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CISA contractor leaked AWS GovCloud keys to public GitHub for six months
Patch Tuesday broke records again, a CISA contractor left AWS GovCloud keys public for six months, and lobste.rs quietly ditched MariaDB for SQLite.
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CISA’s AWS GovCloud Keys Sat Public on GitHub for Six Months
CISA credentials sat in a public GitHub repo for six months. Netflix mapped 10k+ services in real time. Debian bookworm moves to LTS. A busy day for postmortems.
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Why we cannot wait for better post-quantum signature algorithms – ML-DSA now
Heavy AI news day — GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark all landed within 24h. We picked the items that actually help you operate things.
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GhostApproval: AI coding assistants approve malicious actions without showing users what they approved
etcd 3.7 lands with streaming ranges, Cloudflare bets on global consensus, and a disgruntled OpenMandriva contributor reminded everyone why least-privilege still matters.
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XWayland 24.1.13 fixes two more X.Org security issues
Kernel 7.2-rc2 is out, trusted publishing is getting pushback, and sqlite-utils finally hit 4.0 – solid engineering day.
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Four vulnerabilities in Guix: remote privilege escalation via substitute download
Seven stable kernels out, Guix has remote privilege escalation, and Claude Opus 4.8 is inventing tool-call fields. Odd weekend.
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FBI seizes NetNut proxy platform tied to 2M-device Popa botnet
Quiet holiday week, but the kernel mailing list and the FBI both had eventful Wednesdays.
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Secure Boot certificate expiration: what actually breaks and when
Secure Boot certs expiring, etcd patching websocket auth, EKS gets rollback, and Linux 7.3 targets NVMe bottlenecks — solid infrastructure week.
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Amazon Q silently ran MCP servers from cloned repos; Kubernetes pushes back on AI-generated PRs
The Amazon Q MCP story is the supply-chain incident that makes every other hardening post this week feel more urgent – and Kubernetes maintainers are already fighting a different kind of automated noise in their review queue.
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Scattered Spider pleads out; Jaeger gets 8.6x cheaper storage
Scattered Spider pleads out, Jaeger gets 8.6x compression on a real workload, and Red Hat spends two posts arguing the same S-curve point from opposite ends.