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U.S. Spies Facing Tens of Billions in Budget Cuts
America’s spies, like the rest of the nation, are looking ahead to a period of austerity. The intelligence community is facing “double digit” percentage cut to its $80 billion annual budget, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said today.
“Coincidentally today we handed in our homework assignment, if you will, to [the White House Office of Management and Budget], and it calls for cuts in the double-digit range with a ‘B’ over 10 years,” Clapper told the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s conference in San Antonio, Texas.
As the federal government attempts to...
Firefox for Android Plans to Go Native
Mozilla is planning a makeover for Firefox on Android. The company has announced it plans to abandon the usual Firefox look on Android mobile devices and will instead use Android’s native user interface widgets.
Switching to native widgets on Android will mean a faster, more responsive mobile browser, but it might also make for a Firefox no one recognizes.
Under the hood Firefox for Android will still use the Gecko rendering engine, but without the XUL interface that powers Firefox on every other platform, Firefox for Android might be missing its familiar look.
XUL, which...