Flash Player will reach its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after always being a security risk to those who have used it over the years. The demise of Adobe's multimedia software platform was ...

Adobe Flash had a more than 20-year run as a major piece of multimedia software. But that is coming to an end. Browsers like Google Chrome are unplugging Flash. Google announced in 2017 that over the ...

Microsoft has released a Windows update that removes Adobe's Flash Player before it reaches end of support on December 31, 2020. Update KB4577586 is part of Microsoft's effort to follow through with ...

Jason Murdock is a staff reporter for Newsweek. Based in London, Murdock previously covered cybersecurity for the International Business Times UK and B2B tech for V3.co.uk. Winner of The Drum's ...

Why and when will Adobe Flash Player become outdated? The open standards HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly provide much more features than Flash Player and also have much better protection against viruses ...

Microsoft ended support for Flash Player in December. Upcoming Windows 10 updates will fully take the software off your device. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a ...

Supportive of everything from browser games to live streaming, Adobe Flash wasn’t the internet’s favorite multimedia platform without reason. Even in its heyday, though, Flash wasn’t universally loved ...

Adobe and Apple are jockeying for power over the mobile computing future, but it's not as simple as the fanboys and haters would have you think. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Adobe in 2017 announced plans to end support for its Flash browser plug-in at the end of 2020. Now that it's officially 2021, support for the software has ended, and Adobe will begin blocking content ...

It's definitely going to disappear this time, no really... Adobe's Flash Player reached the end of its life as 2020 came to a close, but the software continues to linger on Windows machines around the ...

After 24 years, Adobe Flash Player — the once-ubiquitous utility that fueled the Internet's transformation from text-only to a multimedia bonanza — is heading into the sunset. Adobe this week issued ...