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Nintendo Also Seeks to Shutdown Browser-Based Emulators
Nintendo Wages War Against Piracy Not content with sending a message to ROM sites with legal action, Nintendo is also moving to shut down browser-based emulators. In a separate effort, the company also removed a repository from GitHub offering access to Game Boy Advance games. Nintendo is also considering legal…
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Latest Ransomware Now Hidden Within Javascript
When it comes to viruses Ransomware is particularly nasty. With thousands of users being affected by the latest in cyber crime, it often costs people hundreds to gain access to their family photos and legal documents all thanks to the newest of malware. It would now seem that ransomware creators are…
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JavaScript Projects Were Broken After Left-Pad Was Unpublished
Tuesday afternoon and you start running your brand new JavaScript for the website you’re working on. You’ve been working on it for days and have been enjoying it working only to find it breaks. The reason your project, among hundreds of JavaScript Projects, was broken for hours because someone unpublished…
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MIT’s Polaris Hopes To Speed Up Your Browsing Online
Sadly the experience on some websites these days can very quickly be summed up by the word “loading”. We like our pictures, our videos and some even like ads, the problem being is that everything you view on the internet has to come from somewhere and that is where the…
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Ransomware Just Got Worse By The Use of JavaScript
Ransomware is probably one of the peskiest and most annoying things that your computer can catch. Not only do you lose access to your files, you have to pay a criminal to release them again. Even if you should choose to pay, there is no guarantee what-so-ever that the criminal…
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Chinese Devices Mount Massive DDoS Web Attack
Cyber attacks are an increasing and dangerous threat which is perpetrated by groups and countries alike, these attacks are a substantial threat to free speech, livelihoods of website operators and also the whole infrastructure of the Internet. It’s no surprise to learn that a huge DDoS attack against a target…
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Microsoft Releases Slimline Windows 10 for the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft has unveiled a developer-focused, Windows 10 edition designed for the Rapsberry Pi. Windows 10 IoT Core is targeted towards small form-factor devices and doesn’t utilize the default Windows shell. This means you create your own Universal Windows App and construct a visual frontend. To access these creation tools, you need a…
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Hackers Find Serious 0day Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla got word this Wednesday that a severe Firefox 0day vulnerability was being exploited by an ad on a Russian website. Although the company was swift in delivering a fix, they are now urging users to check that they are running version 39.0.3 or later to prevent hackers from gaining…
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GitHub Gets Hit by the Biggest DDoS Attack in Site’s History
GitHub, the popular website used for projects spanning from game engines to security applications and even web app frameworks, is apparently suffering the biggest DDoS attack in the website’s history, which they believe to originate from China. The attack appears to have started last Thursday and has all its staff…
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Chrome to Get Faster with New JavaScript Techniques
Chrome was built with speed as one of the primary missions since its start back in 2008 and now the coders have come up with the next thing to help make it even faster. Chrome is introducing two techniques called script streaming and code caching designed to reduce that painful waiting…
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Waterproof Rubix Cube-Like System Runs Linux, Heads to Kickstarter
Is it a new shiny rubix cube? It could look like one, but in fact Cuberox is a Kickstarter project that includes 16×16 screens on a waterproof casing, having it powered by Linux and wireless charging. The coolest rubix cube-like project is said to give you the ability to run…
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Is Firefox Coming to iOS?
After firmly denying that Firefox could ever make it to iOS, citing Apple’s prohibition of its web engine, Mozilla’s new CEO might be steering the company into a u-turn. At an event in Portland on Tuesday, Mozilla discussed their desire to release a version of Firefox for iOS. Lukas Blakk,…
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Google Releases Dart 1.1, Improves JavaScript Performance
Google released its own JavaScript alternative, Dart, a couple of months ago, while claiming to be just as good if not better than the common JavaScript. While Dart is really good in its own V8 JavaScript engine, it did not perform as well when compiled with the help of its…
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World’s First Chrome OS All-in-One Revealed By LG
LG Electronics has become the first company to announce an all-in-one PC based on Google’s Chrome OS cloud-powered operating system, a platform more normally associated with ultra-portable laptops. Based on Linux, Chrome OS eschews the traditional computing paradigm in favour of turning the Chrome browser into the primary user interface.…
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Google’s Dart SDK 1.0 Emerges From Beta
Google has launched version 1.0 of its Dart SDK today, which is the company’s cross-browser and open-source toolkit for structured Web applications. Google considers version 1.0 as the mark of Dart’s transition to a production-ready option for Web developers, though no browser supports Dart native code at the moment. The…
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