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After an earlier delay in the release schedule, Node.js 8 became available on May 30. Key new features in the release include support for the V8 5.8 JavaScript engine, a new experimental Node.js API (N-API), Buffer API changes, an experimental JavaScript API for the Inspector protocol and several other improvements. Node.js 8 also includes the […]

In a blog post, Google announced that it will end support for its PNaCl technology. Short for Portable Native Client, PNaCl was intended to allow browsers to run native C or C++ code. While Google supported the technology in Chrome, the other browser makers never adopted it. As a result, use of PNaCl remained “sufficiently […]

Open source language Mavo is now a beta release. Based on HTML, Mavo allows Web developers to create data-drive Web applications without setting up a back-end server. It can manage data stored in the cloud or locally. Based on HTML and JavaScript, Mavo is also similar to Angular 1.x. It “treats HTML as a shortcut […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has revealed some details about what will be included in the next iteration of HTML5 standard as well as information about where the standard could go after that. The next version of HTML5 will be called 5.2, and for now, it is slated to include a new menu element, […]

Google has unveiled a new animation tool it calls the Data GIF Maker. It turns data from spreadsheets and charts into animations. Although designed with journalists in mind, almost anyone can use it to illustrate numbers, such as “polling numbers, sales figures, movie ratings,” etc. The tool is easy to use, but the article cautions […]

A new report from White Ops says that 20 percent of the ad-serving websites in existence get no human traffic at all. Instead, all of these sites’ visitors are traffic bots intended for click fraud. Similarly, the report says that 22 percent of desktop video ads are viewed only by the fraudulent bots. The firm […]

The good news for Web developers is that their websites are less likely to be the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, but that bad news is that if a DDoS attack comes your way, it is much more likely to be successful. A new report from Verisign finds that DDoS attacks […]

Cyber threat intelligence vendor DomainTools has released a new report that analyzes the malicious activity on different top-level domains (TLDs). Interestingly, none of the top ten on this year’s list were on the list compiled two years ago; in fact, most of the TLDs on the new list have only become operational within the last […]

The Next Web has published a deep dive into Google’s RankBrain technology that could be helpful for Web developers looking to drive more search traffic to their sites. For those who don’t know, RankBrain is machine learning technology that contributes to the search rankings for some Google queries. More specifically, it uses artificial intelligence tools […]

In a widely expected move, the Federal Communications Commission has voted to propose rolling back the net neutrality rules passed during the Obama administration. The vote doesn’t end net neutrality today, but it does pave the way for that to happen three months from now. “Today, we propose to repeal utility-style regulation of the Internet,” […]

Google’s Firebase platform is popular for creating the back-ends of mobile and Web apps, and now the company has announced that it is open sourcing some of the components for Firebase. While it says some parts of the platform aren’t yet ready to go open source, it will release the Firebase JavaScript SDK 4.0, Firebase […]

If you don’t have any text content longer than two thousand words on your website, you should. So says The Next Web, which has published an article delving into the research on long-form content. Here’s a quick overview: Hubspot research shows that articles between 2250 and 2500 words get the most organic search traffic. The […]