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SELinux Volume Labels in Kubernetes 1.36: Audit Your Multi-Tenant Storage Before 1.37
Kubernetes 1.37 makes SELinux context mounts the default for eligible volumes. Audit CSI drivers, shared PVCs, and label conflicts before the upgrade leaves a Pod stuck in ContainerCreating.

The .self TLD Bid: What a Human-First Domain Would—and Wouldn't—Change for Self-Hosted Apps
What the proposed .self TLD could change for self-hosted apps, what still requires portable DNS and TLS automation, and the policy questions a public-good registry must answer.

Ripple Takes RLUSD to Four L2s: How Wormhole NTT Avoids the Classic Wrapped-Token Model
Ripple’s RLUSD now spans four Ethereum L2s through Wormhole NTT. See the transfer flow, the controls it preserves, and the risks it does not remove.

Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok Plugins Show Why Deploy-From-Chat Needs an Open Control Plane
Railway’s ChatGPT and Grok plugins point to a host-neutral control-plane design for safely deploying and operating a PaaS from any chat client.

Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor
Porter bills requested CPU and RAM inside your cloud account, but a BYOC cluster still has a fixed cost. A three-way example shows where granular requests help, where hosted tiers win, and how ownership changes the bill.

Platform Engineering 2.0 Has Five Good Ideas—and an Implementation Gap
A practical readiness matrix for turning Platform Engineering 2.0’s AI, agent, FinOps, security, and composability pillars into operating designs a Kubernetes PaaS can verify.

When Can an OP Stack Batcher Reach $0.001 in L1 DA per Transaction?
A worked model of OP Stack blob batching, the utilization threshold for $0.001 in L1 data-availability cost per transaction, and the limits behind that headline.

Private x402 Payments: What Mind Network’s x402z Adds—and What It Doesn’t
Mind Network’s x402z adds FHE-backed confidential value handling to x402 agent payments. See what it can protect, what still leaks, and the controls a production deployment needs.

MCP’s Ecosystem Is Big Enough to Be an Attack Surface: Scope a Deploy-from-Chat Server
A practical permission, approval, and audit design for an MCP deploy server that keeps untrusted tool context from becoming a production action.
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