Daily Tech News 3 May 2026

• The CPanel exploit is being exploited as a ransomware attack that encrypts your entire website. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Well, I dodged that one, at least.

  Numerous sources told BleepingComputer that hackers have been exploiting the cPanel flaw since Thursday to breach servers and deploy a Go-based Linux encryptor for the "Sorry" ransomware [VirusTotal].

  Thanks, CPanel.
  
  
  
• The problem with my server yesterday was hardware, not software - an SSD failure. It's not dead but ZFS automatically disabled it due to errors, which broke all the sites hosted there.
  
  So I had backups from the previous day, and I now have backups from the moment it failed. If anyone lost anything important I can get it back.
  
  

• This dock turns your Mac Mini into a mini Mac. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It drops over and plugs into the Mac Mini, but looks like a miniature version of the original Macintosh from 1984, or at least the subsequent "platinum"-coloured model from 1986. It has a 5" 1280x720 colour screen, where the original had a 9" 512x342 monochrome screen.
  
  It also has four USB-A ports, three USB-C ports (though that includes the one that connects to the Mac), HDMI, SD and microSD slots, and an M.2 2280 slot.
  
  $170 for a USB-C model (presumably 10Gbit) and $340 for a Thunderbolt 5 model which is theoretically 80Gbit.
  
  
  
• Are big tech companies laying off waves of workers and replacing them with AI? (Yahoo)
  
  Because if so, why are staffing levels still at the highwater mark set in 2022 during the pandemic?
  
  
  
• How to make an RTX 5090 76% faster with an RTX 5060. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Step One: Play Batman: Arkham Asylum, a game from 2009 using a 32-bit implementation of PhysX.
  
  That's it, really.
  
  
  
• NetHack 5.0 is out. (Nethack)
  
  Haven't played that game in years.
  
  
  
• QNAP's latest NAS pairs a Zen 2 Epyc from six years ago with Nvidia's latest 96GB RTX Pro 6000. (WCCFTech)
  
  But why?
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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