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Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

Who needs JavaScript? Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector ...

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 ...

The indie web is here to make the internet weird again

The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US — GeoCities ...

WebGPU now works across all major browsers, bringing desktop-class graphics to the web

Following recent updates from Mozilla and Apple, all major web browsers now support WebGPU across Windows, Mac, and Android. The new API grants web browsers flexible ...