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ICANN Confirms 1,616 gTLD Applications Proceed. Reveal Day Expected by October 14. Industry reports
ICANN Confirms 1,616 gTLD Applications Proceed. Reveal Day Expected by October 14.
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Sep 2026
ICANN's September 22 count puts the 2026 gTLD round at 1,616 paid applications out of 1,663, smaller than 2012's 1,930. Reveal Day is due by October 14, the schedule promised for mid-September is now promised for the week of September 28, and contention will be settled without private auctions.
Ask nginx Which Config It Is Running. Not Every Build Will Answer. Software reviews
Ask nginx Which Config It Is Running. Not Every Build Will Answer.
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Sep 2026
nginx can now be asked which configuration it is actually running, a question that had no answer before 1.31.5, and a reload now returns an HTTP status code with the logs attached. The Control API came out of the paid NGINX Plus release, and it ships with no authentication of its own.
GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them. Other
GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Sep 2026
A GitHub cleanup job saturated the database behind every authenticated request. A Salesforce legacy login service stalled during Dreamforce. A Microsoft configuration change blanked SharePoint pages. Three platforms, four days, and trouble that started inside a shared service path.
WordPress 7.1.1 Fixes a Comment-Form XSS. The Payload Passes the Sanitizer. Security
WordPress 7.1.1 Fixes a Comment-Form XSS. The Payload Passes the Sanitizer.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Sep 2026
WordPress 7.1.1 fixes CVE-2026-93485, a stored XSS delivered through the ordinary comment form by an anonymous visitor and missed by wp_kses. Two of the other ten fixes came from Anthropic, and three in ten sites run a version 6 branch reached only by a backport.
Verisign Will Delete 22,000 .name Domains That Are Paid For. Two Registrants Are Fighting It. Industry reports
Verisign Will Delete 22,000 .name Domains That Are Paid For. Two Registrants Are Fighting It.
by Łukasz Nowak · 21 Sep 2026
Verisign has ICANN's permission to delete every third-level .name domain in existence, the john.smith.name form the registry launched with, along with the email forwarding service that let a registrant receive mail at [email protected].
A Critical libheif Bug Reachable Through WordPress Uploads Still Has No CVE Security
A Critical libheif Bug Reachable Through WordPress Uploads Still Has No CVE
by Natalia Nowak · 21 Sep 2026
A researcher uploaded a crafted photo to a clean WordPress site and left a working PHP file on the server. The flaw is in libheif, a system library that arrives with the operating system, and twenty days after the fix shipped it still has no CVE number for patch pipelines to match.
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