SAN FRANCISCO--Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. In 1995, Sun Microsystems introduced Java as a way to endow Web surfing with fancy graphics and more ...

Following Oracle’s move to contribute the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) standard to the Eclipse Foundation, the Java Community Process (JCP) will focus its efforts on developing the Java Standard ...

Minecraft ' has a Java version that can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Windows 10, Windows 11, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Fire OS / ...

The US Department of Homeland Security has advised people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks. The recommendation came in an advisory which ...

Welcome to a very unusual cybersecurity article! Why is it unusual? The title of this Security Bulletin and most of its content was provided by Oracle, the maker of the Java computer programming ...

Is it time to give Java the boot? Experts say yes. Java, the programming language designed to make the web fun and interactive, has become one of the weakest links in a PC’s and Mac’s defenses against ...

WASHINGTON — PC users will see more warnings about the dangers of outdated software, under a legal settlement between tech giant Oracle and the Federal Trade Commission. The case involves widely used ...

A campaign to force PC vendors into shipping machines running a purist form of Java has attracted 3,253 signatories, but no major PC vendors, writes Lisa Kelly. The JavaReady standard is a Java ...

Oracle has released two out-of-band security updates for the latest zero day vulnerabilities in Java. The patches come within days of reports that one of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2013-0422, was being ...

In the 1986 movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty, the technology expert in the time-traveling starship's crew, is invited to use an Apple Macintosh, the most usable computer of the 1980s.