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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now available to buy digitally in the US, releasing several days before its intended 17 March release date. This mirrors the fact that Disney is releasing Frozen 2 on Disney Plus on Sunday, three months earlier than planned. It arrives as a lot of people across the world are spending more of their weekends

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 74. Wait, didn't we just get a new Firefox a minute or two ago?

It may feel that way. Firefox 74 arrived just four weeks after its predecessor, continuing the faster release cadence promised last year.

The refreshed browser dropped support for the now-obsolete TLS 1.0 and 1.1 cryptographic protocols, blocked all add-on "side-loading" except that allowed by enterprise-managed group policy, and enabled support for a header element designed to safeguard against attacks based on the Meltdown and Spectre hardware-based vulnerabilities first revealed two years ago.

Mozilla's security engineers also patched a dozen vulnerabilities, half of them labeled "High," Mozilla's second-most-serious threat label. As usual, some of the flaws might be used by criminals.

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Apple has arguably bowed to the inevitable, announcing that it intends to go ahead with its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but in an &entirely new online format.& And it promises that, as expected, the event will be &big.&

This is the right decision

No matter how much you may have been anticipating attending WWDC in San Jose this year, in your heart of hearts you know this is the correct decision as the coronavirus pandemic strikes deep into the heart of everybodyfamilies and communities.

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