Google speeds up Chrome’s release cycle to biweekly updates, a move affecting 3 billion users as AI-powered browsers like Atlas and Comet emerge.

For years, mathematical content on the web has been made accessible through MathML. In contrast, math in PDF files was typically reduced to unstructured alternative text—insufficient for braille math ...

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

Execution, integrity, and provenance determine PDF safety.

Vulnerabilities in PDF platforms from Foxit and Apryse could have been exploited for account takeover, data exfiltration, and other attacks.

Best of Chicago 2025 Credit: Cover and section photography by Kirk Williamson. Creative direction and prop styling by Shira Friedman-Parks, Amber Huff, and Kirk Williamson. Design by Corianton Hale.

As part of the 'DOOM Challenge' to install the FPS 'DOOM' on everything, 'DoomPDF', which ported DOOM to a PDF file, appeared in January 2025. DoomPDF uses the PDF JavaScript environment to represent ...

A new phishing scheme aims to trick organizations into giving up their Dropbox logins using a multistage obfuscation strategy. Data security vendor Forcepoint on Monday published research concerning ...

PDF readers and open-source libraries used in document processing will all need updating to handle the Brotli compression filter. Brotli is one of the most widely used but least-known compression ...

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...

Artificial intelligence and its promise to revolutionize programming—and possibly overthrow human sovereignty—is a central story of the post-Covid world. But for JavaScript developers, it is only one ...