[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps

Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com

In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research. 

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[Link] Hack The Web Without A Browser

Read: 19/1/2022 hackaday.com

It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site.

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[Link] Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?

Read: 14/11/2021 stackoverflow.blog

Every time JavaScript goes through a major update, we seem to repeat the same cycle. At first, developers are delighted by the new features. They move back to coding directly in JavaScript, and frameworks become less popular.

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[Link] Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender

Read: 12/11/2021 www.theregister.com

UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.

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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web

Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com

Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.

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