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New Version of Google Chrome Fixes Serious Security Problem

Google Chrome users should take note of a blog post from Mark Larson, Chrome's Program Manager, calling out a fix for a serious security problem in the browser. The problem affects the non-developer, stable version of Chrome and allows the possibility of cross-site scripting attacks, which are becoming more and more common. The problem is now fixed in the new version 1.0.154.59 download.?



Google's O3D Joins Mozilla's Effort to Bring Rich 3D Environments to Browsers

Google is out with an open source browser plugin called O3D that provides a JavaScript API for building and displaying accelerated, rich, interactive 3D applications directly within browsers. There is a demo video available here showing surprisingly good 3D graphics running on a Mac, and the plug-in works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. In this blog post, Google makes clear that it is pushing O3D as a conversation starting point for an open web standard for 3D graphics. Mozilla is working on open source efforts in the same space, and some surprises could come quickly from these efforts.


OStatic Buffer Overflow

Google Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options. The 2.0.174.0 update released Thursday adds features such as the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page.

The five best, new things in Ubuntu Linux 9.04. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols cites his favorite additions.

Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth: Oracle is a litmus test for Linux, Ubuntu. Here's what he has to say about the lack of Oracle certification for 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

Common public license (CPL) merged into Eclipse. The two licenses were already similar, so a merger made sense.

Zamzar now converts text to speech. This free application was already useful for file conversions, and now you can take advantage of text-to-speech features for documents, PDFs and more.