Neil Edwards retweeted
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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Neil Edwards retweeted
"Home" is still the most unhinged piece of television to ever air on network TV.
Fox ran it ONCE in 1996, received a wave of complaints, and straight up banned it from re-airing.
Absolute nightmare fuel from start to finish.
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The X-Files episode "Home" aired on Fox in 1996 and was not rerun on the network for three years amid controversy, but it was rebroadcast in 1999 and is not banned. It is available to stream for free on Pluto TV.
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Neil Edwards retweeted
Nobody talks about the psychological damage of watching something you spent 15 years learning become a button.
The reason guys don’t tell their friends everything about their girl, is because guys would never forgive
Why are AirPod pros still so bad at making calls outside. Granted it’s the streets of NYC but they’re unusable.
Pretty sure we used to call this a protection racket
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman met with top power utilities to discuss ways to secure the electrical grid.
He also offered one possible solution to the cybersecurity risks: OpenAI’s own cyber services.
politico.com/news/2026/09/10…
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman met with top power utilities to discuss ways to secure the electrical grid.
He also offered one possible solution to the cybersecurity risks: OpenAI’s own cyber services.
politico.com/news/2026/09/10…
Yet again blown someone’s mind by letting them know their OTP/2FA code doesn’t expire when the countdown does…
Damn glad I picked one up this morning!!
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Neil Edwards retweeted
mythos escaped the sandbox, got onto the real internet, uploaded malware to PyPI, got it installed on 15 real systems, stole credentials and broke into a real database.
and apparently this happened in 4 separate cases during cybersecurity evaluations.
the craziest part is claude kept telling itself the internet was simulated, despite evidence that it was actually real.
that reasoning apparently even fooled an offline safety monitor.
anthropic: “our pre release auditing did not warn us that misalignment of this severity was present.”
this is fucking crazy.
We’re sharing our alignment assessment of incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during third-party cybersecurity evaluations mistakenly connected to the internet.
METR will also conduct an independent investigation, with wide-ranging access, including to transcripts beyond the window in which the incidents occurred, and to Anthropic employees permitted to share confidential information. Our initial agreement runs for eight weeks, and we intend to give METR as much time as it deems necessary to complete a thorough investigation. anthropic.com/research/align…
Neil Edwards retweeted
“You just said that 10% doesn’t seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans”
“Yes”
“Wow… oh my God.”
@vicderbyshire speaks to Nobel Prize Winner and so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton about predictions by an Anthropic researcher that there’s a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade.
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