Neowin News Feed for: Crippling

YouTube seemingly intentionally slow loading on Firefox while Google Chrome works fine

Sayan Sen — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:46:01 +0000

If you happen to use Firefox and you recently noticed YouTube loading up slowly on it, chances are it's not your internet or your hardware— Firefox itself allegedly causing the issue. Read more...

Links to sites that Elon Musk publicly attacked apparently load slower on X

Steve Bennett — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:44:01 +0000

In the saga that is Elon Musk's management of X, it's being reported that links to websites that he has been having arguments with online are now loading slower, with delays of up to 5 seconds. Read more...

Yandex alleges AMD's Windows drivers unfairly favor Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

Sayan Sen — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:30:04 +0000

AMD GPU drivers may be unfairly favoring certain browsers, according to a report by Russian browser maker Yandex. The firm alleges that simply renaming a file can reduce crashes by over five times. Read more...

Verizon crippling Droid features in Froyo update

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:45:21 +0000

Last week Neowin reported that Verizon had posted the instructions to update your Droid to the latest Android OS, Android 2.2 Froyo. With that update InformationWeek points out that Verizon will be disabling a couple... Read more...

Crippling malware attack strikes in Italy

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:49:18 +0000

Italy is suffering from a barrage of remote attacks launched from hundreds of compromised websites, security experts have warned. Researchers at Symantec reported that attackers have injected 'iframe' tags within the HTML files on compromised... Read more...

Is Google DRM crippling culture as great as it seems?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:09:17 +0000

Anyone the least bit concerned about DRM (digital rights management) technology would likely have been put off by Google co-founder Larry Page's ho-hum approach to revealing the company's new proprietary media locks. And with good... Read more...