“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

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Twitter has patched a hack which directed users to third-party sites, including adult websites. The company's status feed identified the hack as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, and said Twitter ...