Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

Daniel Curtis — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:03:00 GMT

jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax. It enabled easier web development by providing an accessible API across browsers. While its use has declined with the rise of modern frameworks, jQuery remains prevalent on a significant portion of websites today.

By Daniel Curtis

Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects

Olimpiu Pop — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:07:00 GMT

A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique involves analyzing hardware-specific audio processing to distinguish user devices. Privacy-focused browsers have developed countermeasures, highlighting a security gap in current web standards regarding audio context initialization and user privacy.

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Twenty Years of jQuery: How a Little Library Rewired Web Development

Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects