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For years, mathematical content on the web has been made accessible through MathML. In contrast, math in PDF files was typically reduced to unstructured alternative text—insufficient for braille math ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

Today more than 2.5trn PDFs float in the ether. But will the format survive the ai revolution? PDFs still have drawbacks.

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

From 20th January 2026, Amazon will allow authors and publishers to enable titles published without Digital Rights Management to be downloaded in EPUB or PDF format. In a statement, Amazon said the ...

Amazon will allow EPUB and PDF downloads for DRM-free Kindle books starting January 20, 2026. The change follows Amazon’s removal of the long-standing USB download option in 2025. Only titles where ...

Node-forge cryptography library flaw (CVE-2025-12816) allowed bypass of signature and certificate validation CERT-CC warns of risks including authentication bypass and signed data tampering ...

YouTube's specifications are extremely complex and change frequently. The yt-dlp development team previously supported YouTube using a method that heavily relied on regular expressions. However, in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A widely-adopted JavaScript library has been found carrying a critical vulnerability which could ...