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The Hacker News

Autonomous AI Tool Finds 2-Year-Old RCE Flaw in Redis (CVE-2026-23479)

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases. Tracked as CVE-2026-23479, the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years.

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SANS Internet Storm Center

Continuing Scans for swagger.json, (Wed, Jun 3rd)

Enterprise applications often still use complex standards like SOAP for web services. The big advantage of SOAP is its tight and extensive standards, which enable interoperability across an enterprise governed by web services. The disadvantage of SOAP: First, while it is de facto usually used over HTTP, it does not leverage HTTP, leading to unnecessary complexity. Secondly, kids don&#;x26;#;39;t RTFM, and developers these days tend not to appreciate the art of careful system design; they rather

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GitHub Changelog

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, May releases

VS Code continues with weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.120 through v1.123, the releases we shipped throughout May and early June 2026. In May, we made the Agents… The post GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, May releases appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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CSS-Tricks

@custom-media

The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries. @custom-media originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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CSS-Tricks

@function

The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can accept arguments, contain complex logic, and return values based on that logic. @function originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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