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ActiveState has released new versions of ActivePython. Its ActivePython 2.7.13 and 3.5.3 distributions include a lot of popular packages related to data science and Web development, as well as incorporating bug fixes and security improvements. “In this release, data science packages such as pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and Big Data connectivity are pre-bundled,” the company […]

Google has unveiled a new Mobile Sites certification program designed to allow Web developers to demonstrate their mobile expertise. “We know that a lot of Web developers are doing great work on mobile sites — this certification is a way of promoting them to a wider audience,” blogged Google’s Chris Hohorst. “Being certified means being […]

Verizon has announced that after it completes its acquisition of Yahoo, it will merge Yahoo with AOL, and the two Web giants will be known by a new name: Oath. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong tweeted, “Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017.” Recode is reporting that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will not be […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the Turing Prize to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web who was knighted thirteen years ago. The Turing Prize is often compared to a Nobel Prize for computing; it is extremely prestigious and comes with a million dollars. Currently, Berners-Lee is working on […]

The recent rollback of privacy rules affecting Internet service providers (ISPs) has carriers scrambling to reassure customers. “We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual Web browsing history,” blogged Comcast chief privacy officer Gerard Lewis. “We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so.” Similarly, […]

Web analytics firm Statcounter has released a new report which says that Android now accounts for a larger share of Internet usage than Windows does. In March, Android had a 37.93 percent share, while Windows’ was slightly lower at 37.91 percent. Those figures come from tracking traffic at 2.5 million websites. Android is the most […]

A group of developers calling themselves Team Reactide have launched a new integrated development environment (IDE) for React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Called Reactide, the open source tool is said to be the first IDE for React, although Facebook does offer some React tooling of its own. Reactide includes a custom browser […]

Google is recommending that Web developers not use JavaScript dialog boxes, and it is proposing that Chromium no longer support this type of pop-up. The dialog boxes often appear when a user is about to leave a website, and they require that the user interact with the box in some way before being closed, a […]

Google has launched a new website called Google Open Source, and it provides information and links to more than 2,000 projects, including many that Google uses for its own Web development projects. It also includes millions of lines of codes that Google itself has released under open source licenses. In addition, the site offers more […]

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution which overturned Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) Web privacy rules. The Senate had already approved the legislation, and President Trump is expected to sign it. The rules, which would have gone into effect later this year, required ISPs to get customers’ permission before selling information, including their […]

The Fable project has released a 1.0 beta version of its F# to JavaScript compiler. Fable creator Alfonso García-Caro explained, “Fable is compatible with standard F# so most of new Fable language features come from F# itself. However, Fable also adds a few additional features to improve interaction with JavaScript, like erased unions, string enums […]

According to Antonio Sanso, a senior software engineer at Adobe Research Switzerland, software libraries implementing the JSON Web Encryption (JWE), or RFC 7516, specification are vulnerable to invalid curve attacks. Web applications using some JWE protocols could allow attackers to retrieve private encryption keys. Affected libraries include go-jose, node-jose, jose2go, Nimbus JOSE+JWT, or jose4 with […]