JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...

What the Script: Supply chain attacks are traditionally designed to inflict maximum damage on structured organizations or companies. However, when such an attack compromises a supply chain that an ...

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ARTool is an R package implementing the Aligned Rank Transform for conducting nonparametric analyses of variance on factorial models. This implementation is based on the ART procedure as used in the ...

Abstract: The Reliability Redundancy Allocation Problem (RRAP) seeks to optimize system reliability by enhancing component reliability and reducing redundancy under constraints such as cost, weight, ...

This is the official Neo4j driver for JavaScript. Starting with 6.0, the Neo4j Drivers is no longer on a monthly release cadence. Minor version releases will happen when there are sufficient new ...

The maintainer for several highly popular npm debug and chalk packages has revealed he was recently the victim of a phishing attack, which led to the compromise of all 18 packages. “Yep, I’ve been ...

Background Low-value care (LVC) describes practices that persist in healthcare, despite being ineffective, inefficient or causing harm. Several determinants for the provision of LVC have been ...