Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.
Scientific American

Black Holes May Be ‘Supermazes’ of Many-Dimensional Strings

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...
INSPIRE

String correlation functions of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain

We calculate certain string correlation functions, originally introduced as order parameters in integer spin chains, for the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain at zero temperature and in the thermodynamic ...
IEEE

Hand Sanitizers in the Wild: A Large-scale Study of Custom JavaScript Sanitizer Functions

Abstract: Despite the considerable amounts of resources invested into securing the Web, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is still widespread. This is especially true for Client-Side XSS as, unlike ...
InfoWorld

User-defined variables in JavaScript

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...
IEEE

Hybrid Cost Function Distributed MPC for Vehicle Platoons With Stability and String Stability Properties

Abstract: Distributed MPC schemes for control of vehicle platoons typically employ a p-norms based cost function to achieve stability and string stability. Quadratic cost functions yield smoother ...