On Christmas Eve, developers at data detection and response firm Cyberhaven received a troubling email that seemed to come from Google, threatening to remove access to the company's Chrome extension ...

As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So ...

Yesterday, I reported on a Chrome extension, which I’d personally been using for years, that (presumably) got sold off and started hijacking my web traffic. I lamented that Google seems particularly ...

Integrated development environments (IDEs) have become increasingly popular in the age of generative AI, but security experts warn they carry hidden risks that must be addressed as attacks on software ...

Software reuse is a decades-old concept that’s finding new relevance today for public sector organizations pursuing digital transformation (DX). While the notion of re-purposing existing software in ...

Now's the time to start trying to build Chrome extensions, Google says. But some sophisticated Web page features coming with HTML 5 will have to wait longer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...