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WordPress 7.0 Ships. PHP 7.4 Required. AI Built In. Real-Time Collaboration Delayed.

  • 21st May 2026
  WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, named after jazz musician Louis Armstrong, ships today, May 20, 2026, following a delay from the original April 9 target. For hosting providers, three things matter above all else: PHP 7.4 is now the minimum supported version, a built-in AI layer has arrived in core, and real-time collaborative editing, the ...
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The Cheap VPS Era Is Over. AI Hardware Demand Repriced the Market.

  • 12th May 2026
  Six of Europe’s largest hosting and cloud providers have raised prices since the start of 2026. Some by as much as 49%. Not all: one of the biggest budget providers launched an improved product line at lower prices instead, explicitly betting that competitors’ increases open a market gap. Across the Atlantic, the picture diverges: ...
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DirtyFrag: Any User Account Can Become Root on Most Linux Servers. The Exploit Is Public. There Is No Patch.

  • 8th May 2026
Most web servers run Linux. On Linux, there is one account that can do anything without restriction: read any file on the machine, access any database, modify any configuration, install any software. It is called root, and it belongs to the system administrator. Everyone else operates within boundaries. DirtyFrag is a vulnerability that erases ...
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CVE-2026-41940 Live: cPanel Authentication Bypass, Active Exploitation, and What Comes Next

  • 4th May 2026
  CVE-2026-41940 is moving fast enough that a new article every few hours would do more to clutter your inbox than to inform you. We are keeping this page updated instead. The most recent updates appear at the top. For the full background, see our original April 29 coverage and our May 3 follow-up on the 64-day zero-day window. cPanel has ...
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