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Januscape and Bad Epoll: Two Linux Flaws That Let One Customer Take Over the Whole Server

Łukasz Nowak · 11 Jul 2026 · 9 min read

#exploit#flaw#hacked

Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) lets a guest VM escape to the host and take over co-tenants; Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets any unprivileged user reach root with a near-perfect exploit. Both are patched upstream and in AlmaLinux, and for both the only fix is a new kernel and a reboot.

Which Top-Level Domains Are Worth Carrying? The Abuse Data Most Registrars Never Book.

Natalia Nowak · 9 Jul 2026

Industry reports #churn#domain

A wide TLD lineup looks like pure margin, but Spamhaus data shows that in extensions like .bond and .lol nearly the whole zone is registered and discarded within months. The reputation, deliverability, and abuse-desk costs are real and unbooked, and ICANN is moving to make them explicit.

GoDaddy Warns It May Exit India Over a Domain-Privacy Ruling

Natalia Nowak · 7 Jul 2026

Industry reports #domains#godaddy

A December 2025 Delhi High Court ruling orders registrars to reveal domain owners' details within 72 hours to anyone with a "legitimate interest" and to end default WHOIS privacy. GoDaddy, Namecheap and Hosting Concepts are appealing, and GoDaddy warns it could force registrars to exit India.

Automattic Has Taken Over WebHosting.com. The Plan Is Still a Coming-Soon Page.

Natalia Nowak · 3 Jul 2026

M&A #automattic#domains

WebHosting.com, a premium one-word .com long dormant under AT&T, now resolves to an Automattic-branded "coming soon" page, confirming the WordPress parent controls it. There is no announcement, price, or stated plan. The move fits Automattic's broader hosting push, but its plans are unconfirmed.

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Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own

by Natalia Nowak · 30 Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Google and Blackstone are standing up a separate US company, majority-owned by Blackstone, to build data centers and sell Google's TPU chips as merchant compute beyond Google Cloud. Blackstone is committing $5 billion in equity toward 500 MW by 2027, and late-June hires for a COO and CTO show the venture being built from the ground up at pace.

#ai-cloud #blackstone #cloud-infrastructure