NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to hide a second-stage payload to steal cookies from a user's web browser. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this ...
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On the Incorporation Mechanism of Hydrophobic Quantum Dots in Silica Spheres by a Reverse Microemulsion Method

‡R.K., M.M.v.S., and J.H. have contributed equally to this work. †Condensed Matter and Interfaces. §Soft Condensed Matter. Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads ...
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Slugify a string

Useful for URLs, filenames, and IDs. It handles most major languages, including German (umlauts), Vietnamese, Arabic, Russian, and more. Add your own custom replacements. The replacements are run on ...
GitHub

LZ-based compression algorithm for JavaScript

The file layout has changed in version 2, this is now a joint commonjs / esmodule project so modern build tools should be happy with it, but if importing a file directly (such as in a direct ...