The Insider News

The Register[^]:

Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems.

TechRadar[^]:

Does relying on technology harm our senses and emotions?

Techworld[^]:

BI (business intelligence) takes the lead, according to a new Forrester report on 'myths' and 'realities' in the software industry

Infoworld[^]:

Firefox 23 launched Tuesday and it has finally killed off the blink tag, an annoying staple of the Web's early days

Lifehacker[^]:

With the stock market constantly rising and falling, it's hard to predict what kind of luck you'll have when you retire and how much you should be saving so you don't run out of money. One financial expert, however, has found the magic retirement savings rates for most people.

io9[^]:

A team of goddamn heroes (scientists) has gone and found a way to make booze out of used coffee grounds, finally bridging the gap between two of the most popular pastimes on the planet.

Channel 9[^]:

It is available in beta now, please check it out and let me know what you think.

NetTuts[^]:

You can only produce secure web applications by taking security into account, from the start. This requires thinking of the potential ways someone could attack your site as you create each page, form, and action. It also requires understanding the most common types of security problems and how to address them.

ZDNet[^]:

The World Wide Web Consortium is moving closer to a local Web storage application programming interface, which will make HTML5 Web-based applications much more powerful.

Google[^]:

To understand a broad topic, sometimes you need more than a quick answer. Our research indicates perhaps 10% of people’s daily information needs fit this category -- topics like stem cell research, happiness, and love, to name just a few. That's why over the next few days we’ll be rolling out a new feature to help you find relevant in-depth articles in the main Google Search results.

Elliott Kember[^]:

In a world where Google promotes its browser on YouTube, in cinema pre-rolls, and on billboards, the clear audience is not developers. It’s the mass market - the users. The overwhelming majority. They don’t know it works like this. They don’t expect it to be this easy to see their passwords. Every day, millions of normal, every-day users are saving their passwords in Chrome. This is not okay.