For 33 hours, traffic to Softaculous—the web application installer used by millions of cPanel/Plesk hosting providers—was silently redirected via a BGP hijack attack. A major exposure window for a critical infrastructure in global web hosting.
Sep 2, 2026 15 3
GitHub has published its analysis of the outage on August 17, 2026, and outlines the planned work to prevent a recurrence. A rare post-mortem in terms of transparency for a critical platform in the global dev ecosystem.
Aug 20, 2026 6 2
An internal leaked memo reveals that the next Xbox (codename Helix) aims for full backward compatibility—original Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, including discs. And this week, an Xbox outage made legitimately purchased physical games unreadable.
Aug 4, 2026 23 3
