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If your website runs on the Apache Web Server, you may need to apply a security patch immediately. A freelance journalist has discovered a vulnerability in the Web server software that can allow attackers to access server memory. Optionsbleed, as the vulnerability has been named, could be particularly risky for companies that share Web server […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has officially published the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification as a Recommendation. That decision makes EME an official Web standard. The vote in this situation was unusually close. The final tally showed 58.4 percent of W3C members approving the specification, 30.8 percent opposing and 10.8 percent abstaining. EME provides […]

Facebook has released React 16, also known as React Fiber, the latest version of its JavaScript library for Web and mobile development. However, almost all of the discussion about the update has centered on the framework’s open source license rather than on its technical features. For this release, Facebook added a patents clause to the […]

Back in June, Apple announced that it would add Intelligent Tracking Prevention to the Safari browser. The feature restricts ad targeting by taking steps such as limiting cookies for ad retargeting to 24 hours and deleting cookies if website visitors don’t return within 30 days. Several advertising groups attacked the move, calling Intelligent Tracking Prevention […]

Google has announced that the release of Angular 5 will be delayed until October 23. The next version of the popular open source JavaScript framework was to have arrived in September. Key improvements in Angular 5 include support for progressive Web apps, a build optimizer and improvements related to Material Design. As a result of […]

If you have video on your website that is set to play automatically, site visitors using the Chrome browser will have a very different experience starting in January. Google says it is making changes to Chrome so that videos will play automatically only if users have demonstrated interest in the content, either by clicking or […]

It may soon become more common for visitors to make their way to websites through image search. Microsoft has announced that Bing Visual Search has new machine learning capabilities that can automatically detect objects in online photos. The search engine also has a new People Recognition feature that can identify and highlight celebrities in photos. […]

Credit report provider Equifax has revealed more details about the cause of the data breach that exposed personal information for up to 143 million Americans. The company said that attackers exploited its website through a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web development framework. Specifically, the attackers used a known vulnerability called CVE-2017-5638. A fix for […]

Online review site Yelp has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google is using Yelp’s content, particularly photos, in ways that violate Google’s 2013 antitrust settlement. That agreement includes a “do not crawl” provision which states that Google must give website owners the ability to opt out of having their […]

Google has announced that its Safe Browsing tool for the Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers now protects more than 3 billion devices “from badness on the Internet.” That’s a billion more devices than in 2016. Safe Browsing technology is also integrated into Google Play Protect and Gmail. In addition, Google noted, “Safe Browsing is also […]

A new report from Pew has found that 67 percent of US adults get some of their news from social media and 20 percent “often” do so. That’s a modest increase from May 2016, when 62 percent of Americans over the age of 18 were getting news from social media and 18 percent were doing […]

Facebook has released the 1.0 version of Yarn, its open source JavaScript package management client. Many JavaScript developers use Node Package Manager (npm) to manage the code libraries that they use for creating Web applications, but Yarn offers an alternative that is said to be faster and more reliable. According to Yarn developers, it can […]