The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

Google is testing Reading Mode for some PDFs in Chrome Canary. The browser shows a Reading Mode button when a document contains enough readable text.

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

Best of Chicago 2025 Credit: Cover and section photography by Kirk Williamson. Creative direction and prop styling by Shira Friedman-Parks, Amber Huff, and Kirk Williamson. Design by Corianton Hale.

As part of the 'DOOM Challenge' to install the FPS 'DOOM' on everything, 'DoomPDF', which ported DOOM to a PDF file, appeared in January 2025. DoomPDF uses the PDF JavaScript environment to represent ...

A new phishing scheme aims to trick organizations into giving up their Dropbox logins using a multistage obfuscation strategy. Data security vendor Forcepoint on Monday published research concerning ...

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression filter. Brotli is one of the most widely used but least-known compression ...

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...

Artificial intelligence and its promise to revolutionize programming—and possibly overthrow human sovereignty—is a central story of the post-Covid world. But for JavaScript developers, it is only one ...

PDF files have become a staple of our daily digital lives, both at work and at home. They work seamlessly across operating systems and devices, and they couldn’t be easier to create and share. Every ...

Enterprise users know by now that they shouldn’t click on suspicious-looking links or download strange files. But what about innocuous, ever-present PDFs? Researchers at security company Varonis have ...