Mac OS X Lion to Include Browser-Only Boot

Here’s an interesting bit of news for the conspiratorially minded: Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, will allow you to boot directly to the Safari browser, bypassing the desktop and Finder entirely.

But before you go all Chrome OS all over yourself, however, thinking that Apple is about to mimic Google and turn Lion into a browser-based OS, note that this “Restart to Safari” option, as uncovered by a MacRumors tipster, is accessed not from the log-in screen, but from the lock screen – the password-protected access dialog that you can set in System Preferences > Security > General.

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How to Install Google’s Chrome OS

The commercial Chromebooks are almost here, but if you want to try Chrome OS sooner than that you can do it. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as you might think. Here’s how to do it.

First, if you just try looking for “Chrome OS download” on Google, ironically, you’re going to have trouble finding it. Instead, you’re most likely to find links that will eventually take you to Chrome OS Linux. This is not Google’s Chrome OS. It’s a Linux distribution that uses Chrome OS. It may be fine. I don’t know. I haven’t tried it, but it’s not the Chrome OS that you’re looking for.

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Google Releases Chrome 6 With 14 Security Updates

Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.

Google Chrome 6 includes patches for 14 total security vulnerabilities, including six high-priority flaws, and the company paid out a total of $4,337 in bug bounties to researchers who reported the vulnerabilities. A number of the flaws that didn’t qualify for bug bounties were discovered by members of Google’s internal security team.

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Rancid IE6 ‘more secure’ Than Chrome and Opera US Bank Says

Microsoft’s creaking Internet Explorer 6 is more secure and popular than either Google’s Chrome or Opera, US banking giant Chase has determined.

The bank’s therefore decided its online baking services will continue to support aging the IE 6 but drop support for Chrome and Opera.

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[Ha Ha Ha Ha, greatest security discovery by the buffoons at Chase. Glad I am not banking with these nut cases.]

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Encouraging More Chromium Security Research

In designing Chromium, we’ve been working hard to make the browser as secure as possible. We’ve made strong improvements with the integrated sandboxing and our up-to-date user base. We’re always looking to stay on top of the latest browser security features. We’ve also worked closely with the broader security community to get independent scrutiny and to quickly fix bugs that have been reported.

Today, we are introducing an experimental new incentive for external researchers to participate. We will be rewarding select interesting and original vulnerabilities reported to us by the security research community. For existing contributors to Chromium security — who would likely continue to contribute regardless — this may be seen as a token of our appreciation. In addition, we are hoping that the introduction of this program will encourage new individuals to participate in Chromium security. The more people involved in scrutinizing Chromium’s code and behavior, the more secure our millions of users will be.

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