A recently released update to Chrome has brought a plan to the forefront that has been brewing behind the scenes since 2013: the deprecation of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface ...

Chrome Version 42; The answer to life, the universe and everything? Not for much longer as Google have deprecated NPAPI, NPAPI stands for Netscape Plug-in API. A feature of Chrome to allow extensions ...

Details have been disclosed about vulnerabilities exploited in Chrome and Java during the Pwn2Own contest. Google made patches available for the Chrome flaw within 24 hours, while Oracle patched Java ...

The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

The actions of the Internet services developer Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) have been highly influential in various sectors of technological innovation. The company followed rival tech firm Apple Inc.

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Chrome 42, released to the stable channel today, will take a big step toward pushing old browser plugins, including Java and Silverlight, off the Web. Those plugins use a 1990s-era API called NPAPI ...

Oracle's Java infringement case against Google's Android is reportedly nearing a reversal of last year's original finding that defended Android. Meanwhile, Google is focusing new attention on Chrome ...

Java was once touted as the "write once, run anywhere" language. In theory, a single Java program could run on any Java-supporting platform. That dream never quite came to perfection, though, and ...