Professor Answers Coding Questions

UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How ...

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 ...

Experts warn this 'worst case scenario' React vulnerability could soon be exploited - so patch now

React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, which powers much of today’s internet. Researchers recently discovered a maximum-severity vulnerability. This bug could allow even the ...
InfoQ

MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base

A recent report has analyzed the repository statistics of the MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. Julia Vural, ...
How-To Geek on MSN

An introduction to property-based testing using fast-check and JavaScript

I will explain what property-based testing (PBT) is and how it solves these problems. What is property-based testing (PBT)?
Security Boulevard

ShadyPanda’s Years-Long Browser Hack Infected 4.3 Million Users

A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda exploited traditional extension processes in browser marketplaces by uploading legitimate extensions and then quietly weaponization them with malicious updates, ...

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 ...