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“Dirty Frag” (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days โ€” Patch Your Server Now

“Dirty Frag” (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days โ€” Patch Your Server Now

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Eight days after Copy Fail shook the Linux server world, another critical vulnerability has arrived โ€” and this one also hands root access to anyone who can run code on your server.It is called โ€œDirty Fragโ€. It was publicly disclosed on May 7, 2026. A working exploit already exists. And if your server has not been patched and rebooted since May 8, it is vulnerable right now.What is Dirty Frag?Dirty Frag is the informal name for a chained exploit that combines two Linux kernel vulnerabilities:…
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GM has agreed to pay $12.75 million in a privacy settlement to drivers in California

GM has agreed to pay $12.75 million in a privacy settlement to drivers in California

โœจ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Government & Policy,Privacy,Transportation ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: General Motors has reached a privacy settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. In 2024, The New York Times reported that automakers including General Motors were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies, and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates would rise as a result. The settlement announcement from Bonta's office similarly alleges that GM sold "the names, contact information, geolocation data, and driving behavior data of hundreds of…
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I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: By Susam Pal on 09 May 2026 Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan's excellent post I've banned query strings. Contents Wisdom on the Web Chris is someone whose Internet comments I have been reading for about half a decade now. I first stumbled upon his comments on Hacker News, where he left very detailed feedback on a small collection of boilerplate CSS rules I had shared there.…
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The new wild west of artificial intelligence games for kids

The new wild west of artificial intelligence games for kids

โœจ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Trends,Friends Like These ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The main opponent to Toy Story 5in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped children's tablet called the Lilypad, a genius new villain in the beloved Pixar series. But if Pixar had had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI-powered children's toy instead.AI toys seem to be everywhere, marketed online as a friendly companion for children as young as three years old, and still a largely unregulated category. Creating an AI-based…
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cPanel’s Black Week: Three New Vulnerabilities Patched After Ransomware Attack on 44,000 Servers

cPanel’s Black Week: Three New Vulnerabilities Patched After Ransomware Attack on 44,000 Servers

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully.On May 8, 2026 โ€” just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware โ€” cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203.Two of the three carry a CVSS score of 8.8. That puts them firmly in the High severity tier, one step below Critical.This is the second Technical Security…
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Billie Eilish doesn’t know if there will be another Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish doesn’t know if there will be another Billie Eilish

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Music,Culture / Digital Culture โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Nearly a decade Before that, Billie Eilish, then 13 years old, put the song โ€œOcean Eyesโ€ on SoundCloud and catapulted her to global stardom.It was the kind of thing that aspiring singers dream of, propelled by a platform that at the time was not known for discovering pop stars. But if you ask her now, even Eilish, now 24, doesn't know if anyone else can replicate her success. "Oh, my God!" she says when asked where the next Billie…
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PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: During the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick. Sometimes clumps would form that appeared to have the combined friction necessary to maintain wall grip, each holding the other up. But, like Mitch Hedberg's observation of belts and belt loops, it was difficult to discern who was helping who stick to what.Take for example, our focus today. We have a completely novel CPU, built by…
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The Instax Wide 400 takes the simplicity of instant photography and literally expands it

The Instax Wide 400 takes the simplicity of instant photography and literally expands it

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Hardware,Gadgets,cameras,instax,instax wide 400 โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In an increasingly digital world driven by artificial intelligence, instant analog film and old-fashioned cameras remain popular, fueled by a mixture of nostalgia and magic. Instant cameras, in particular, are characterized by their simplicity and an experience that has remained largely unchanged over time. Fujifilm's $175 Instax Wide 400 takes the familiar instant photography experience and extends it to a wider format. As someone who appreciates simple, easy-to-use instant cameras and often shoots with the Instax Square, I was interested in trying out…
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The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window

The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every frontier model in 2026 advertises a context window of at least a million tokens, but almost none of them are actually great at making use of all of that information. On MRCR v2, the multi-reference retrieval benchmark labs report, the best model is GPT-5.5, which scores 74.0%. Others like Claude Opus 4.7 at 32.2% are far behind.ย  At this point, a million tokens seems to be the maximum for the context window that the major frontier labs are offering. One major reason for the…
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Nvidia has already committed $40 billion to equity AI deals this year

Nvidia has already committed $40 billion to equity AI deals this year

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,Venture,OpenAI ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Nvidia remains a major investor in the AI โ€‹โ€‹ecosystem, having committed more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies โ€” and that's just in these first months of 2026, according to CNBC. A large portion of that total comes from one bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI. But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multibillion-dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glass maker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in…
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