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.

Today, I'm launching Vene: your AI advocate for healthcare. I used to spend a dozen hours a week managing care for my dad, a disabled veteran, and my mom, who has a severe autoimmune disease. Healthcare was a full-time job for my family. Our goal is to end the burden of care for every family: When you're sick, or caring for someone who is, the hard part is everything after the hospital: the referral that never arrives, the test result nobody calls about, the bill that makes no sense, and everything in between. For my dad, he spent hours on the phone to book an MRI. When he showed up, they told him to his face that insurance had stopped covering it. Then insurance told him to call a list of other offices and get the paperwork sent over himself, and he ended up giving up. That’s why we’ve trained Vene to handle the toughest aspects of healthcare: - Coordinating several specialists at once - Challenging surprise bills and treatment denials - Catching missed follow-ups and care gaps My mom uses Vene to coordinate her primary care and endocrinologist, automatically refill and renew her prescriptions, and manage my little sister’s dental appointments. They were my first users, and now over 5,000 families use Vene, and we're deploying it to another 50,000 patients across provider networks in the US.

BREAKING: Starlink was all over United’s Q3 earnings, with the airline calling it a “meaningful differentiator.” CEO Scott Kirby: “We are winning new long-term, brand-loyal United customers because they are trying us for Starlink…” • More daily Starlink flights than the rest of the U.S. airline industry combined. • Over 5.4 million customers experienced Starlink in September. • 640+ aircraft equipped, adding around 3 per day. • Available on about half of all United flights, including regional flights. • Expected to reach 61% of flights by end-2026, 87% by June 1, 2027, and the full fleet by end-2027. • Customer service scores on Starlink-equipped planes nearly double those with other Wi-Fi. • United’s best-ever third-quarter scores for inflight entertainment and Wi-Fi. • Live NFL and college football on Starlink-enabled seatback screens. • Free for MileagePlus members in every cabin. • Powered an ESPN fantasy football draft livestream from a flight. • Tom’s Guide praised the rollout as a “masterclass in passenger experience.”

Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.

Tesla just introduced a new Robotaxi and safety report website with lots of new info, including a live Robotaxi mile counter. Here’s everything new: • People Injured by Tesla Robotaxis: 0 • Tesla Robotaxi Airbag Deployments: 0 • Pedestrians or Cyclists Hit: 0 Tesla Robotaxi miles by city: • Austin, TX: 2,118,015 • Dallas, TX: 608,130 • Houston, TX: 225,964 • Miami, FL: 46,262 • Orlando, FL: 61,053 • Tampa, FL: 53,117 Other new Robotaxi info: • Miles driven after dark: 862,000 • Miles in rain: 113,000 • Miles in rush hour: 575,000 tesla.com/robotaxi/safety