First 2026 cyber recap covering IoT exploits, wallet breaches, malicious extensions, phishing, malware, and early AI abuse.

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, from Express to Next and all the rest. A grumpy Scrooge of a developer might ...

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a landmark Critical Minerals Framework, marking a major step toward advancing both nations’ ambitions for energy and ...

Abstract: Learned Image Compression (LIC) has experienced rapid growth with the emergence of diverse frameworks. However, the variability in model design and training datasets poses a challenge for ...

Apple Inc. has released an emergency security update to address a “zero-day” vulnerability in its ImageIO framework that has been actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a previously unknown ...

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A House subcommittee on Tuesday advanced legislation that seeks to address recent seismic changes in how college athletes are compensated. The legislation, introduced last week by Rep. Gus Bilirakis, ...

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, JavaScript has firmly established itself as a cornerstone of web development. With an expansive ecosystem of frameworks at developers’ disposal, ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a new three-dimensional (3D) acceleration framework that instantly transforms flat, two-dimensional photos into immersive 3D images. School of Computer Science ...