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Firefox 70 to reduce power usage on macOS by up to three times

If you love Firefox, you’ll like this. Mozilla has announced that Firefox 70 will reduce power consumption on macOS by up to three times. According to Mozilla engineer Henrik Skupkin, Firefox developers have made a breakthrough, fixing the web browser’s power consumption on macOS. Skupin said that a current fix for the battery drain issue […]

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Apple, Google, Mozilla block spying Kazakhstan root certificate in web browsers

Apple, Google, and Mozilla have begun blocking a Kazakhstan-based government-issued root certificate embedded in its websites. The root certificate attempts to spy on citizens and works to gain access to web browsers via its credentials. Per The Hacker News: “The root certificate in question, labeled as ‘trusted certificate’ or ‘national security certificate,’ if installed, allows […]

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Firefox 70 to add Social Tracking Protection features

If you’re concerned about your online privacy in the social sphere, Mozilla’s Firefox 70 browser may be what you’re looking for. The company has stated that it will be adding a dedicated social tracking protection component to its Firefox 70.0 update. Social tracking protection will get its own section in Firefox 70 settings. The current […]

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Security researchers warn of PGP, S/MIME encryption vulnerabilities in Apple Mail, other email clients

This might keep Apple’s security teams for a few night working on a patch. A group of vulnerabilities discovered in PGP and S/MIME that could allow an attacker to read emails encrypted using the standards, with one attack potentially allowing for a message to be decrypted by abusing a flaw in the way Mail for […]

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Adobe announces “end of life” date for Flash Player at end of 2020

Adobe’s Flash Player now has an end date: the end of 2020. Adobe says it’s working with companies including Apple and Google to prepare for the upcoming death of Flash, as quoted here: Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe […]