The dynamic type hints feature in Module Federation 2.0 dramatically streamlines the development process by automatically generating and loading types from remote modules, eliminating the need for shared type packages.
The updates are installed onto a different (and isolated) system image or subvolume. Once the update finishes successfully, you can switch to the new system by rebooting. Again, if the update isn't 100% successful, it will not happen. And because this all occurs on a separate partition (or image), you don't have to worry about it affecting your system's current state.
A few months ago, I decided to breathe new life into a 2019 Dell XPS 15 that had been collecting dust for a couple of years. Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to install updates.
I've had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades. At one point, I had a small server farm of various machines that were either too old to serve as desktops or that people simply no longer wanted. I'd grab those machines, install Linux on them, and use them for various server purposes. Here are two questions you should ask yourself:
Dependabot sounded the alarm on a large scale. Thousands of repositories automatically received pull requests and warnings, including a high vulnerability score and signals about possible compatibility issues. According to Valsorda, this shows that the tool mainly checks whether a dependency is present, without analyzing whether the vulnerable code is actually accessible within a project.
npmx is about speed and simplicity. It gives you useful data like install size, module format and outdated dependencies ... we're also building social features into npmx because open source is better when it's easier to connect with the people behind the packages.
saving lockfile integrity checks (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, and others) to version control (git). The lockfile records the exact version and integrity hash of every package in a dependency tree. On subsequent installs, the package manager checks incoming packages against these hashes, and if something doesn't match, installation fails. If an attacker compromises a package and pushes a malicious version, the integrity check should catch the mismatch and block it from being installed.
I recently wrote about my migration away from VirtualBox to KVM/Virt-Machine for my virtual machine needs. I've found those tools to be far superior (albeit with a bit more of a learning curve) than VirtualBox. Since then, however, I've found another method of working with KVM (the Linux kernel virtual machine technology), one that not only allows me to create and manage virtual machines on my local computer, but also from any machine on my LAN. That tool is Cockpit, which makes managing your Linux machines considerably easier.
Sudo, for those not familiar with Unix systems, is a command-line utility that allows authorized users to run specific commands as another user, typically the superuser, under tightly controlled policy rules. It is a foundational component of Unix and Linux systems: without tools like sudo, administrators would be forced to rely more heavily on direct root logins or broader privilege escalation mechanisms, increasing both operational risk and attack surface.
Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used Cline command line interface (CLI) containing a malicious postinstall script. That script installs the wildly popular, but increasingly condemned, agentic application OpenClaw on the unsuspecting user's machine. This can be extremely dangerous, as OpenClaw has broad system access and deep integrations with messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage, Teams, and others.
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in React Native's Metro server to infiltrate development environments. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-11953, allows malicious actors to execute code on Windows and Linux systems via exposed development servers. Metro is React Native's default JavaScript bundler during application development and testing. In many configurations, this server runs locally, but by default, Metro can also bind to external network interfaces. This makes HTTP endpoints available that are intended for development. It is precisely this functionality that now constitutes an attack vector,
JSR offers a modern, TypeScript-first and cross-platform-compatible registry, integrated into Deno, Deno's developers said. For Node.js and NPM compatibility, Deno 1.42 offers numerous improvements. The async_hooks module now supports the EventEmitterAsyncResource and AsyncLocalStorage.enterWith APIs. The crypto module adds getRandomValues(), subtle, getCipherInfo(), publicKey(), and createPublicKey() APIs, along with support for more curves in multiple APIs. The worker_threads module received a major overhaul.
The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.
