Monthly Archives: August 2022

Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code

reader comments 49 with 37 posters participating Share this story Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history and inserting tracking code into specific ecommerce sites they visited. The five extensions flagged by McAfee purport to… Read More »

Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon

Enlarge / Microsoft says its latest cloud licensing terms are meant to give customers more flexibility and cost control—just not on Amazon, Google, or Alibaba servers. Getty Images reader comments 34 with 28 posters participating Share this story Facing European antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft has made it easier to virtualize its software on non-Microsoft cloud infrastructure—just… Read More »

Sons of the Forest Delayed to February 2023

Upcoming survival horror Sons of the Forest has been delayed until next year. According to developer Endnight Games, the upcoming sequel to The Forest has been pushed back to allow the team to polish the game. “Due to the scope of our new game Sons Of The Forest, it has been hard to pinpoint an… Read More »

PlayStation Plus Games for September 2022 Announced

Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus games for September 2022 are Need for Speed Heat, Granblue Fantasy: Versus, and Toem. Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, all three games will be made available at no extra cost to all PlayStation Plus subscribers on September 6. Need for Speed Heat is the third game in the reimagined… Read More »

Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use

reader comments 133 with 91 posters participating Share this story Japan’s newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on the floppy disk and other forms of obsolete media, which the government still requires as a submission medium for around 1,900 types of business applications and other forms. The goal is to… Read More »