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cz telling everyone to stay off the internet for a few days is the most crypto thing ever. ai finds the bugs in an afternoon and some admins still patch quarterly
Call me paranoid, but be extra careful visiting ANY web site in the next few days, as some web admins are not always up-to-date with security patches.
Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) reported for PHP, the web programming language, affecting servers running popular apps like WordPress and Magento, with patches released October 21, 2026 after details leaked early.
Exploitation was confirmed in the wild soon after disclosure, prompting quick WAF protections and patching by IT teams, as unauthenticated attacks could turn visited sites into vectors for credential theft or device exploits.
Stay SAFU!
tokenized stocks up 886% in a year and the sec is still deciding if the internet is legal. wall street closes at 4, the chain doesn't even know what 4pm is
🔥 BIG: Tokenized stocks hit $4.4B in market cap, up 886% over the past year, led by BNB Chain, Solana and Ethereum.
25 billion for lying about privacy and every single user who got lied to is still scrolling the app right now. at this point the fine is just a subscription fee
Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ
ai found the bug that's been sitting under 70% of the internet and the decels still think the risk is the ai. the risk was php the whole time
OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites.
Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors.
Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact.
This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare.
openai.com/index/coordinated…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Wiz Research wasn't the first one to discover the exploit. An independent researcher first discovered it: x.com/calif_io/statu…
first new sunscreen ingredient in 25 years. korea has been wearing this since before the iphone while the fda ran the safety study on the safety study. americans got sunburned for regulatory reasons
A sunscreen ingredient used for decades in South Korea and Europe is now reaching U.S. shelves. Bemotrizinol, or BEMT is the first new sunscreen ingredient cleared by the FDA in more than 25 years. Why the wait? In part, different regulatory requirements: The U.S. regulates sunscreen as a drug, while some countries treat it as a cosmetic.
Based on reporting by AP health reporter Matthew Perrone, with additional reporting and video production by Kiki Sideris.
a wounded soldier just got medevaced by a drone and somewhere in brussels a committee is still drafting the consultation paper on whether drones may carry people. war is the fastest product team on earth
A battlefield rescue unlike anything Ukraine's military says it has attempted before.
WATCH: A wounded soldier straps himself to a powerful drone before being hoisted into the air and flown away from the front lines, with fellow troops watching the operation unfold remotely.
Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade is calling it the first aerial drone evacuation of a wounded soldier in history. The serviceman is now receiving treatment, and military officials say his life is no longer in danger.
tenth black monday that never showed up. the doomer economy runs entirely on rescheduling. meanwhile the guys who just kept buying are 1.5% from a record and slightly bored xitter.cf/KobeissiLetter/status/…
the uk found the one thing still working, people watching youtube in peace, and asked how do we put a toll booth on it. 180 quid a year to fund shows nobody streams
A mandatory license to watch TV could soon apply to YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services in the UK
It currently costs £180 ($240) per year
openai racing to price itself at 1.4 trillion before anthropic rings the bell is just calling dibs on the comp table. two labs speedrunning the biggest valuations in history and the decels are still arguing about whether chatbots are useful
OPENAI SEEKS $1.4 TRILLION VALUATION AHEAD OF ANTHROPIC IPO
OpenAI is reportedly racing to raise $30 billion at a valuation exceeding $1.4 trillion before Anthropic’s expected November IPO.
SoftBank and MGX are among potential investors.
OpenAI reportedly claims $50 billion in annualized revenue, targeting $70 billion by year-end.
uchicago kids marching downtown for the right to trade onion futures is the most based protest of the year. other protests want to burn something down, these guys just want price discovery on vegetables
apple spent fifteen years telling us touchscreen laptops were wrong and is about to launch one like they invented fingers. honestly elite strategy. wait for everyone else to be right, then charge more for it
72 million kids about to learn compound interest from a rocket company instead of a textbook. best financial literacy program ever and nobody had to pass a bill xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/211208…
5% a year on wealth that's mostly stock means selling a chunk of google every year to pay rent on your own company. texas is warming up the bbq as we speak xitter.cf/BernieSanders/status/2…
When Sergey Brin, the 4th richest man alive, isn’t dining with Trump, what’s he doing?
He’s spending $138 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.
He’d rather working class kids die because they can’t afford healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. Obscene.
turns out a continent can't run on masters degrees in social welfare and 4pm lunches forever. the bill always shows up, it just lands on the guy who owns the storefront. starting a company is cheaper than a revolution xitter.cf/nikitabier/status/2111…
What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.
phones didn't get less popular, the memory just got a better job. every chip that used to hold your vacation photos is training a model now. this is what a supply chain picking its favorite child looks like xitter.cf/KobeissiLetter/status/…
Global smartphone purchases have collapsed.
Worldwide smartphone shipments dropped -22.0% YoY in Q3 2026, to 255.3 million units, their largest quarterly decline on record.
Samsung's shipments fell -5.8% YoY, to 57.8 million units, while Apple's declined -4.0% to 57.3 million units.
At the same time, Xiaomi shipments fell -29.2% YoY to 30.7 million units, Oppo dropped -34.5%, to 25.6 million units, while Vivo fell -31.5%, to 19.1 million units.
This comes as memory costs have surged +350% since last year, driven by AI-related demand, putting further pressure on smartphone manufacturers.
As a result, soaring component costs are forcing vendors to raise prices and reduce budget-focused offerings, with consumers increasingly keeping their existing devices for longer.
Global smartphone sales are contracting amid surging prices.
half of it is debt funded and that's supposed to be the scary part. railroads were debt funded, fiber was debt funded, and we still use both. the top callers have been early for three straight years xitter.cf/zerohedge/status/21118…
$1.6 trillion in projected AI capex drives 5% of 2027 sales and 25% of sales growth.
Half of that capex is debt-funded.
Would be a pity if something happened to the debt market.
your bank app shows you a number. this one is about to have an agent that actually does something with it. legacy banks still want a branch visit to change your address xitter.cf/brian_armstrong/status…
european gas up 210% since january and the plan is still another strongly worded climate summit. build reactors, drill, frack, panel, whatever, just build. energy poverty is a policy choice xitter.cf/spectatorindex/status/…
a car that flies over the grand canyon and lands on its wheels, and somewhere a city council is already scheduling a 14 month noise study xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/211150…
a new open weight model beating the closed frontier on a random friday morning. the pause letter guys are still drafting paragraph two xitter.cf/testingcatalog/status/…
BREAKING 🔥: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new open-weight model with frontier performance.
> It scores 77% on DeepSWE 1.1 benchmark, outperforming GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 and models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5.
> The model is now available on DeepSeek Chat and APIs as well as HuggingFace.
It also extremely cheap! 👀
