During this Friday’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking about JavaScript on microcontrollers. [Gordon Williams] will be joining us to talk about Espruino.

Two Showtime domains are currently loading and running Coinhive, a JavaScript library that mines Monero using the CPU resources of users visiting Showtime's websites.

If its done in Javascript, it becomes trivial to short circuit the timer or just enable the continue button with a click of a bookmarklet so you do not have to wait.

A new vulnerability has been found in a Google Chrome exploit that targets JavaScript engine to let attackers hack almost any Android device.