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The spyware hiding in old script tags

🚀 Frontend Focus #​764 — October 28, 2026 | Read on the web 🖼️ HTML-in-Canvas: Interactive DOM Inside 2D, WebGL and WebGPU Canvases — Arriving in stable Chrome next week, this long-incubated API draws real, live HTML into 2D, WebGL and WebGPU canvases, with text selection, form controls, Find-in-Page and screen readers all still working. Three.js, Babylon.js and PixiJS already support it. Chrome-only for now, but a big leap for canvas-heavy UIs. There's a related video here too . Natalia Markoborodova (Chrome) Creating Dynamic Social Media Cards for User Content — Chris digs into how links u

Frontend Focus · EN

Bloatware in Aftermarket Auto Parts

This story is interesting: One Civic owner purchased a cheap aftermarket head unit off Amazon, and decided to have Claude work its magic on it, like it would a smart TV. What was reportedly discovered isn’t surprising, but is worth knowing about. Among the pre-installed bloatware—­or spyware, if you’re being less charitable­—was a voice assistant equipped with WebView, an Android system component that lets apps display content off the web. This apparently always used about a third of processing power, even while idle, which isn’t great. There were also Baidu location services, a call recorder

Schneier on Security · EN

Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware

German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.

TechCrunch · EN