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Credit report provider Equifax has revealed that attackers breached the defenses on its website and stole data for 143 million people in the United States. That’s about 44 percent of the total US population. The hackers made off with names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases, driver license numbers, credit card […]

As Hurricane Harvey battered Texas, millions of people hit the Web searching for information about the storm. For a small website called Space City Weather, the storm led to a huge surge — not in floodwater but in traffic. On a normal day, the site is lucky to get 10,000 page views, but during the […]

Google has launched a new certification program aimed at mobile Web developers. Receiving the Mobile Web Specialist Certification requires developers to pass a test on basic website layout and styling, front-end networking, accessibility, progressive web apps, performance optimization and caching, testing and debugging, ES2015 concepts and syntax, and mobile web forms. Test takers will also […]

Jon von Tetzchner, creator of the Opera browser and CEO of the company that makes the Vivaldi browser, said that Google suspended Vivaldi’s AdWords account in apparent retaliation for his comments to the media. In May, von Tetzchner gave an interview criticizing Google’s Web tracking policies. “Two days after my thoughts were published in an […]

For several years, flat design has been one of the hottest trends in Web design, but new research says that that flat interfaces are making things more difficult for users. Nielsen Norman Group conducted research tracking eye movements and navigation for people using websites with and without flat design elements. It found, “On average participants […]

The CEOs of many of the world’s largest Web-based companies have signed an open letter urging President Trump to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), or Dreamers, program. DACA allows illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to work and study in the country without threat of deportation. The […]

Microsoft has unveiled a release candidate for TypeScript 2.5, its alternative to JavaScript. Key new features in the release include the following: Enhancements for try/catch statements Support for imports when using the Node module-resolution strategy The preserveSymlinks compiler flag Other compiler improvements Developers can access the release candidate through NuGet or NPM. View article

Galvanize, a for-profit coding bootcamp whose flagship product is an immersive Web development program, has announced that it is laying off 11 percent of its staff. Because the company has around 350 employees, that means 37 people will be out of a job. The company had raised $63 million in venture funding. “In order to […]

Around noon last Friday, Google made a mistake related to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). After the mistake promulgated through networks, nearly half the Internet users in Japan were unable to connect to the Web. Others experienced slower-than-normal browsing speeds. “We set wrong information for the network and, as a result, problems occurred. We modified the […]

Database and development tool vendor IDERA and purchased Sencha, which is known for its popular Web application development platform. Back in 2015, IDERA bought Embarcadero, which makes rapid application development tools. IDERA plans to integrate Sencha’s products within the Embarcadero line. “Sencha’s focus on reducing cost and complexity to develop and deliver web applications is […]

Making good on an earlier promise, Google has begun rolling out a new Landing Pages tool. It’s a tab in AdWords that can help developers see how their landing pages are performing, with mobile clicks broken out from other clicks. It could help Web developers identify landing pages that might be loading slowly on mobile […]

An article in The New York Times is shining a spotlight in the recent surge in coding bootcamps going out of business. The market once had more than 90 companies offering to teach students Web development and programming skills, but several, including prominent names like Dev Bootcamp and The Iron Yard, are closing their doors. […]