The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
Reclaim The Net
The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window
https://thenewstack.io/subquadratic-12-million-context-window/
https://thenewstack.io/subquadratic-12-million-context-window/
The New Stack
The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window
Subquadratic has launched a new AI architecture featuring a 12-million-token context window that outperforms GPT-5.5 on retrieval benchmarks.
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomware-attack-on-44000-servers/
https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomware-attack-on-44000-servers/
Copahost
cPanel's Black Week: Three New Vulnerabilities Patched After Ransomware Attack on 44,000 Servers - Copahost
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released…
"Dirty Frag" (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days
https://www.copahost.com/blog/dirty-frag-cve-2026-43284/
https://www.copahost.com/blog/dirty-frag-cve-2026-43284/
Copahost
"Dirty Frag" (CVE-2026-43284): The Second Linux Root Exploit in Eight Days — Patch Your Server Now - Copahost
Eight days after Copy Fail shook the Linux server world, another critical vulnerability has arrived — and this one also hands root access to anyone who can run code on your server. It is called “Dirty Frag”. It was publicly disclosed on May 7, 2026. A working…
Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/uk-territory-gibraltar-dumps-raw-sewage-mediterranean
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/uk-territory-gibraltar-dumps-raw-sewage-mediterranean
the Guardian
Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as territory still has no treatment plant
FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging
https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging
Reclaim The Net
France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.
Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree
https://www.reidatcheson.com/sparse/linear/cholesky/2026/04/09/etree.html
https://www.reidatcheson.com/sparse/linear/cholesky/2026/04/09/etree.html
Math, Numerics, and Software
Sparse Cholesky Elimination Tree
Here I derive the elimination tree for the (right-looking) sparse Cholesky algorithm for computing A = LL^T for lower triangular L and sparse matrices A. This tree forms the foundation for most sparse factorization software, even when the underlying assumptions…
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
GitHub
GitHub - imtomt/ymawky: MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky
Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search-multimodal-rag/
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search-multimodal-rag/
Google
Gemini API File Search is now multimodal: build efficient, verifiable RAG
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers.
Debian must ship reproducible packages
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html