GitHub started its Security Bug Bounty program last year in an effort to find unknown security vulnerabilities in GitHub applications. As part of the program, 57 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in GitHub applications have been found and fixed. There were 1,920 submissions in the past year by researchers worldwide, 869 warranted further review, helping GitHub ...

HTML5 has now become the standard technology used by YouTube for viewing streaming media–a step that marks the end of the Flash. Starting Wednesday, after years of testing, HTML5 replaces Flash as the default platform for movie playback within the Chrome browser, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. YouTube announced in ...

Twitch.tv is a live streaming platform, owned by Amazon.com, Inc., on which players from around the world gather to showcase their achievements and successes and communicate with each other. Through Twitch gamers can broadcast their own screens and receive live comments from viewers around the world. As a platform, Twitch may be outgrowing smaller streamers ...

A few years ago, some reports claimed that games on PC were at risk of extinction. Today, however, we can say that, gaming on PC is far from dead, and that the reports issued years ago were completely wrong. As recently reported by the GDC 2015 State of the Industry Survey, the PC is in fact ...

During the Windows 10 event last week, Microsoft Corporation revealed some features of Project Spartan, a new browser designed to ship with Windows 10. These features include the ability to annotate web pages, activate the reading mode and use Cortana for searches. The MSDN blog contains further information to help web developers understand the new features of ...

Research and analyst firm RedMonk has discovered that JavaScript is the most used programming language, but with a very small margin to Java in second place. The rankings also show Apple Inc.’s Swift language saw unprecedented growth over the last two quarters. R, the big data language, and Go, a language loosely derived from C, both saw excellent growth as ...

Google’s modular smartphone, Project Ara, is expected to enter a new phase early next year. Project Ara is a concept pioneered by the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group at Google Inc. aimed at the realization of a fully modular mobile device. Users can assemble and customize the phone by combining different components. The project ...

Kaspersky Lab presented an overview of key events that characterized cyber threats in 2014. Among the incidents analyzed some stand out for size and impact are attacks and malicious campaigns that targeted companies, governments, public and private institutions. In the last 12 months, the Global Research and Analysis Team of Kaspersky reported seven advanced campaign-oriented cyber ...

A new report shows that Google Play, Google Inc.’s app store, has grown dramatically since its launch, beating the App Store, Apple Inc.’s app warehouse, in 2014 in total number of applications and developers. Mobile analyst firm AppFigures, which claims to monitor the largest platform of mobile applications, reported that at the end of last year the ...

Last year the open source Xen Project was transferred to the Linux Foundation, and soon after the community announced the first release version of the operating system Mirage OS. The initiative was started in 2009 under the joint collaboration of Cambridge University students and professionals from Citrix Systems, Inc. Mirage OS is a unikernel for constructing secure, ...