This app features super-accurate GPS, and I can’t figure out how it works – Ars Technica / / No Comments Ars Technica This app features super-accurate GPS, and I can't figure out how it worksArs TechnicaThose replies usually lead to an interesting conversation with an expert in a particular field, which is useful for informing our reporting. But the email that sparked this article was about a new navigation app, called Live Roads, that promises to be … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Can't, features, figure, superaccurate, Technica, this, works
Who put this JavaScript in my COBOL? Node.cobol, that’s who – Ars Technica / / No Comments Ars Technica Who put this JavaScript in my COBOL? Node.cobol, that's whoArs TechnicaLast August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the popular Node.js interpreter. There's more than a little …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: COBOL, JavaScript, Node.cobol, Technica, that's, this
Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” – Ars Technica / / No Comments Ars Technica Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet”Ars TechnicaIt all started with a request from the developers of a messaging application to an open source developer to change the name of a library. It ended with JavaScript developers around the world crying out in frustration as hundreds of projects suddenly …How an irate developer briefly broke JavaScriptThe VergeHow one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScriptThe RegisterHow one yanked JavaScript package wreaked havocInfoWorldZDNet –ARC –Techwormall 20 news articles » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: “broke, Coder, Internet, JavaScript, Lines, Ragequit, Technica, unpublished
Microsoft to open source Chakra, the JavaScript heart of its Edge browser – Ars Technica / / No Comments VentureBeat Microsoft to open source Chakra, the JavaScript heart of its Edge browserArs TechnicaAt JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's GitHub page next month. Microsoft is calling the version …Microsoft starts to open source its JavaScript engine ChakraVentureBeatMicrosoft open-sources Edge's Chakra JavaScript engineBetaNewsMicrosoft's power move: open sourcing Edge's Javascript engineThe Next WebZDNet –WinBeta –Windows Blog –JSConf US Last Callall 24 news articles » JavaScript... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: browser, Chakra, Edge, heart, JavaScript, Microsoft, open, source, Technica
DRAM “Bitflipping” exploit for attacking PCs: Just add JavaScript – Ars Technica / / No Comments Ars Technica DRAM “Bitflipping” exploit for attacking PCs: Just add JavaScriptArs TechnicaIn March, researchers revealed one of the more impressive if slightly esoteric hacks in recent memory—an attack that exploited physical weaknesses in computer memory chips to hijack the operating system running on them. Now a separate research team …Rowhammer: A new JavaScript attack that targets DRAMExtremeTechall 3 news articles » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: “Bitflipping”, attacking, DRAM, exploit, JavaScript, Just, Technica
Holiday reading for a certain sort: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript – Ars Technica / / No Comments Holiday reading for a certain sort: If Hemingway Wrote JavaScriptArs TechnicaAh, JavaScript—a scripting language oft abused nearly as much as the masses abuse English. But what if the great literary minds of the ages were harnessed to craft code in the way they tackled verse and prose, to both get the job done and raise the …If Hemingway Wrote JavaScriptiProgrammerall 2 news articles » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: certain, Hemingway, Holiday, JavaScript, reading, sort, Technica, Wrote