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Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS
A clever use of CSS to calculate and display a discounted product price by providing a base price and discount amount, featuring modern CSS features like attr(), mod(), and round(). Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Ghostwriter Targets Ukrainian Government With Geofenced PDF Phishing, Cobalt Strike
The Belarus-aligned threat group known as Ghostwriter has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting governmental organizations in Ukraine. Active since at least 2016, Ghostwriter has been linked to both cyber espionage and influence operations targeting neighboring countries, particularly Ukraine. It's also tracked under the monikers FrostyNeighbor, PUSHCHA, Storm-0257, TA445, UAC‑0057
Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse
When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner and built upstream patches to fix it.
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AI Drives Cybersecurity Investments, Widening 'Valley of Death'
In a role reversal, investment dollars in security startups exceeded the value of mergers and acquisitions in 1Q26 by more than $1 billion, a rare occurrence.
Foxconn Attack Highlights Manufacturing's Cyber Crisis
A Nitrogen ransomware attack on Foxconn's North American facilities is one of 600 hits on manufacturers this year, as gangs increasingly target the sector for its low tolerance for downtime.
PraisonAI CVE-2026-44338 Auth Bypass Targeted Within Hours of Disclosure
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in PraisonAI, an open-source multi-agent orchestration framework, within four hours of its public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44338 (CVSS score: 7.3), a case of missing authentication that exposes sensitive endpoints to anyone, potentially allowing an attacker to invoke
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