Well-known Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has taken a swipe at security industry veteran Richard Bejtlich, after the latter chided him for releasing details about a vulnerability in Microsoft software after the 90-day period normally given for patching expired.

Google has outlined the changes it proposes to make to the Chrome browser in order to reduce the ad-blocking potential of extensions and, as I suspected, it's all done for the sake of users.

In what appears to be an escalation of the row between the US and China, the telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has written to American wireless provider Verizon asking it to pay more than US$1 billion to license more than 230 patents that the Chinese company owns.