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This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

View: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 Main Page
View: Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 Release Notes

Downloads (via official distributed mirrors):
Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 English Windows | 7.15 MB
Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 English Mac OS X | 17.17 MB
Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 English Linux | 8.66 MB

July 11 the 3G iPhone will reach the snatching hands of the crazed public. The new iPhone supports new features such as 3G wireless (surprise!), GPS mapping, enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store. Keeping in line with the original iPhone, you get the same major features: widescreen iPod, and desktop-class web browser. It also includes smart sensors that help save battery life by adjusting the backlight based on ambient light.
The 3G iPhone is presented with the lines: "Twice as fast. Half the price." The price will start at $199.

Link: Apple 3G iPhone Features

A researcher has created a proof-of-concept site that graphically demonstrates the risk Windows users face when using Apple’s Safari browser. Microsoft’s security team already warned that a "blended threat" was so serious that Windows users should curtail their use of Safari until a security patch is available. This blog post from researcher Liu Die Yu makes it clear the warning was by no means overstated.
Clicking on this link with Safari using default settings automatically downloads a booby-trapped file onto a Windows user’s desktop with no prompting. The next time the user opens Internet Explorer, the force-fed file automatically causes the notepad.exe application to launch and open a non-existent file. Of course, miscreants could choose far more nefarious code.
When informed that its browser downloads files with no prompting, Apple said it may get around to changing this behavior at some point. In other words, this is no big deal from a security perspective, so let’s all move on. This demo suggests otherwise.

View: The full story @ The Register