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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.
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Incredible talk.
We are so lucky.
It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment! youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY?si=6Fsf…
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“We’re dealing with unprecedented load.”
So are lots of places, you don’t see @awscloud crumpling like an Italian soccer player multiple times a month.
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It's really hard to over-state how crazy @karpathy's /autoresearch idea is.
Tobi hired the best people in the world and paid them millions of dollars to improve liquid performance.
He invented liquid and worked on it for the last 20yrs. Spent weeks thinking about this problem.
An LLM improved it by 53% in less than a day.
Humans can now min-max anything we can measure and loop for just a couple of hundred dollars in tokens. How many bps of GDP per year is this alone worth?
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Workday continues to be the worst software ever sold to anyone. How does anyone use this to run anything?
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Replying to @select_dev
@select_dev @ianwhitestone
#SnowflakeSummit Reunited after a year. Thank you.
with @suzupappa @aladdin_0718 @YangYang_pareto @rakudeji @_haruki0415
This is wild. Give it a try.
Man, sesame’s voice model is absolutely insane. You have to try this demo. GG @brendaniribe
sesame.com/research/crossing…
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One pet peeve – when admin panels paginate 10 items/page.
I’m an expert, please trust me. I can handle 50, maybe even 100.
And don’t give me that dropdown to pick how many. Have an opinion you coward.
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Can we now have this Canada back? youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk0…




























