During a Q&A following a rambling conclusion to Google I/O's marathon keynote, Google CEO Larry Page said a few things that hinted at his frustrations with the one platform he can’t seem to find the right interfaces for: government. The Man is killing Page’s buzz and keeping him from finding the answers to the world’s biggest problems. If only Congress, the White House, and the FCC could just see things his way, he seemed to posit, all of … [Read more...]

After being publicly exposed in February as the source of a long list of cyberattacks on US companies and media organizations, the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Unit 61396 largely pulled back from the networks the unit had infiltrated. But now, the New York Times reports, the hackers are back in action using new techniques to go after many of the same corporate and government targets they had infiltrated before. The revived attacks … [Read more...]

Greg Putrich With Firefox 22 now in beta Mozilla has decided not to enable its new third-party cookie-blocking feature by default. The feature, aimed at preventing cross-site tracking of browser users with cookies not originating from the sites users visit, will still be available in the next Firefox release (due  in June) but will be turned off by default. Cookies are small sets of data stored locally by the web browser, originally … [Read more...]

Welcome to your new Hangout. SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Yesterday Google released Hangouts, the company's new video, voice, and text chat application. Previously known internally to Google by the codename "Babel," Hangouts consolidates the previously disconnected Google+ video Hangouts, the Google+ Messenger chat application, and the Gmail-connected Google Talk platform into a single app and architecture. Hangouts isn’t just an app—it's … [Read more...]