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Zayo Stays Ahead of AI Infrastructure Demand Through Long-Term Fiber Supply Agreement with Corning

Commitment strengthens execution behind Zayo’s expanded plan to add 15,000 route miles through 2030 Key facts: Zayo significantly expands its relationship with Corning to secure a major portion of the fiber optic cable required for its long-haul network expansion through the remainder of the decade. AI infrastructure growth is accelerating demand for new network construction […]

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The antivirus said 'no malware detected'. It was sitting right there on the disk.

A real incident, and a lesson about green lights. Every command output, version number and CVE ID below is from the actual investigation. Nothing was invented for the narrative.

  • Malware hidden on Synology NAS despite no threats detected by antivirus scan
  • Packers and shell scripts used to evade signature-based malware detection
  • Unpatched vulnerability and exposed remote access feature allowed remote code execution

Computing WHO growth percentiles on-device

Every baby tracker shows growth percentiles. "Your daughter is in the 72nd percentile for weight." It looks like a lookup — find the row for her age, compare, print a number. It isn't.

Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, glib2, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel-rt, libcupsfilters, mysql8.4, mysql:8.4, pcp, perl-Date-Manip, php8.4…

[$] The beginning of the 7.3 merge window

As of this writing, 2,346 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 7.3 kernel release. That, clearly, is a mere down payment on the flood that is to come.

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