At Hosts Del Mar, Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, explains why the twenty-year-old hosting security model of selling cleanups after the breach no longer works, why hackers got frontier AI first, and why proactive vulnerability protection has changed the math for hosts.
WordPress 7.0 ships May 20, 2026 with a built-in AI Client supporting Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, a raised PHP minimum of 7.4, and DataViews replacing the admin screens. Real-time collaboration was cut on May 8 due to race conditions, server load, and fuzz testing failures.
AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.
William Bowling of V12 Security disclosed Fragnesia on May 13, 2026, a Linux kernel privilege escalation that allows an unprivileged local attacker to reach root by corrupting the kernel page cache through the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem.
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