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Why are top university websites serving p0rn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

Researcher Alex Shakhov found scammers commandeering staleCNAMErecords. They hijack university subdomains (eg.berkeley.edu,columbia.edu,washu.edu) and serve p0rn and scam pages. Shakhov found hundreds of abused subdomains across at least34universities. He counted thousands of hijacked pages indexed .. read more

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PostgreSQL MVCC, Byte by Byte

PostgreSQL's MVCC stores two 32-bit XIDs per tuple -xminandxmax. The transaction snapshot decides visibility per tuple. Updates append new tuples and mark the old withxmax.VACUUMreclaims versions only when no active snapshot can see them. Long-runningREPEATABLE READsnapshots pin versions and cause b.. read more

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The AWS Lambda 'Kiss of Death'

A Galera writer node froze afterInnoDBundo history ballooned. PooledAWS Lambdaconnections left transactions open and pinned MVCC read views. The team killed stalled sessions, enabledinnodb_undo_log_truncate, and cappedinnodb_max_undo_log_size. They also set sessiontransaction_isolation=READ-COMMITTE.. read more

k3d is an open-source utility designed to simplify running Kubernetes locally by wrapping K3s (Rancher’s lightweight Kubernetes distribution) inside Docker containers. Instead of creating virtual machines, k3d uses Docker as the execution layer, allowing developers to spin up multi-node Kubernetes clusters in seconds using minimal system resources.

k3d is especially popular for local development, CI pipelines, demos, and testing Kubernetes-native applications. It supports advanced setups such as multi-node clusters, load balancers, custom container registries, port mappings, and volume mounts, while remaining easy to tear down and recreate.

Because it uses K3s, k3d inherits a simplified control plane, bundled components, and reduced memory footprint compared to full Kubernetes distributions. This makes it ideal for developers who want a realistic Kubernetes environment without the overhead of tools like Minikube or full VM-based clusters.

k3d integrates cleanly with common Kubernetes workflows and tools such as kubectl, Helm, Skaffold, and Argo CD. It is frequently used to validate manifests, test Helm charts, and simulate production-like environments locally before deploying to cloud or on-prem clusters.