Deno 2.9 introduces Deno Desktop, allowing the creation of native desktop applications using familiar web technologies without Electron. The release simplifies migration from Node.js by enabling deno install to read npm, pnpm, yarn, and Bun lockfiles directly.

Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent. Last night another round of malw...

A petition has been submitted to the Node.js Technical Steering Committee to prohibit the acceptance of LLM-assisted pull requests in Node.js core. The petition argues that allowing AI-assisted rewrites could compromise the integrity and values of the project, which is foundational for many engineers and servers.

Edge.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime that enables the safe execution of Node.js workloads within a WebAssembly sandbox. It aims to achieve improved density and faster startup times compared to traditional containerized environments.

Node.js is designed for efficient I/O operations, focusing on data movement between networks and filesystems. A virtual file system is needed to enable in-memory module imports, asset bundling into single executables, and sandboxed file access.