We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

We type a question, read an artificial intelligence-generated summary of the results and leave with our answer. Google is ...
GitHub

A tiny JavaScript debugging utility modelled after Node.js core's debugging technique. Works in Node.js and web browsers.

debug exposes a function; simply pass this function the name of your module, and it will return a decorated version of console.error for you to pass debug statements ...
Tech Times

Agentic Coding Bottleneck: Fable 5 Engineer Says You, Not the Model, Are Now the Limit

Fable 5 engineer Thariq Shihipar says your blind spots, not the model, now cap results. Anthropic research on 400,000 Claude ...
LGBTQ Nation

A Democratic Socialist revolution is exactly what we need to save America

In front of a group of Christian conservatives who are part of the so-called Faith and Freedom Coalition, Donald Trump strawman condemned the landslide victories of two New York City Democratic ...

The most important part of your website is the part nobody sees. Here’s why (and how to strengthen it).

Findability now depends as much on technical execution as on layout and graphic design.
IEEE

Guided Mutation Testing for JavaScript Web Applications

Abstract: Mutation testing is an effective test adequacy assessment technique. However, there is a high computational cost in executing the test suite against a potentially large pool of generated ...
IEEE

Workload characterization of server-side JavaScript

Abstract: Recently, scripting languages are becoming popular as languages to develop server-side applications. Modern JavaScript compilers significantly optimize JavaScript code, but their main ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. The tool is highly ...
Fair Observer

The Fall of Democracy Is a Markov Process

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical React, Next.js flaw lets hackers execute code on servers

A maximum severity vulnerability, dubbed 'React2Shell', in the React Server Components (RSC) 'Flight' protocol allows remote code execution without authentication in React and Next.js applications.
Fair Observer

To Understand Trump, Take Him Seriously, but Not Literally

To try to foresee the next four years with US President-Elect Donald Trump, we should remember what we learned during his first presidential term: It is a mistake to take him literally and mock him ...
The Washington Post

Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies

Visitors capture cellphone images and peer through a security fence along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington on July 7, 2022. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Last week, ...