The novel malware strain is being dubbed Shai-Hulud — after the name for the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert’s Dune novel ...

"Each published package becomes a new distribution vector: as soon as someone installs it, the worm executes, replicates, and ...

Security researchers have identified at least 187 npm packages compromised in an ongoing supply chain attack. The coordinated ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science, ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

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The Microsoft-owned Github this week announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github’s chief executive officer, who made the ...

GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline GitHub will join Microsoft’s CoreAI division with ...