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Why are top university websites serving p0rn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

Researcher Alex Shakhov found scammers commandeering staleCNAMErecords. They hijack university subdomains (eg.berkeley.edu,columbia.edu,washu.edu) and serve p0rn and scam pages. Shakhov found hundreds of abused subdomains across at least34universities. He counted thousands of hijacked pages indexed .. read more  

Why are top university websites serving p0rn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
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PostgreSQL MVCC, Byte by Byte

PostgreSQL's MVCC stores two 32-bit XIDs per tuple -xminandxmax. The transaction snapshot decides visibility per tuple. Updates append new tuples and mark the old withxmax.VACUUMreclaims versions only when no active snapshot can see them. Long-runningREPEATABLE READsnapshots pin versions and cause b.. read more  

PostgreSQL MVCC, Byte by Byte
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I Decompiled the White House's New App

A React Native app built withExpo SDK 54runsHermes. It talks to a WordPress REST backend and bundles a 5.5MB Hermes bytecode.Its WebView injects JavaScript to strip cookies, GDPR prompts, and paywall dialogs. The build includes OneSignal's fused-location pipeline, polling at 4.5 and 9.5 minutes and.. read more  

I Decompiled the White House's New App
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The AWS Lambda 'Kiss of Death'

A Galera writer node froze afterInnoDBundo history ballooned. PooledAWS Lambdaconnections left transactions open and pinned MVCC read views. The team killed stalled sessions, enabledinnodb_undo_log_truncate, and cappedinnodb_max_undo_log_size. They also set sessiontransaction_isolation=READ-COMMITTE.. read more  

The AWS Lambda 'Kiss of Death'
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How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

A phone captures audio and runs aFast Fourier Transform (FFT)on short windows. It builds aspectrogramand extractspeaks. Nearby peak pairs form compacthashes(two frequencies + time delta). Aninverted indexmaps those hashes to songs, and timing validates matches. Most services run lookups onserversaga.. read more  

How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
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From public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning

The author left JVM monolith ops forKubernetes. They stacked certs:CKA,CKAD,CKS,KCNA,KCSA,CNCF Golden Kubestronaut. They treatPodsas the atomic deployable. They pick fights:IngressvsNodePort. They warn aboutConfigMapdrift. They spotlight runtime primitives:Horizontal Pod Autoscalerandservice meshfor.. read more  

From public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning
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Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Sandboxes

Docker Sandboxes puts each agent session in a dedicatedmicroVM. Each microVM runs a privateDocker daemoninside the VM boundary. That blocks access to the host. A new cross‑platformVMMruns on macOS, Windows, and Linux hypervisors. It slashes cold starts and runs fullDockerbuild, run, and compose work.. read more  

Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Sandboxes
pgEdge is an enterprise-ready, 100% open-source PostgreSQL platform designed for distributed and non-distributed environments. Built entirely on PostgreSQL and released under the OSI-approved PostgreSQL license, pgEdge supports high availability, ultra-low latency, and zero downtime maintenance across data centers and cloud regions.

Its core includes Spock, a replication technology enabling multi-master (active-active) deployments with conflict resolution. pgEdge allows organizations to scale from single-node setups to distributed clusters within minutes.

It offers various deployment options: containers, virtual machines, Helm charts for Kubernetes, and integrations with Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible. pgEdge provides same-day patches and version updates, ensuring full compatibility with the latest PostgreSQL releases. Cloud and self-hosted editions are available, with free trials for development and evaluation.