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I need more of my cyber news updates like this!
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.
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EA IN A NUTSHELL:
KILLED MASS EFFECT.
KILLED DRAGON AGE.
KILLED DEAD SPACE.
KILLED MEDAL OF HONOR.
KILLED NEED FOR SPEED.
KILLED BURNOUT.
KILLED TITANFALL.
KILLED MIRROR’S EDGE.
KILLED ANTHEM.
KILLED SPORE.
KILLED SSX.
KILLED ARMY OF TWO.
KILLED SIMCITY.
KILLED COMMAND & CONQUER.
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows:
- Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking.
- Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results.
So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks.
What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files.
I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks.
What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.
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Sí. Es Assetto Corsa con mil mods realistas y DLSS5
Y sí. La baja resolución ayuda a cómo se ve.
PERO
Es la 1a vez que he dudado tanto si era verdad o no. ES UNA ABSOLUTA LOCURA 💥
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Been playing all weekend, incredible game 😍
Huge congrats to the team at Fuse - a fellow Guildford dev - what an awesome first game 💪
I was lucky enough to work with a bunch of these folks on Burnout Takedown - great to feel those emotions in a game again 😘
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Valtteri Bottas has completed his 350km cycling trip from Sepang to Singapore in time for media day 💪
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I can’t believe we have to say this, but the annihilation of two major American cities — more than 5 million people — is not a “small price to pay” for Trump's illegal war.
Neither are the 19 American troops and 3,000+ Iranians who lost their lives.
Our president is unhinged.
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I’m Gen X. I spent my childhood terrified of quicksand, spontaneous human combustion and the Bermuda Triangle.
Turns out I should’ve been worried about my knees.
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英伟达刚刚放出了一个很有意思的新工具:随意一张图片,就能生成一个可以自由探索的 3D 世界
而且项目还是 100% 开源 🔥
模型已经上线 Hugging Face
UI 代码已经开源到 GitHub
这个名为 Lyra 2.0 的模型,可以把普通图片直接变成可交互的 3D 场景
你不仅可以在里面自由行走、转身探索,甚至还能把机器人放进生成的世界里进行模拟训练
简单来说就是:一张图 → 一个可以走进去的 3D 世界
Guy Ritchie’s Mobland s2 on paramount+ with TommHardy just keeps getting better and better. Imagine a crossover with the also awesome Slow Horses on AppleTV 🙂 Both have perfect theme tunes too that I seldom skip Fontaines DC and Mick Jagger respectively. 🙂
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Wow Nvidia has just released a tool to turn any image into an explorable 3D world
And they made it 100% open source 🔥
- Model available on Hugging Face
- UI code available on GitHub
Lyra 2.0 creates a world you can walk through, turn around in, and even drop a robot into for simulation.
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As a person who has made professional art for over 30 years, let me tell you some hilarious shit.
- I remember when artists freaked the fuck out when photoshop and digitizers came out. Digital art was going to ruin jobs for artists. (It didnt)
- I was there when artists freaked the fuck out when video games made the transition from 2D games to 3D games because making 3D art, was going to ruin "art" in video games and making 3D art wasn't "real" art. (It didnt ruin art and it is real art) **Literally knew people personally that quit making games because they hated the transition to 3D.
The thing with "real" artists, is that artists adapt and make art, regardless of the medium and typically don't give two flying shits about what "other" artists are doing because you should be busy just being you and creating what your heart tells you.
Be it on Canvas
Digital 2D/3D
Side of a building
Macaroni Art
Sculpting
Music
Dance
Sports
... or whatever the NEW thing is that comes along every couple of years or so.
If you create - you are an artist. Period.
You do you, whatever that is and let your soul be happy.
Its nobody else's business what that is. The cool thing about art in any form is that its subjective and if you dont like it - don't participate. There is lots of bad art. Lots of great art and everything inbetween.
Don't like peas, don't eat peas. Easy. No one needs to hear about how much you hate peas. That's your problem.
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Listen to this pompous fucking twat. The same people that have had their boots on the necks of Britons for decades, vilifying them, dismissing them, gaslighting them, STEALING their taxes & now they have the nerve to ask us to fight for a system that abandoned us. Fuck off
News🇬🇧🔥🇷🇺: "Over the next few years we may have to go to war, some of you may die? but this is about doing your DUTY".
Watch as @Jacob_Rees_Mogg goes into new levels of pomposity rarely seen in British politics, since Lord Kitchener pointed at British men and cried "Your country Needs You".
Mogg demands and expects that most white working class Brits go 'over the top' for a King and Government who treat them with sheer contempt.
Under JRM's best friend and fellow bumchum at Eton, Boris Johnson, the UK was intentionally flooded with around 5 million Islamist loving migrants and African former military, blighting the nation for decades to come perhaps forever.
Sir Jacob gushes over King Charles III, who is more interested in the "wisdom of Islam", than speaking out against the planned invasion of our/his Kingdom.
This former Tory MP is laying the table for the UK and Europe being involved in a full-scale war with Russia. He demands that you and your sons head over into the meat grinder to satisfy his sense of "duty".
Going into the slaughterhouse of Ukraine, where perhaps over 1 million white Christian men have died, is not the Falklands, or any form of conflict which threats British sovereignty under the Thomas Aquinas Just War Theory.
The Thomas Aquinas war in his work 'Summa Theologiae', arguing that war is not always a sin if it meets strict moral criteria.
Ukraine is a proxy war for EU expansion and theft, by an institution which has destroyed Europe via 'net-zero, mass immigration and super demonic DEI diktats.
Tell me @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, when will you and yours be popping of into the Zelensky/EU/NATO killing machine to satisfy your deities and quench your thirst for patriotic blood, by a King and government who abandoned indigenous Brits decades ago?
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Do you know when you think you can't love Danny Dyer anymore...you can. The real King of England.
🚨 WATCH: Danny Dyer says he "doesn't know" who Andy Burnham is
"Who is he? Did anyone vote for him? Because I didn't vote for him. I think we've had successive Prime Ministers that are c*nts. End of. Put that on the f*cking BBC" xitter.cf/michaelkeohan/status/2…


























