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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

3rd summit in the books 💚

Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush & son of another President Bush, just posted that he voted for @JamesTalarico. Neil still lives in the same neighborhood as father did for decades here in Houston.

keeping footage of billy in watching 2x speed of ai-narrated intro bio videos before he pitches investors on theranos 2.0 was just genius. founderslop on full display

Lost sleep over this 👇👇👇

Truly, the fastest 2:54 I’ve ever watched. Would have watched 5 hours.

I tell ya what, That boy Paxton ain’t right.

she’s becoming a noble gas

And if it worked for them, it would probably also work for spouses who grocery shop, but don’t cook…

Has anyone come up with a way to use one of the consumer agents to intercept questions and replacement suggestions from Instacart shoppers? Most of the time that I place an order it’s because I am tied up, and I often can’t keep up with the back-and-forth most of the questions boil down to an understanding of true substitutions, as well as personal preference, so it feels like a good fit…

Imagine trying to explain this to someone with a life

Talked primarily about AI with the homies @ftrain and @richziade on the @aboard Podcast. But I’m glad we also took the time to share important colorectal health tips.

Runway is such a perfect metaphor: it's great to have more distance, but it doesn't matter if your startup never reaches takeoff speed.

I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.

At @MeckaAI, we spend a ton of calories on building models and human-in-the-loop workflows to achieve capabilities frontier models can't accomplish today. Dense captioning is one of these incredibly hard problems. The talented and sharp Concept team (@tkkong , @philhchen ) did a deep analysis on frontier model performance compared to our internal Mecka model - read more below!

Pretty surprised at how wrong the pronunciations are for Hawaiian street names in Google Maps. How, in 2026, can this be? Kaanapali does not sound like Napoli or Annapolis…

New spirit animal dropped

Spending Saturday evening with my family, watching the sun set in Hawaii, regaling them with the greatest hits of the Bennigan’s menu in the 90s. Did humanity peak with the Turkey O’Toole? Discuss.

Well, longhorn kiddos — I recommend y’all just head on back to Austin. Nothing good for you in Dallas tonight ✌️ 🤘

My regular UX complaint for college football