70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/man-who-sa…
The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday
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On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
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Some days I wonder if we are completely screwed. So today’s post is a perhaps slightly hysterical outburst. The news is not paying enough attention to the Petya/NotPetya ransomware, and the e…
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Around the world, building the internet’s operating system—and a better way to work. In a world of tech companies fighting for growth at any cost, imagine one that gives away its most successful pr…
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We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
That's a wrap on the 2026 @webengineshackfest.org! 🎉 Three days in A Coruña: 150+ people working on browsers and web standards, 9 talks, and 20+ breakout sessions — from memory safety in WebKit to MathML Core. Recap, with direct links to every talk: igalia.com/2026/webengineshackfest.html
That's a Wrap on the 2026 Web Engines Hackfest | Igalia
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