To understand how one developer's rage-quit from a JavaScript code registry could suddenly cause all sorts of things across the Internet to begin to fail, you need to understand the strange nature ...

A military drone has 3.5 million lines of code inside. That’s roughly three times as many as we find in bacteria, meaning that mankind has, at least by one metric, constructed semi-autonomous ...

Something similar happened in March 2016, when the author of the left-pad JavaScript library (another project amounting to 17 lines of code) decided to unpublish the library without warning ...