While most people are happily browsing their favorite websites and content across the web, a relatively unknown yet important competition is happening between the major web CMSs. If you are a web developer, you have a stake in this competition, because it has a significant impact on how your website is perceived by the world.

China’s first major science fiction blockbuster, about a future where humanity has come together and formed a world government, is a big and beautiful movie. It could be a game-changer, writes critic Travis Johnson. 

At Drupal Europe 2018, Dries Buytaert, the founder and lead developer of the Drupal content management system announced that Drupal 9 will be released in 2020. Yesterday, he shared a much detailed timeline for Drupal 9, according to which it is planned to release on June 3, 2020.

When Drupal 9 is released, it will be the first major release since sematic versioning and six-month minor release cycles were adopted. When exactly Drupal 9 might get released has only been lightly discussed so far, and while it will likely still be some way off, the earlier we talk properly about it, the better prepared everyone will be when it happens.

Drupal issued an update to patch a vulnerability in its Symfony library that if exploited would give an attacker to gain access to higher level caches and web servers.

The issue, CVE-2018-14773, effects many Symfony versions, 2.7.0 to 2.7.48, 2.8.0 to 2.8.43, 3.3.0 to 3.3.17, 3.4.0 to 3.4.13, 4.0.0 to 4.0.13 and 4.1.0 to 4.1.2 versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component. This issue is resolved by updating to 2.7.49, 2.8.44, 3.3.18, 3.4.14, 4.0.14, and 4.1.3.

A still-evolving vaccine scandal in China prompted a range of social media discussions in the past week around how blockchain could have prevented such a situation – or how it might be used to stop it in the future.

APPLE co-founder Steve Jobs is considered one of the most influential tech visionaries of a generation, but there were some things he couldn’t quite predict.

When he introduced the company’s most famous product in 2007, the iPhone, the device did not provide any support for third-party software. Jobs believed that web apps served over the internet could provide adequate functionality but pretty quickly developers managed to “jailbreak” the phone and begin coding third party apps and put them on the device via programs like Installer.app.

Today, Google announced a partnership with the New York-based startup Digital Asset, which makes tools to build blockchain-based apps. The partnership adds to one Google already has with BlockApps, another startup that helps people make decentralized apps, which announced the collaboration last Wednesday on Twitter.

周末，微信公众号推出的一篇文章《疫苗之王》牵动了千千万万中国民众的心。

文章披露一家中国大型疫苗公司长春长生在生产狂犬病疫苗过程中造假；更让人揪心的是：这家公司生产的一批百白破（百日咳、白喉、破伤风）疫苗不达标，25万支问题疫苗已经销出并打入了25万儿童的身体。

此文一发，轰动社交媒体。一时间，“疫苗”成为引爆中国民众愤怒情绪的最敏感话题。

现在，文章虽然在微信公众平台上因为“内容违规无法查看”，但它所披露的疫苗问题成为中国各大媒体关注的焦点。

中国政府网周日深夜刊发总理李克强的批示，要求“尽早查清事实真相”，给民众一个“安全、放心、可信任的生活环境”。

法新社认为，中国的“审查者和监管者拼命要赶上公众的反应，在国家媒体努力掌控话语权的时候，删除微信上的帖子。”