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Oracle is Killing Off Java
Outdated browser plugin Java is finally being pulled, Oracle has announced. Java will be slowly phased out, beginning with a deprecation of the plugin starting with JDK 9. The advent of HTML5 means that buggy and insecure browser plugins, such as Flash and Java, are no longer required, with Google…
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Futuremark Releases Major Update for PCMark 8
Futuremark released a new major update to the popular benchmarking application PCMark 8 that accommodates the latest changes in Adobe After Effects and provides better support for NVMe SSDs. This is a major update that will affect scores, which also means that results from this version shouldn’t be compared to…
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Which Companies Had The Most Security Vulnerabilities In 2015?
Cyber security is a hot topic and the rise of attacks which looks to exploit security flaws within a company’s software is becoming increasingly commonplace within the tech world. CVE Details have thus released its rundown of the most security vulnerabilities in a variety of software products for 2015 and…
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How Bad Are Adobe Flash Bug Repair Stats?
It’s safe to say Adobe flash did not have the best of years, from crashes, hacks, crashes, vulnerabilities and, yes more crashes, many in the industry doubt whether this will be the year Adobe finally pulls the plug. It seems the ill-fated Flash player is constantly being fixed, but, how…
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Adobe Renames Flash and Shifts Emphasis to HTML5
Adobe has unveiled its new 2016 Creative Cloud package, bringing with it the end of Flash, but in name only. From now on, Flash – now notorious for its regular security holes and exploits – will be known as Adobe Animate CC, with Adobe making a noticeable shift toward HTLM5.…
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Fully Patched Adobe Flash Hit by New Zero-Day Update
Just as day follows night, and just as UbiSoft thinks up new and amazing game elements to strip away and charge microtransactions for, another zero-day exploit has been discovered for Adobe Flash. But this isn’t any old zero-day exploit, it’s an exploit found in the fully patched version of Flash.…
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The BBC Implements HTML5 to iPlayer
I think we can all say that Adobe Flash Player is very much being knocked to its knees in recent months, from endless, and I do mean endless, vulnerabilities which put countless users at risk to the annoying aspect of running a plug-in which enjoys crashing and breaking functionality on…
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Amazon Bans Flash Adverts on Its Own Domains
Amazon has updated the terms of its Technical Guidelines to prohibit any advert on Amazon-branded sites using Adobe’s Flash protocol. The change will commence on the 1st September and Amazon explained their reasoning in an introductory post: “Beginning September 1, 2015, Amazon no longer accepts Flash ads on Amazon.com, AAP, and various…
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Google Changes how Flash Ads Work in Chrome
Despite helping pay for web content, auto-playing Flash ads have become the bane of internet users. While third party plugins have long offered the ability to control Flash elements, Google is now baking in the ability to pause auto-playing Flash ads right into Chrome. Starting with the latest Chrome Beta…
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Firefox Users Can Now Stream Netflix Without a Plugin
Firefox users will no longer be required to download the Microsoft Silverlight plugin if they are wanting to watch Netflix through their browsers. The newest version of Firefox integrates Adobe Content Decryption Module (CDM), which is needed to stream from Netflix on HTML 5. For a long time now Mozilla…
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Adobe Revealed Some of its Features Coming in the Next Premiere Pro Update
Adobe has announced a few of its upcoming product updates ahead of NAB video conference, which include an animation tool, a new mobile app and some updates to Premiere Pro. There seems to be a new colour correction panel in Premiere, called Lumetri Color, that looks and works exactly like…
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Google to Automatically Convert Flash Ads in HTML5
Flash is dead. Long live HTML5. Adobe’s Flash player is notoriously buggy and vulnerable to malware attacks, a fact that is slowly scaring off websites, developers, and users in equal measure. YouTube has already ditched the software in favour of the new standard language HTML5, and now Google will be…
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Adobe Celebrates 25 Years of Photoshop With Spectacular Ad
It’s been 25 years since a little Mac application was first released that allowed you to edit photos. Yes, 25 years since Adobe Photoshop was born as a slightly more advanced version of your standard Paint application. However, across that 25 years, the word Photoshop has become a synonym for…
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Apple Forcing Users to Upgrade Flash
In Apple’s latest hit against Adobe Flash, the most recent update to OS X is now forcing users to upgrade to new versions of Flash by blocking any web content that uses it. Now when a user of OS X Yosemite with an out of date Flash plugin tries to run…
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Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability Found In Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is quickly becoming a liability. Another zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-0313) has been found in Adobe Flash Player, the third such problem this year. This time, Adobe itself has drawn attention to the issue, warning that the CVE-2015-0313 security flaw can be taken advantage of using the Angler Exploit kit,…
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