A cron job that worked perfectly for six months suddenly runs two hours early. A payment dashboard shows yesterday's revenue in today's column. Session tokens expire at unpredictable times. These bugs ...

As of ES2015, new ECMAScript standard library APIs have used a protocol-based design, enabled by the introduction of Symbols. Symbols are ECMAScript values which have identity and may be used as ...

Is WebAssembly (Wasm) really ready for production usage in Web applications, even though that usage requires integration with a Web page and the APIs used to manipulate it, such as the DOM?

Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad. It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play.

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. To review: JavaScript is what makes static web pages “dynamic.” Without it, the ...

Java has a powerful new concurrency model, and it works with both traditional and virtual threads. Here's a first look at structured concurrency. Structured concurrency is a new way to use ...

TypeScript is growing in popularity as the programming language of choice for both front-end and back-end developers. With TypeScript, developers can fully wield the power of the principles and ...

The Durable Task Framework is a lightweight, embeddable engine for writing durable, fault-tolerant business logic (orchestrations) as ordinary code. The engine itself is written in Go and intended to ...

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In particular, at ESET’s Latin American Malware Research Laboratory we have seen a malware campaign in which the threats are being hosted on the MEO cloud service, which is based in Portugal. In most ...