Google will take a page from Mozilla’s security playbook and block outdated plug-ins from launching in its Chrome browser, part of a new effort to keep users safer, the company said Monday.

In a post to the Chromium blog, a trio of Google security engineers announced that Chrome would refuse to run plug-ins if they were found to be out of date, and thus, potentially vulnerable to exploitation of known bugs.

Chromium is the name of the open-source development project that feeds into the Chrome browser.
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Documents appearing to be plans for Windows 8 have been popping up all over the internet overnight.

The slides, which are claimed to come from a Microsoft presentation to its OEM partners, seem to have been acquired by Italian site Windowsette first.
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Looks like owners of the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment from Sprint will be stuck with Android 2.1 forever, as Sprint recently issued an announcement confirming such devastating news. Of course, those who picked up the EVO 4G will be spared of the blushes, since an update to Android 2.2 is expected in the near future without any concrete date assigned just yet.
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Google has released an updated version of its Chrome web browser that has Adobe’s Flash enabled by default, which should bring a happy smile to the folks over at Adobe.
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Apple admits to problems with the iPhone antenna and offers what is, effecively, a rubber band around the bezel to fix it.

Apple has finally accepted that there is a design flaw with the new iPhone 4. It is a design flaw because, Apple has a solution, the iPhone 4 Bumper, available in a variety of colors, including pink.

“Made of durable rubber and molded plastic, the two-tone iPhone 4 Bumper fits snugly around the edges of your iPhone 4 and gives it a splash of color. It’s a fun and unique way to personalize your iPhone 4.”
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Google disclosed in a blog post on Thursday that it remotely removed two applications from Android phones that ran contrary to the terms of the Android Market.

A security researcher built and offered the free applications “for research purposes,” wrote Rich Cannings, Android security lead, in the blog post. The application descriptions misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage downloads, he said.

The apps weren’t used maliciously and didn’t have permission to access private data, and because they were essentially useless, most users uninstalled them quickly, he said.
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This is still very much a rumor at this point, but word is that Apple is planning to host a special event in the next 60 days to introduce a new iMac, and what makes this special is that it will feature a touch interface, meant for running iOS, which will almost certainly mean that there will be multi-touch support.
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