Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, has died at age 81, the company said in a statement. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an email to Adobe employees. ”As co-founders More...
Federal investigators looking into breach at software code testing company Codecov
Federal officials are investigating a security breach at software auditing company Codecov, which apparently went undetected for months, Reuters reported. Codecov’s platform is used to test software code More...
Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content
Virtual gaming platform Roblox is developing content ratings for games and easier-to-use parental controls, the company’s chief privacy officer Remy Malan told The Wall Street Journal. Half of Roblox’s More...
Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage
An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they’ve highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, Google has More...
Amazon has reportedly canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game
Amazon Game Studios has canceled a Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported. The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play More...
NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday
NASA has rescheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter to April 19th at 3:30AM ET, the agency announced Saturday. The four-pound helicopter that arrived on Mars on February 18th with its parent More...
CPSC urges people with children at home to stop using Peloton Tread Plus treadmill ‘immediately’
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday issued a warning about Peloton Tread Plus treadmills, saying the machines pose “serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death.” In a March More...
During Indianapolis shooting, FedEx cell phone policy meant some family members couldn’t reach workers
During a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday, a company policy barring some employees from having their cell phones on them while working prevented family members from being able to More...
Judge in Australia finds Google misled Android users about location data collection
A judge in Australia found Google misled users about personal location data the company collected via Android devices, a violation of Australian law, the Associated Press reported. According to Federal Court More...
Google Project Zero will give a 30-day grace period before disclosing security issues
Google’s Project Zero, a team of dedicated security engineers tasked with reducing the number of “zero day” vulnerabilities around the entire internet, says it will give developers an extra 30 days before More...
