Connor Cruise attempts to paddleboard in the Pacific...with mixed results

By Jason Chester

PUBLISHED: 06:23 EST, 25 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:18 EST, 25 August 2013

Connor Cruise made a splash on Saturday when he attempted to paddle-board in the Pacific – with mixed results.

The 18-year-old – one of two children adopted by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman – tried his hand at the popular sport during the Oakley Learn to Ride event in Los Angeles.

Wearing a pair of dark blue shorts, Connor was seen wading around in the choppy waters as he attempted to navigate his board with a large paddle – but his efforts repeatedly saw him crashing into the ocean before gamely clambering aboard for another try. 

King of the ocean: Connor Cruise tries his hand at paddle-boarding during the Oakley Learn to Ride event in Los Angeles on Saturday

Despite his struggles, Connor was still on hand to give pretty actress Annet Mahendru a few paddle-boarding pointers.

The teenager was seen chest deep in water as he advised the 24-year-old - best known for her recurring role as Nina in TV show The Americans – how best to stay afloat.

For her part Annet saw the funny side as she kneeled on her board in lilac bikini bottoms and a black Oakley top. 

Floundering: Connor clambers onto his paddle board during an outing on the choppy Pacific waters for the Oakley Learn to Ride event

This is how you do it: Connor, 18, is on hand to give pretty actress Annet Mahendru a few pointers

Connor recently made his big-screen debut in box-office flop Red Dawn – a remake of the cult 1984 film in which the US is invaded by the Soviet Union and their South American allies.

While Connor’s role was fleeting, it was perhaps more remarkable than the film – which failed to emulate the original’s success and saw Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer take a heavy loss on their $65 million investment.

Away from acting the teenager has been making a more successful name for himself as a DJ, a gig that sees him command anything from $5,000 to $10,000 a set.

So far he has spun disks at parties for the American Music Awards and the Oscars viewing party AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Sports equipment manufacturer Oakley’s annual Learn to Ride event sees a host of celebrities attempt different sports, with Vanessa Hudgens and Twilight star Ashley Greene recently trying their hand at surfboarding in Bali, Indonesia. 

Seeing the funny side: Something's tickled Annet as she attempts to paddle-board on Saturday

Washed up: Annet makes her way out of the choppy pacific waters on Saturday

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Connor Cruise attempts to paddleboard in the Pacific...with mixed results

By Jason Chester

PUBLISHED: 06:23 EST, 25 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:18 EST, 25 August 2013

Connor Cruise made a splash on Saturday when he attempted to paddle-board in the Pacific – with mixed results.

The 18-year-old – one of two children adopted by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman – tried his hand at the popular sport during the Oakley Learn to Ride event in Los Angeles.

Wearing a pair of dark blue shorts, Connor was seen wading around in the choppy waters as he attempted to navigate his board with a large paddle – but his efforts repeatedly saw him crashing into the ocean before gamely clambering aboard for another try. 

King of the ocean: Connor Cruise tries his hand at paddle-boarding during the Oakley Learn to Ride event in Los Angeles on Saturday

Despite his struggles, Connor was still on hand to give pretty actress Annet Mahendru a few paddle-boarding pointers.

The teenager was seen chest deep in water as he advised the 24-year-old - best known for her recurring role as Nina in TV show The Americans – how best to stay afloat.

For her part Annet saw the funny side as she kneeled on her board in lilac bikini bottoms and a black Oakley top. 

Floundering: Connor clambers onto his paddle board during an outing on the choppy Pacific waters for the Oakley Learn to Ride event

This is how you do it: Connor, 18, is on hand to give pretty actress Annet Mahendru a few pointers

Connor recently made his big-screen debut in box-office flop Red Dawn – a remake of the cult 1984 film in which the US is invaded by the Soviet Union and their South American allies.

While Connor’s role was fleeting, it was perhaps more remarkable than the film – which failed to emulate the original’s success and saw Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer take a heavy loss on their $65 million investment.

Away from acting the teenager has been making a more successful name for himself as a DJ, a gig that sees him command anything from $5,000 to $10,000 a set.

So far he has spun disks at parties for the American Music Awards and the Oscars viewing party AIDS Project Los Angeles.

Sports equipment manufacturer Oakley’s annual Learn to Ride event sees a host of celebrities attempt different sports, with Vanessa Hudgens and Twilight star Ashley Greene recently trying their hand at surfboarding in Bali, Indonesia. 

Seeing the funny side: Something's tickled Annet as she attempts to paddle-board on Saturday

Washed up: Annet makes her way out of the choppy pacific waters on Saturday

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Firefox 23 lands with a new logo and mixed content blocking

Firefox 23, released today, contains the usual mix of security work, standards conformance improvements, and minor bug fixes that we've come to expect from the regular browser releases. On top of these, it sports a trio of changes that you might actually notice.

Enlarge / The evolution of the Firefox logo.

Most visible of all, Firefox has a new icon. Don't worry—the lovable firefox is still embracing the globe and still has its back rudely turned toward us. The blue marble is, however, much less shiny than it once was.

The other changes are both important for their security implications. First, Firefox at last follows the lead of Internet Explorer and Chrome, blocking mixed use of (non-secure) HTTP content from (secure) HTTPS pages.

Previously, a page loaded over HTTPS in Firefox could freely load JavaScript, CSS, images, and other content from HTTP URLs. This meant that although the page's HTML was secured, its other features, including the scripts it ran, were not. This in turn left users susceptible to attacks that undermined the security that HTTPS should provide.

Internet Explorer has defaulted to blocking mixed content for many years, showing a warning each time it does so. In times gone by these warnings were dialog boxes; in current versions of the browser, they're shown as information bars along the bottom of the page. Other browser vendors, however, continued to freely load the insecure content.

Chrome 14 betas, in June 2011, started showing warnings when loading insecure scripts from HTTPS pages. The block-by-default behavior was first rolled out in Chrome 19. The protection was strengthened in Chrome 21, with stricter blocking and a less invasive UI.

Firefox's protection splits content into two kinds: "active" content (including scripts, stylesheets, and content embedded in frames) and "passive" content (such as images and videos). By default, Firefox 23 will only block the mixed active content, as in principle, the mixed passive content shouldn't pose a security threat.

When content is blocked, rather than showing a highly visible alert (as Internet Explorer does, and Chrome did prior to version 21), a grey shield will be placed in the address bar. Clicking the shield will reveal information about what was blocked and allow unblocking. This is very similar to the system that Google uses in Chrome 21 and beyond.

Arguably on the other side of the security fence, Firefox 23 removes the ability to disable JavaScript in its preferences dialog. That's not to say that Firefox 23 can't disable JavaScript (the setting in about:config still exists and still works, and Firefox 24 will add a feature to the developer tools to disable JavaScript too), but the most easy and obvious way of disabling JavaScript is gone.

The rationale for this change is that disabling JavaScript universally breaks too much of the Web. It's not an option that should be turned on by accident or without understanding the (substantial) functionality repercussions, and as such, it's not appropriate to show it to non-expert users. Users concerned with security are better with an extension such as NoScript, which allows selective blocking of JavaScript without disabling it globally.

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