are true if there is no way…

Did the lost common language Proto-Indo-European sound like this? Listen to a linguist’s reconstructed fables about sheep, horses, and a king…….

‘Siri, hand over my contacts and history now…’……

Ex-Microsoft privacy chief: I don’t trust company after NSA revelations Caspar Bowden says he was unaware of Prism data-sharing program when he worked at software firm Beta Share 4 inShare3 Email Charles Arthur in Lausanne theguardian.com, Monday 30 September 2013 15.23 EDT Jump to comments (1) Caspar Bowden tells conference that he now only uses…

Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1374-02 – JBoss Remoting is a framework for building distributed applications in Java. A denial of service flaw was found in the implementation of the org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread class in JBoss Remoting. An attacker could use this flaw to exhaust all available file descriptors on the target server, preventing legitimate connections. Note that…