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Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Full details of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the core engine of *all* PHP versions will be released tomorrow, October 21st. If your organization has internet facing PHP applications then you need to be ready to patch the minute the update is released or *strongly* consider taking the application offline until you can:
php.net/index.php#2026-10-20…
🚨 PHP warns of two critical vulnerabilities as emergency patches arrive tomorrow
The PHP security team will release updates on October 21 at 14:00 UTC for two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0.
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Security researchers identified the flaws as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and described them as remote code execution vulnerabilities reportedly affecting PHP versions 5 through 8.
PHP has not yet confirmed the affected versions, exploitation requirements or fixed releases.
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The vulnerabilities were reportedly leaked before their planned disclosure. Researchers said they have not observed active exploitation, while PHP warned it may release the patches early if technical details become public or exploitation is detected.
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Administrators should identify PHP installations now and prepare to apply the updates as soon as they become available.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Vibe coding, DIY hardware, and 3D printing will lead to a renaissance in arcade-style gaming.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... ahmath.org/statements
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Même Krugman le dit: « Tout ce que je viens de dire sur la situation des finances publiques françaises vaut également pour les autres grandes économies avancées, à commencer par les États-Unis. Mais la France se distingue, même parmi les pays en difficulté budgétaire, par une caractéristique majeure : son incapacité persistante à regarder en face les réalités de son système de retraite. »
In complete agreement with @paulkrugman's analysis today on France.
1. France is probably too big to save for Europe. the potential for a serious European crisis is real.
2. The problem is pretty straightforward: the pensions are unsustainable, and the extreme right and extreme left are determined to block sensible reforms. This makes any potential bailout politically impossible for its partners.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/w…
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
🤖 Made with AI
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Un calcul qui donne à réfléchir.
La réduction du déficit (que ce soit par une baisse des dépenses ou/et une hausse des recettes) nécessaire pour stabiliser la dette par rapport au PIB : 150 milliards (par exemple, une diminution du deficit de 30 milliards chaque annee par rapport a l'annee precedente, sur un quinquennat).
150 milliards est un chiffre très abstrait. Plus concretement :
Il implique un ajustement de 3 750 euros par an par contribuable (foyer fiscal).
Si l'on exclut les contribuables qui ne paient pas d'impôt aujourd’hui, il implique un ajustement de 7 500 euros par contribuable.
Plus on attend pour procéder à cet ajustement, plus les investisseurs s'inquiètent et plus les taux d'intérêt augmentent.
Une hausse de 1 % des taux d'intérêt implique de trouver 30 milliards supplémentaires, soit 1 500 euros par contribuable.
Des chiffres a garder en tête quand on regarde les programmes et les promesses des candidats a la Présidence.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Holy crap.
Rick and Morty just explained Jev AI to me better than any tech demo could.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
I asked Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab
Here's what it came up with after 1 hour 26 minutes in one shot, $25.66 API cost
lens.lab.sael.net
Move the focus ring and you can see the glass elements shift the sharp plane through the scene
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
One data point in technology making everyone richer: the cost of lighting has decreased by over 1000x.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
GPT-6 Astra has just beaten a standard game of Factorio with enemies enabled after nearly 44 hours in-game time, and 4 days 11 hours on his Codex /goal clock.
At API pricing, logs indicate it would've cost about $4500. It could probably be 50x cheaper by offloading more to Luna and providing some standard scripts for common tasks.
My next test might be Astra coaching Muse Spark or Qwen 3.8 27B into solving a random seed, now that we have successful logs to review.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
super smash bros melee is fully decompiled, this project started in july 2020, so it took over 6 years. the progress was hugely accelerated by llms and finished off with astra. it's a very large game with 3.88mb of compiled code.
github.com/doldecomp/melee
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Asked GPT-6 Astra to create a highly detailed, interactive visualization of a V8 engine
The result is pretty impressive
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
La courbe noire montre la quantité d'énergie solaire qui est absorbée par la Terre. La rouge, c'est le rayonnement infrarouge émis par la Terre vers l'espace. La différence, c'est donc la quantité d'énergie qui chauffe la Terre.
Maxime Thoonsen retweeted
Side note: when we released ARC-AGI-3 in March, and frontier models scored <1% on it, a few Singularitarian poasters took it as a personal insult, and got very worked up about it. They argued the benchmark was fundamentally broken, that it could not even be solved by the smartest humans, that the max reachable score was actually 40%, etc.
We had to deal with a torrent of insults and hate poasts since because we had released an unsaturated benchmark.
As it turns out, the benchmark is perfectly calibrated. It is straightforward for a human to score 100% if they do better than average people – all you need is to use fewer actions than our human baseline (which is not a strong baseline, as we used unfiltered human testers).
And naturally as a result it's also very feasible for AI to score 100% once real progress towards agentic general intelligence has been made. The trajectory of AI from <1% to 100% over the course of 6 months shows that the benchmark was able to snapshot the recent rise of agentic capabilities. And that rise has happened faster than most people expected, including us.
