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Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, has announced that it is giving away $539,000 in grants to organizations focused on open source development related to the Web. The biggest grant, $194,000, went to Ushahidi, a platform for collecting and disseminating information in emergency situations. Other grants included the following: $125,000 to Webpack, a JavaScript […]

The developers behind the open source CoffeeScript programming language have released the 2.0 version of their alternative to JavaScript. The update includes features from ECMAScript 2015, as well as modules, async functions, default parameter values and object destructing. “This new release of the CoffeeScript language and compiler aims to bring CoffeeScript into the modern JavaScript […]

The new iPhone comes with a feature called Face ID that allows people to use facial recognition technology to unlock their phones, and several Android-based smartphones offer similar features. Now Facebook is experimenting with the technology as a way to login to social media accounts. The company confirmed, “We are testing a new feature for […]

Google has announced that it is doing away with its “first click free” program. That policy required paywalled websites to offer at least three stories for free to Google Search and News users. That meant, for example, that users who wanted to read a particular article in The Wall Street Journal or The New York […]

Domain name servers OpenSRS and domain management service Hover have experienced “network connectivity issues” leading to downtime for hundreds of thousands of websites. Both companies are owned by Tucows, and Hover services depend on OpenSRS capabilities. Approximately, 690,000 websites use OpenSRS’s services. The outages appear to be slowly clearing up, but as of this time, […]

Giphy has launched a new tool called Sticker Embed that lets users put stickers on websites. Here’s how it works: Web developers add the Sticker Embed JavaScript plugin to a website. They can use the premade stickers or create some of their own. Website visitors see a little Giphy control at the bottom of the […]

Mozilla says that the latest version of its open source Firefox browser is twice as fast as its predecessors. Currently a beta release, Firefox Quantum has a new Rust-based CSS engine that can take advantage of multicore processors. In addition, it has a new method for prioritizing tabs that Mozilla says is faster and 30 […]

The design of the new iPhone X poses a dilemma for Web developers. The forthcoming smartphone has a notch at the top of the screen so that it is no longer a true rectangle. Timothy Horton, a member of Apple’s WebKit team, has been attempting to reassure developers that Web pages will look fine on […]

Recently, Facebook had announced that it was changing the open source license for its popular React JavaScript framework. The social network had switched to a controversial BSD + Patents license, which said, in essence, that developers who used React could not sue Facebook or they would lose their React license. Now, however, Facebook has changed […]

Open source content management system (CMS) Joomla has issued a warning about a security vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over website domains. The issue is related to the LDAP authentication plugin. Joomla rates the bug “medium” in severity, but other security experts say it is more severe and “could allow remote attackers to […]

Cloud-based development tool vendor DigitalOcean has launched a new object storage service called Spaces. The new service runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is intended to host Web assets, such as images, media files, backups and logs. It includes an easy-to-use interface and is highly scalable. Pricing for Spaces starts at $5 for 250 […]

Web content delivery and security platform provider Cloudflare has announced that it is partnering with Google to offer cloud computing credits to startups. Companies that write apps that run on Cloudflare’s Apps Platform will be eligible for Google Cloud Platform credits ranging from $3,000 to $100,000. Startups must apply and complete an approval process to […]