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‘Super app’ aimed at UK students uses servers owned by Chinese firm on US blacklist

ZyMix platform has contract with Tencent, which US alleges has links to People’s Liberation Army A new messaging and payment “super app” marketed at British students uses servers owned by a Chinese company that has been put on a US military blacklist for its alleged affiliation to the People’s Liberation Army. ZyMix, which is being pushed on university campuses as the UK’s first super app…

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Myth FAQ: A Clone Does Not Register the Runner

Did your open shell just register a runner for you? I keep seeing that leap in pipeline review notes. The files look familiar, so the leap feels easy. A copied tree is not a runner process on GitLab.

  • Cloning a project does not register a runner or trigger job processing.
  • Runner registration requires explicit action from an administrator.
  • Docker binary presence does not configure executor for container jobs.

·dev.to

NTFS vs FAT32 vs exFAT: Which Format Should You Use? (Windows 2026)

Short answer: use NTFS for Windows system drives and internal disks, exFAT for USB sticks, external drives and SD cards that move between Windows and Mac, and FAT32 only when an older device (a car…

  • FAT32 limited to 4 GB files and 32 GB volumes
  • NTFS supports unlimited file sizes and permissions
  • exFAT ideal for large flash drives, lacks NTFS features

·dev.to

1.44 MB was never 1.44 MB

Your drive says 1 TB. Your operating system says 931 GB. Neither one lied to you. Two prefixes share one spelling, and the label kept the flattering one.

  • 1.44 MB refers to a unique unit, not 1.44 MB or 1.44 MiB
  • 1.44 MB equals 1,474,560 bytes, or 1,440 KiB
  • Confusion arises from the chosen prefix for labeling, not hardware

·dev.to

Detecting and Hunting CVE-2026-106218 Exploitation in TeamCity Environments

Detecting and Hunting CVE-2026-106218 Exploitation in TeamCity Environments Why detection is the hard part CVE-2026-106218 is a sandbox escape in the TeamCity Kotlin DSL integration, scored 8.8, that…

  • CVE-2026-106218 is a sandbox escape vulnerability in TeamCity Kotlin DSL integration
  • No confirmed attacks in the wild or public proof-of-concepts
  • 1,868 instances of TeamCity operating globally

·dev.to

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