Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they've read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd who get worked up by articles on Boing Boing, and the paranoid lawyers at large Web companies who want to avoid money-fishing…

Google copied Apple Web browser's bug, too

Nicholas Carlson

9/03/08 12:00pm

Security researcher Aviv Raff says Google's new browser Chrome exposes users "malicious hacker attacks," because it allows users to launch executable files directly from the browser and without warning. Raff created a to show how with successful bait, Google Chrome users could accidentally download and launch a Java…

Google cofounder on no Chrome for Macs: "It's embarrassing"

Nicholas Carlson

9/03/08 11:20am

After this press conference to announce Google's new Web browser, Chrome, Google cofounder Sergey Brin asked BoomTown's Kara Swisher if she'd try it out. "But you don't have a Mac version, baby, so no," Swisher tells him in this clip, excerpted from Swisher's longer interview. "I know, I know, it's embarrassing," says…

Google's Chrome dream — a mainframe-era computing monopoly

Jackson West

9/03/08 6:00am

" I think operating systems are kind of an old way to think of the world," Google cofounder Sergey Brin told a klatsch of reporters after the Mountain View ad agency's song-and-dance routine to announce its new browser, Chrome. Brin is a little older than me, which I find surprising — not because I'm so old, but…

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