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When the Payment-Failure Email Is the Exploit: Inside the Magento Template Rendering Chain of CVE-2026-75650

When the Payment-Failure Email Is the Exploit: Inside the Magento Template Rendering Chain of CVE-2026-75650 Opening CVE-2026-75650 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that reached the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 8 September 2026. Dutch ecommerce security firm Sansec, which named the campaign StyleSmuggler, documented exploitation starting 4 September 2026. Adobe published the emergency hotfix VULN-3

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Free offline microgreens farm ledger for Windows: I replaced a spreadsheet with a local-first Tauri + Rust app

A spreadsheet let me overwrite a harvest cell. The total still looked fine. That tray was already promised. I needed a free offline farm ledger for Windows: standing orders, trays by the ounce, and books that do not live in a $30/month cloud farm app. No account. No subscription. File stays on the PC. That is Groundtruth 0.1.3. Apache-2.0. I run my own microgreens farm on it. Repo: https://github.com/alexjvv52-ops/groundtruth-app Small growers sow trays, harvest by weight, and sell to kitchens o

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Do AI Coding Tools Actually Make Developers Faster? The Data Says It Depends

Artificial intelligence is changing the way software is developed. Today, developers can ask an AI coding assistant to generate a function, explain an error, write a test, refactor code, or suggest a solution to a problem that might otherwise take several searches and attempts. This naturally raises an important question: Do AI coding tools actually make developers faster? The simple answer is: sometimes. Research on developer productivity presents a more complicated picture than the popular ide

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How to kill a Zombie?

We all have our Zombies; no, not the ones you think of from movies. I’m talking about software, like pet projects and ventures. My Zombie is Contenox—how do I know it is one? Well, each time I try to kill it, it comes back bigger and stronger, with much more hunger than before the kill. Had that problem? I hope not; it’s daunting, eats your time, eats your opportunities, and, well, your health and money. Let’s step back a little: why did I even want to kill it? ...made specifically to work be

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ReadyOn’s Four Walls of tenant isolation on Amazon EKS

ReadyOn runs a multi-tenant platform on Amazon EKS that handles highly sensitive enterprise data. This post describes their Four Walls model: four independent layers of tenant isolation combining Kubernetes namespaces, Karpenter node pools, Amazon VPC security groups, and per-tenant Amazon Aurora databases for zero-trust defense in depth.

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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht.

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