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Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in Cdnjs
Recently, a RCE vulnerability in the way cdnjs’ backend is automatically keeping web resources up to date has been disclosed. Read about how Cloudflare handled the security incident and what will prevent similar exploits in the future.
Next.js 14
Next.js 14 includes included performance, stability for Server Actions, a new course teaching the App Router, and more.
Images Now Showing in Gmail
Posted by John Rae-Grant, Product Manager Have you ever wondered why Gmail asks you before showing images in emails? We did this to protec...
Chrome is faster in M91
Since the launch of Chrome in 2008, speed has been one of the 4 core principles that shape the work we do to deliver a highly performant br...
Firefox 4 RC now available
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more than 70 languages. The millions
We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready
Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives...
Maintaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Friday, March 20th, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try...
Your REST API should come with a client
Why your API needs a vendor approved client.
Defeating Cookie Banners
How Transcend solved the core technical problem of user tracking consent and built an alternative to pop-up cookie banners.
Merging Remix and React Router
We've been building a bridge from React Router to Remix, and we made it so good that we're going to merge the two projects.
Unicode over 60 percent of the web
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Going under the hood of Inbox
Posted by Garrick Toubassi, Engineering Director Editor’s note: Be forewarned that the following post has much more technical mumbo-jumbo ...
Faster offset pagination for Rails apps
Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries.
WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
We wrote a cryptography library entirely in PHP to make your WordPress site secure against supply-chain attacks.
What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014
Every few months, the Ember core team likes to get together to discuss issues face-to-face and set our priorities for the following quarter. This time, we all converged on Portland, Oregon...
Edge cases to keep in mind when working with text
No matter if you are a software developer, a copywriter or you are just writing an e-mail, you need to have in mind these text traps.
Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative
Hologram v0.7.0: 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions, pushing runtime coverage from 34% to 96%. Plus enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.
Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics ...
Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python
How to leverage Python and WebAssembly to securely extend your web application capabilities using Suborbital and Wasm Labs tooling and language runtimes.
Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer.