It's been over a year since the start of Donald Trump's second term as president. While plenty of people still support him, his peak favorability numbers have been the lowest of any U.S. president in ...

Abstract: Prototype pollution is a type of recently-discovered, impactful vulnerability that affects JavaScript code. One important yet challenging research problem of prototype pollution is how to ...

A "coordinated developer-targeting campaign" is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish ...

Microsoft Defender Experts identified a coordinated developer-targeting campaign delivered through malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials.

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...

Sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, used by nearly 900 NPM packages, allows attackers to bypass security protections and execute arbitrary code. A critical vulnerability has been patched in vm2, a ...

The path traversal bug allows attackers to include arbitrary filesystem content in generated PDFs when file paths are not properly validated. A now-fixed critical flaw in the jsPDF library could ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

For years, JavaScript has reigned as the undisputed language of the web, powering everything from single-page apps to massive enterprise systems through frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. But ...

JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI to functional programming, from the client to the server, here are nine ...