Google last week patched 32 vulnerabilities in Chrome, paying more than $14,000 in bug bounties as it also upgraded the stable edition of the browser to version 14. The company called out a pair of developer-oriented additions to Chrome 14 and noted new support for Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, including...

Mike Shaver, vice president of technical strategy at Mozilla and an influential Firefox executive, is leaving the nonprofit that develops the open-source browser. Shaver had worked directly for Mozilla for six years, though he worked longer before that as part of the volunteer community around the software...

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 at age 45. Since the, he’s been fondly remembered for his music, memorable stage persona, legendary style, and–of course–his ever-present mustache. Google is commemorating Mercury’s life through a special video doodle, which over the...

Microsoft last week patched the last vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the The company had patched IE twice before to quash bugs exploited by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security to bring down IE8 on Windows 7 at Pwn2Own. For his efforts, Fewer was awarded a...

Mozilla revealed preliminary plans today to take the Gecko engine that drives its Firefox browser and turn it into an open-source operating system that will eventually work on phones and tablets. Called Boot to Gecko, it is known that the source code will be released to the public “in real-time,”...