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TRE regex engine shrugs off ReDoS attacks that choke Python's re module
Simon Willison built an experimental Python ctypes binding to Ville Laurikari's TRE regex library after noticing antirez had pulled it into Redis. The motivatio
Trellix confirms breach after attackers access portion of source code repo
Trellix, the cybersecurity vendor born from the 2021 McAfee Enterprise and FireEye merger, has disclosed unauthorized access to part of its source code reposito
VENOMOUS#HELPER campaign abuses SimpleHelp and ScreenConnect to backdoor 80+ orgs
A phishing operation tracked as VENOMOUS#HELPER has compromised more than 80 organizations, predominantly in the U.S., by weaponizing legitimate Remote Monitori
Weaver E-cology RCE flaw exploited days after patch, weeks before disclosure
Attackers began hitting CVE-2026-22679, an unauthenticated RCE in Weaver E-cology 10.0, on March 17 — five days after the vendor shipped a fix and roughly two w
Weekly Recap: cPanel Zero-Day, Linux Copy Fail, GitHub RCE, and TeamPCP's Supply Chain Spree
Attackers spent the week occupying systems rather than just breaching them. CVE-2026-41940, a critical authentication bypass in cPanel/WHM, is under active expl
Willison's April 2026 newsletter: Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 price hikes, Claude Mythos security
Simon Willison's sponsors-only April newsletter covers the month's frontier model churn: Anthropic's Opus 4.7 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 both shipped with price incre
Y Combinator's quiet 0.6% stake in OpenAI now worth $5B+
John Gruber surfaced a figure that has been notably hard to pin down: Y Combinator holds roughly 0.6 percent of OpenAI. Against the company's current $852 billi
Alert-driven monitoring: dashboards are decoration, alerts are the job
Most monitoring projects center on dashboards because they look like productive output, but nobody actually sits and watches charts all day. The real product of
Ask.com shuts down after 25 years as IAC exits search business
IAC has wound down Ask.com, ending the search engine's 25-year run as of May 1, 2026. The company framed the closure as part of a broader strategic narrowing, c
Banksy statue of suited man blinded by flag appears overnight in central London
A statue attributed to Banksy went up overnight in Waterloo Place, London, depicting a suited man carrying a wind-blown flag that obscures his vision as he step
BYOMesh pushes LoRa mesh radios to 100x existing bandwidth
A new project called BYOMesh claims to deliver roughly 100 times the bandwidth of existing LoRa mesh radio implementations. LoRa, a long-range low-power RF prot
DIY galvanic hair electrolysis: a soldering iron, a car battery, and a pop can
A hobbyist documents building a homemade galvanic hair electrolysis machine, the only FDA-recognized permanent hair removal method. Galvanic electrolysis works