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Firefox 3.1 beta 1 now available for download

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

• Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
• Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
• A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
• Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
• Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

Yes, even the government gets to play video games and get paid for it.

The Cyber War Games is an extremely high-tech extremely complex cyber security setup developed by the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of omeland Security. They’ve been working on it for more than a year and costing more than USD $6 Million.

The world-wide simulation will be used to test the skills of entrants, including the Department of Defence, FBI, CIA, CISCO, Microsoft, and many countries from around the world in an extremely securely-connected environment. The participants join one of the two groups, Planners, who set up the exercises, or Players, who participate in the events by trying to break into the simulation networks and obtain information.

There will be many traps along the way that will throw the players off the trail. The designers will be active throughout the week-long event, injecting into the system in attempt to thwart the contestants with situations unknown to the players.

This project / event is to help benchmark how well cyberterrorism and security interact, as well as to learn how to develop more-secure networks.