Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be the final version […]
Arcjet SDKs Make It Simpler for Developers to Include Security Functions
Arcjet this week made available a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simpler for JavaScript developers to embed capabilities such as bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection […]
Attackers Testing New Strain of Shai-Hulud on npm: Aikido
Threat actors behind the virulent Shai-Hulud worm that wreaked havoc in open npm repositories toward the end of 2025 apparently are trying out a new strain that comes with slight […]
Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools
Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant push into developer tooling as it scales […]
Second Coming of Shai-Hulud Cyberattack Ravages JavaScript Repositories
A major expansion of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud cyberattack aimed at popular node package managers (npms) used by JavaScript application developers is creating a major headache for DevSecOps teams around the […]
Microsoft Engineers Highlight Git Repository Bloat Flaw
A Git functionality shortcoming means Git calculates changes between different versions of the same file, which ultimately creates repository bloat through the excess storage requirements that result.
Open-Source Software Community Riled by Yet Another CVE
Another maintainer of an open-source software project has decided to no longer actively update IP address parsing utilities used widely by JavaScript developers.
Polyfill Becomes a Supply-Chain Risk to 100,000 Websites
A Chinese company in February bought the domain and GitHub account for Polyfill, a popular open-source library used by more than 100,000 websites to deliver JavaScript code.
Steady On. We Still Have a Job to Do
AI-generated change is not significantly different than the last couple decades where change has become IT’s constant companion.
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
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