Erlang on Javascript

While I am working on a Javascript to Erlang compiler for running Javascript code on the Erlang virtual machine, others do the opposite: Alex Graveley has written Er.js, a Javascript library for using Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript, even with an Erlang like syntax !

Javascript does not support natively any kind of threads, therefore a lot of tricks (like using the asynchronous timer callback) went into this and other narrative Javascript based threading libraries to make it look and feel like real multithreading.

Gmail insecurity - check your filters - you may have been hacked

David Dairey's .com domain name got stolen by an online criminal, exploiting a gmail security vulnerability (now fixed). The scary thing about this is that the exploit added a filter to gmail, so even after Google fixed the security whole, any malicious inserted filter continues to do its evil actions. Read the entire story and check your filters !