Abstract: Prototype pollution is a type of recently-discovered, impactful vulnerability that affects JavaScript code. One important yet challenging research problem of prototype pollution is how to ...

User-defined instructions (UDIs) let engineers write logic once and reuse it across many components, eliminating tedious copy-paste duplication. Any updates to a UDI definition automatically propagate ...

The governor just announced plans to remake the areas around Baltimore’s transit stations into housing, jobs and walkable neighborhoods, starting with the Rogers Avenue Metro station in West Baltimore ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

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An interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS, confirmed to be a comet, is passing through Earth's solar system. The comet poses no threat to Earth and will make its closest approach to our planet on Dec. 19.

What if AI-assisted development is less of a threat, and more of a jetpack? This month’s report tackles vibe coding, along with new JavaScript tools and techniques to explore in your AI-assisted free ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object Arjuna 2025 PN7 was thought to be a meteorite in an Earthlike orbit, but that is now being questioned. The new hypothesis suggests that 2025 ...