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 ...

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

According to Wiz and fellow security firm Aikido, the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, resides in Flight, a protocol ...

Critical flaw in WordPress add-on for Elementor exploited in attacks

Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-8489) in the King Addons for ...

Popular Chrome and Edge extensions go rogue, infecting over 4 million devices with spyware

According to researchers at cybersecurity firm Koi, a China-based hacking syndicate known as ShadyPanda is actively ...
Hackaday

New Browser-based CAD System Is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes

Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, ...
CNET

What Is Vibe Coding? How Anyone Can Make Apps With the Help of AI

You can prompt an AI model with a line of text, and it will generate most of the code needed to build an app, tool or website ...