Web engineer, mostly frontend, but nothing is out of scope these days. Available for hire 🫡 Still exploring the shadow realms. Resident of Taiwan 🧋
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Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
New: Proton, the company behind ProtonMail, emailed staff to say it will be 're-interviewing' workers about how they use AI. The implication is, if you're not using AI, or won't learn, you may lose your job. “These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.
404media.co/proton-to-re-int…
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
One problem with much of the western left on Taiwan is that they consistently confuse (either intentionally or due to ignorance) two issues: what Taiwan's status should be and how Taiwan/allies should approach that status to best maintain Taiwan's safety given China's polices
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
BREAKING:Bradford has fled the Tronto mainland following its fall to socialist Olivia Chow. Sources say he will establish a new govt on the Toronto Islands with the goal of eventually reclaiming the entire city. Chow has promised to purge all remaining Fordmintang on the mainland
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
Talked to @CurtisSliwa today at the bodega he said, “I used to debate who was better Trotsky or Stalin, I’m a Trotsky guy”
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
A Microsoft AI scientist chose to live in a tiny room in San Francisco’s Chinatown for less than $1,000 a month.
@annakook gives us a rare look inside a single-room occupancy building, where residents have private rooms but share kitchens and bathrooms.
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex 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.
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
PHP 8.5.12 released - 90 fixes in 29 components, including security fixes (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619).
Changelog + downloads: php-net.pro/news/php-8-5-12-…
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
皆様に、今夜に対応して頂きたい大至急のお願いです。
多くのウェブサイトで使用されているPHPに関し、PHPのセキュリティチームが、重大な２件の脆弱性に関する注意喚起を行っています。
公開しているウェブサイトでPHPを使用しているか確認し、今夜、10月21日午後11時（日本時間）に公開される修正パッチについて、可及的速やかに適用できるよう準備をお願いします。
修正パッチを速やかに適用することが困難な場合は、例えばウェブサイト等を一時的に停止させることも、リスクを低減させるための有効策の一つと考えられます。
国家サイバー統括室のXアカウントでも関係する情報を発信していますので、そちらも参考にして下さい。
国家サイバー統括室(注意・警戒情報)（@cyber_forecast） / X
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
PHP changes are live. Start patching. php.net/archive/2026.php#202…
Huge thanks to coordinated work by @ThePHPF!
PHP sites behind Cloudflare already have an initial set of WAF rules deployed for the known exploit vectors in these vulnerabilities. The rules are available to all customers, including free.
We are seeing early attacks emerging and are updating mitigations as new vectors show up.
This is a STOPGAP only. Patch as soon as @ThePHPF releases the update at 14:00 UTC today.
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
if this affects the default installation of PHP
We are fucked up
CVE-2026-109618
CVE-2026-109619
PHP RCEs with a CVSS score of 10.0 ☠️
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex 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.
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
Major differences in the potential paths for Super Typhoon CHAMPI in the western Pacific.
The new Google AI models spare Taiwan a direct hit from a major storm, and hook the weakening system up towards Japan next weekend. The traditional physics based models, insist on a destructive storm square onto Taiwan later this week. Will be interesting does the AI modeling win again... has shown great promise in the long term steering of already established strong tropical systems.
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engineers used to hate context switching and now that's all engineering is
Xander ✺ Spectral Codex retweeted
Does this really reflect well on Taiwan? Deporting Chinese students over videos that could have been meant in jest? It's good to see that some, including in the DPP, view it as overstepping bounds, but even so
focustaiwan.tw/politics/2026…
