Botnets remain one of the biggest cybersecurity threats, enabling large-scale DDoS attacks, credential theft, and malware distribution. These networks of compromised devices operate silently, controlled by cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities. - How do botnets work? Infect devices via phishing,..

Anthropic just shut the door on OpenAI, yanking access to theClaude Code APIafter spotting ChatGPT engineers poking around—likely prepping forGPT-5. Claude Codeisn’t just an internal toy. It’s a serious coding co-pilot, used in the wild by devs who want answers without babysitting a model. Market ..

A dev takes functional programming from Python class to JavaScript land—with surprising wins. The usual suspects show up:closures,function composition, and some spicyparser combinators. But the real magic? Swapping out side-effect soup forpure functions,Result-based error handling, andhigher-order f..

Out of 3,977 real-world PDFs, 0.5% broke during xref pointer parsing. Not a huge number—unless you're the one parsing them. The top culprit? Junk data before the start pointer. Classic. Other file weirdness: broken xref tables, bad object offsets, and inconsistent xref chains...

JavaScript runtimes aren’t just multiplying—they’re splintering. Big engines likeV8,JavaScriptCore,QuickJS,Hermes, andSpiderMonkeynow sit at the core of purpose-built runtimes everywhere: cloud, edge, mobile, IoT, even smart TVs. Platforms likeCloudflare Workers,Deno Deploy,Bun,LLRT, andNativeScrip..

Visual Studio and VS Code continue to reign supreme, fending off AI IDEs in the Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey. AI-generated devs noted as time-consuming and lacking trust, while Microsoft tools still dominate in agentic AI with GitHub and ChatGPT. More to discover, as always, Stack Overflow D..