What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
InfoQ

Firestore Adds Pipeline Operations with over 100 New Query Features

Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an ...
IEEE

On DoS Vulnerability of Regular Expressions, with and Without Backreferences

Abstract: A regular expression (regex) is said to be vulnerable to the regex denial of service (ReDoS) attack if the worst-case running time of a matching algorithm on the regex is super-linear in the ...
Polygon

Jacob Wysocki on the sincerity of his viral 'You Are a Regular Guy' rant

Nobody expected Jacob Wysocki’s “You Are a Regular Guy” rant from Dropout’s comedy improv show Make Some Noise to go viral, least of all Wysocki himself. The clip comes from Make Some Noise season 4, ...