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Our Golden Docker Image Was Patched for Three Weeks Before Anyone Actually Ran It

A critical OpenSSL CVE dropped on a Tuesday, and our platform team did exactly what they were supposed to do: they patched the org's golden base image and pushed a new version by Wednesday morning. The security dashboard turned green. Leadership got an email saying the fleet was patched. Then, almost three weeks later, a routine penetration test against one of our customer-facing services flagged the exact same vulnerability in a container that had been running, untouched, since before the patch existed. The image had been fixed. The thing actually serving traffic hadn't.

Nobody had lied on that dashboard. The golden image really was patched the day it said it was. The dashboard never tracked the gap between an image existing and the team's actual rebuilding and redeploying efforts, which became the real attack surface.

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Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July

Android has always let people install apps from outside Google’s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a California court it is ready to begin on Wednesday 22 July, The Verge reported. The move came

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Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity

The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to

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Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry

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Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs

Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabilities. That more than tripled June’

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Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July

Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity

Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs