DevelopmentTools
GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next month
An effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery.
BusinessOpinions
Russia wants to ban the use of secure protocols
The ban is part of a proposed law update.
BusinessOpinions
Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors
The alliance’s latest effort to get tech companies into the boat.
BusinessTools
Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer
Big changes are coming to Internet Explorer.
DevelopmentTools
Firefox to ship ‘network partitioning’ as a new anti-tracking defense
More privacy with an upcoming web standard.
DevelopmentOpinions
Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
Chrome continues to display the full URLs in the address bar.
BusinessTools
Twitter lets users disable SMS 2FA and use only security keys
The new security settings are already available to all users.
DevelopmentTools
Google open-sources Allstar, a tool to protect GitHub repos
The GitHub App allows you to set and enforce security policies.
DevelopmentTools
Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads
Mozilla’s browser will soon block mixed content.
DevelopmentTools
Google removes support for FTP and old-gen U2F security keys in Chrome 95
What web developers need to be aware of.
DevelopmentResources
Malware found in npm package with millions of weekly downloads
The popular UAParser.js library was hacked.