From a working developer’s point of view, here’s what Mozilla focused on when creating Rust, and how the company plans to replace Gecko (the existing Firefox engine) with Servo.
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Apple, Google call on Obama to reject cryptographic backdoors
Tech companies and civil liberties organizations joined forces today to ask President Obama to reject any effort to mandate backdoors into security products. Such efforts are doomed to failure — and could harm both the US economy and its reputation abroad.
Intel, eASIC in deal to build custom hardware, server solutions
Intel has announced a new deal with ASIC manufacturer eASIC. This new partnership comes in the wake of Chipzilla’s failed attempt to buy FPGA manufacturer Altera — is Intel pivoting its datacenter strategy towards entirely different kinds of chips?
Ultra HD Blu-ray standard finalized: 4K support, HDR, ‘digital bridge’ sharing
The Blu-ray Disc Association has formalized the upcoming UHD standard for next-generation disc players, including an option to stream movies across a home network. We delve into what a digital bridge is and how the new capability is expected to work.
ExtremeTalk: Windows 10 mobile can run iOS, Android apps — do you care?
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 mobile will also run Android and iOS applications, but is that enough to convert any users from other platforms?