Dec 06
As the beloved HBO show wraps up its spectacular third season and heads to a fourth, it needs to start moving toward its endgame.
Dec 06
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Dec 06
Mozilla is introducing a new security feature it claims will make Firefox the most secure browser available to consumers. Dubbed RLBox and available through today’s Firefox 95 update, it’s a new sandboxing tool the company developed in collaboration with the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas.
All modern browsers use sandboxing to protect users against malicious code. The problem is that many of the most advanced exploits chain together two vulnerabilities to bypass those protections. With RLBox, Firefox will compile a process into WebAssembly and then convert it into native code. According to Mozilla, this approach presents two significant advantages. It prevents code from jumping between different parts of a program and limits access to specific areas of your system’s memory.
With today’s release, Mozilla will use RLBox to isolate five components of Firefox, including the browser’s Graphite font rendering engine and Ogg multimedia module. If the system works as expected, the company says “even a zero-day vulnerability in any of [the five components] should pose no threat to Firefox.”
Mozilla is quick to note it won’t be able to use RLBox to protect every component of Firefox. For instance, it’s not suitable for modules that depend on sharing memory with the rest of the program to function. However, the company is hopeful that other developers will use the technology to make their software safer. In the meantime, RLBox is now rolling out to all desktop and mobile versions of Firefox.
Dec 06
Doctor Who’s latest season has come to an end with the conclusion of Flux, a storyline that started off weird and found little footing as it continued these past six weeks. But while “The Vanquishers” did its damndest to wrap things up nicely, its conclusion did little to demonstrate that this was an experiment worth…
Dec 06
Assisted suicide booths, a longtime fixture of sci-fi, may soon be a thing in Switzerland. Swiss outlets report that the manufacturer of a 3D-printed assisted suicide pod called the Sarco capsule has received legal approval to be used by the public.
Dec 06
David Russell Russell plans to return to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday to remember the more than 2,300 American troops killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack.
Dec 06
Jonah Hill And Girlfriend Sarah Brady Wear Identical Gucci Suits For Red Carpet Debut
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe couple wore matching head-to-toe looks that the actor described as “glam space twins.”
Dec 06
Two spectators at the Toronto-Hamilton Eastern Final were charged with trespassing after the dustup.
Dec 06
Texas lawmakers “refused to recognize the state’s growing minority electorate” in drawing the state’s new district maps, the DOJ said.
Dec 06
The last full U.S. Olympics boycott took place in 1980, when the U.S. refused to participate in the Summer Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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