The Microsoft-owned Github has announced that is has acquired npm, a company with a large registry of JavaScript packages. Nat Friedman, Github's chief executive officer, who made the announcement ...

The NPM registry of JavaScript packages has become a critical cog in the language’s ecosystem, letting developers discover and use reusable code packages. But for developers worried about ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...

GitHub, part of Microsoft, announced on Monday that it's agreed to acquire open source JavaScript solutions company npm Inc.

GitHub has announced plans to acquire npm. Npm is the company behind the Node package manager for the programming language JavaScript, the npm Registry and npm CLI.

A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot.

Only 9.27% of all maintainers of npm JavaScript libraries use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts. The number is incredibly low and a major issue of concern for the npm security ...

In October, the npm team removed three npm (JavaScript) packages that were also caught opening reverse shells (backdoors) on developer computers. The three packages were also discovered by Sonatype.

NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger has resigned from his position. NPM is known for its free JavaScript tools that are popular with developers.