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Thursday, 3 September 2026

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- mat shared a post by GitHub on X... back when software updates were just a plaintext changelog inside a tarball.

- mat also shared the opening cinematic video for The Blood of Dawnwalker on YouTube... fifty gigabytes of cutscenes before you even see a title screen.

- Nvidia agreed to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion on September 3, 2026; thirteen billion dollars for a git server packed with uninspected weights.

- Cisco released patches on September 2, 2026 for a critical unauthenticated root execution flaw in Silicon One Nexus 9000 switches alongside an IOS XR security bundle; back when a network switch just forwarded frames instead of hosting its own exploit surface.

- SonicWall disclosed on September 2, 2026 that two zero-day vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances allowing unauthenticated request forgery and command injection are seeing active exploitation; another enterprise appliance built to guard the perimeter by compromising it.

- F5 published an out-of-band advisory on September 2, 2026 covering multiple security vulnerabilities across BIG-IP appliances and NGINX JavaScript modules; embed an entire dynamic runtime inside your reverse proxy and act surprised when it breaks.