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Mathspace discloses data breach affecting over 1 million people
Online maths learning platform Mathspace disclosed over the weekend that attackers stole data from more than 1 million students, staff, and parents after breaching its Metabase internal reporting system. [...]
De-Brainrot Vacations
Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597907 Points: 458 # Comments: 186
How Performance Engineers Find and Fix Hidden System Bottlenecks
Picture a business-critical SQL query crawling for seven hours. Nearly a full workday. The system keeps grinding through data, the business keeps losing time and money, and users are stuck waiting. Then a performance engineer steps in. After a few hours of careful analysis and a handful of precise code changes, the same query finishes in two minutes. Situations like this are not unusual in performance engineering. Turning hours into minutes is exactly the kind of work that makes this discipline
Splash-free urinals (2025)
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597895 Points: 216 # Comments: 120
Trezor data breach impact now reaches 81,000 customers
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]
Nightmare Eclipse Drops CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Avast Zero-Day Exploits
The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits lead to privilege escalation, spawning a shell with System privileges. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Avast Zero-Day Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.
North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit
The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance. The post North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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