Palo Alto, Cisco and Ivanti all patch actively exploited edge zero-days
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IT & infrastructure
Operational news was dominated by Microsoft update regressions affecting VPN and Remote Desktop. Hardware and networking items covered optical modules, rack emulation and cable resilience.
What happened
Microsoft confirmed recent Windows updates can block non-admin Remote Desktop connections when Administrator protection is enabled. BleepingComputer ↗
Microsoft fixed a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection failures after the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. BleepingComputer ↗
Cisco and Nvidia are collaborating on USFP, a pluggable optical module targeting 12.8 Tbps. The Register ↗
Cloudflare detailed debugging a rare protocol caching bug in Hyperdrive MySQL that caused a 0.001% result error rate. Cloudflare Blog ↗
Oxide Computer published a post on Virtual Oxide Labs, an emulation of a full Oxide rack. Hacker News (front page) ↗
An APNIC blog post examines the resilience of submarine internet cables. Hacker News (front page) ↗
At Linux Plumbers 2026, Mathieu Desnoyers discussed barriers to merging the LTTng tracer with mainline kernel tracing efforts. LWN.net ↗
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Oxide Computer published a blog post on Virtual Oxide Labs, an emulation of a full Oxide rack.
Hacker News (front page)oxidevirtualizationdatacenterFeed excerpt
Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/voxel-labs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092423 Points: 29 # Comments: 2
APNIC blog post examines the resilience of submarine internet cables, trending on Hacker News with 71 points.
Hacker News (front page)networkinginfrastructureFeed excerpt
Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089229 Points: 71 # Comments: 9
Microsoft fixed a known issue causing Always On VPN connection failures after the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates.
BleepingComputerwindowsvpnpatchFeed excerpt
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. [...]
At Linux Plumbers 2026, Mathieu Desnoyers discussed barriers to merging the LTTng tracer with mainline kernel tracing efforts.
LWN.netlinuxkerneltracingFeed excerpt
LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over the years and more recently, does not show a path that would allow him to contribute the 21-year-old GPLv2-licensed LTTng tracing framework, or, incrementally, features from it, to the mainline kernel.
Cisco and Nvidia collaborate on USFP, a pluggable optical module targeting 12.8 Tbps.
The RegisternetworkingopticsnvidiaciscoFeed excerpt
If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable
Cloudflare details debugging a rare protocol caching bug in Hyperdrive MySQL, which caused a 0.001% result error rate.
Cloudflare BlogdatabasecloudflaremysqlFeed excerpt
While adding MySQL support to Hyperdrive, we found a subtle protocol bug when caching query results. Here is how we tracked down a 0.001% rate error and made Hyperdrive MySQL generally available.
Microsoft confirms recent Windows updates can block non-admin Remote Desktop connections when Administrator protection is enabled.
BleepingComputerwindowsmicrosoftremote-desktopbugFeed excerpt
Microsoft has confirmed that non-admin users may be unable to connect to devices via Remote Desktop after installing recent Windows updates if the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]