HPE Aruba Networking’s Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) client for Linux is the kind of software most organizations forget about until it breaks—or until it shows up in a security bulletin with the phrase “arbitrary code execution with root privileges.” Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened in January 2026. HPE published HPESBNW04994 rev.2, a security bulletin describing…
Hetzner Warns of Phishing Emails Stealing Logins and Credit Card Data: What Customers Should Do (and What Everyone Else Can Learn)
Hetzner has issued a public warning about phishing emails circulating in its name that attempt to steal customer login credentials and, in some cases, credit card data. The alert appears on Hetzner’s official status page as an ongoing incident titled “Phishing emails stealing logins and credit card data,” first posted with a start time of…
Chromebooks, Classrooms, and Customer Loyalty: What Google’s Internal ‘Onboarding Kids’ Deck Reveals About the Business of Education Tech
When schools buy laptops, they’re not just buying hardware. They’re buying an operating system, an identity provider, a default browser, an app ecosystem, a classroom management stack, and—if the vendor’s internal slide decks are to be believed—a long-term relationship that can outlive the student’s graduation gown by several decades. That’s the uncomfortable subtext behind a…
Railway’s $100M Series B Is a Bet That “AI-Native” Cloud Won’t Look Like AWS (and That Developers Are Done Waiting)
On January 22, 2026, Railway announced a $100 million Series B that reads like a polite but unmistakable challenge to the hyperscalers: the era of “click here, wait two minutes, paste IAM policy, then wait again” is running out of cultural runway. The news was first reported by Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, which is the…
Cloudflare’s ACME Path Vulnerability: When Certificate Automation Accidentally Hit the WAF Off Switch
On January 19, 2026, Cloudflare published a short but important disclosure: a vulnerability in its ACME validation logic could, under certain conditions, disable some Web Application Firewall (WAF) features for requests aimed at the ACME HTTP-01 challenge path /.well-known/acme-challenge/*. The company says it has patched the issue and that customers do not need to take…
Amazon EC2 G7e Launch: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs arrive for generative AI inference and serious graphics
AWS has a habit of shipping new EC2 instance families like it’s dropping surprise albums. On January 20, 2026, the company quietly added another entry to the “please update your capacity plans” list: Amazon EC2 G7e, a new graphics-optimized instance family accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. The headline promise:…
Cloudflare’s ACME Path Vulnerability: When Certificate Automation Briefly Outran the WAF
On January 19, 2026, Cloudflare published a short but important security write-up: How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic. It’s the kind of post that reads like a calm incident note (“no customer action required”), but under the hood it’s a classic modern internet story: automation, edge logic, and security controls all…
Amazon EC2 X8i is Generally Available: Custom Intel Xeon 6, Up to 6TB RAM, and Why Memory Bandwidth Suddenly Matters Again
AWS has a long tradition of releasing EC2 instance families that sound like they were named by a committee with a Scrabble addiction. But every now and then, the letters actually signal something meaningful: a shift in what the cloud is optimizing for. This week’s example is the new Amazon EC2 X8i family, now generally…
OpenFOAM on AWS Without the Usual HPC Drama: A Deep Dive into Yobitel’s Enterprise AMIs
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a weird superpower: it can turn an innocuous-looking spreadsheet of boundary conditions into a week-long argument about turbulence models, mesh quality, and whose workstation is “allowed” to run overnight. OpenFOAM, the open-source CFD workhorse, has long been the tool of choice for teams that want deep control, automation, and no…
Hetzner Warns of Phishing Emails Stealing Logins and Credit Card Data: What’s Happening, Why It Works, and How to Protect Your Cloud Account
On the internet, every week is Shark Week. But some weeks the sharks wear a vendor logo and politely ask you to “urgently accept the new data protection policies.” Hetzner, one of Europe’s best-known infrastructure providers, has published an incident notice titled “Phishing emails stealing logins and credit card data” warning customers about ongoing email…