Google tightens control over Chrome, blocks non-Web Store extensions

In a bid to protect people from accidentally installing malware, Google is blockingWindows and Mac users from loading Chrome extensions not hosted on the official Chrome Web Store. The company first introduced this policy for Windows users in May last year, but left it open for people using the developer version of Chrome (a more experimental version of the browser that's updated more frequently) to install extensions from wherever they liked.

Microsoft joins with Mozilla in bid for fast Web apps

In a partnership that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, Microsoft has strongly endorsed Mozilla's asm.js technology for bringing graphically intense games and other performance-critical software to the Web.

Web standard promising faster page loads wins approval

A new version of the HTTP standard that promises to deliver Web pages to browsers faster has been formally approved, the first Internet protocol's first revision in 16 years.

The specifications for HTTP 2.0 have been formally approved, according to a blog post by Mark Nottingham, who as chairman of the IETF HTTPBIS Working Group serves as the standard effort's leader. The specifications will go through a last formality -- the Request for Comment documenting and editorial processes -- then published, Nottingham wrote.

HTTP, short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is one of the seminal standards of the Web. It governs how a Web browser communicates with a Web server to load a Web page. HTTP 2.0, the protocol's first major revision since HTTP 1.1 in 1999, is designed to load Web pages faster, allowing consumers to read more pages, buy more things and perform more and faster Internet searches.

Gap in the web-version of WhatsApp jeopardize the privacy of users

According to researchers, sent, and after removal of the photo is still available for viewing by the recipient WhatsApp Web.

Not so long ago  WhatsApp developers introduced a new service called WhatsApp Web, with which users can synchronize the message history in the mobile and desktop versions of the program. Despite the fact that after the appearance of new options less than two weeks, security researchers have discovered a flaw that affects the privacy of user data.