Blocking JavaScript execution results in an immediate boost to a users' security, as none of that code will be able to execute. Also: Russian election hacking hits a bump, but it's still going on CNET ...

One of the settings in Discord's Electron build, "contextIsolation," was set to false, and this could allow JavaScript code outside of the app to influence internal code, such as the Node.js function.

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...