JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
InfoWorld

Did your npm pipeline break today? Check your ‘classic’ tokens

A spate of supply chain attacks forces GitHub’s npm to revoke ‘classic’ tokens. Despite this, larger worries about developer ...

It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk

It's so bad that it has a maximum severity rating on the CVE database. Fortunately, React's developers created a fix almost ...
Richmond

Michael Paul Williams: Flynn's departure leaves a void

She saw the need for vibrant mass transit - faster buses with dedicated lanes, trolleys, light rail - with wider socioeconomic appeal. She realized the city's core never would be healthy unless ...