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tl;dr tillräckligt många viktiga aktörer agerade snabbt och resolut, inga stora kända problem ännu.
Lite längre: Det var ganska svårt att nyttja exploiten plus att många varit väldigt bra på att uppdatera med den fix som kom snabbt plus centrala uppdateringar för många (särskilt wordpress som utgör omkring 40% av webben) plus att cloudflare agerade innan fixen kom (har runt 25% av trafiken) => Internet lever.
Men den här typen av säkerhetsutmaningar kommer vi få leva med ett tag, tills ”vi” fått lika bra ordning på försvaret som de potentiella attackerna är.
P(doom) är inte 1 ännu.
Michael Jackson 🟠 retweeted
Cool tweet. And yet, speaking of crucial infrastructure, I am somehow myself financing a sustainability effort for Curl. X pays zero, Meta pays zero, Apple pays zero, OpenAI pays zero, Alphabet pays zero, Anthropic pays zero, Tesla pays zero, SpaceX pays zero.
Curl has received some 1,030 Curl vulnerability reports since it started a Hackerone project in 2019. A third of those reports were submitted in 2026. You don’t want the team to use AI to address them.
But I guess it’s cool to just trust the random guy running it from his villa in Huddinge, Sweden (Daniel Stenberg, right) and the other random guy from Sollentuna, Sweden (that would be me, left) picking up the bill for some more developers to cope with the increased load, and to ensure redundancy.
I am working on some things to ensure a sustainable future for the 20 billion active installations of curl through our new outfit Curlify, because we need to ensure that this software continues to run smoothly.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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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🇱🇺🇫🇷 L'homme de 25 ans a participé au pillage d'une boutique Sandro, à Metz, samedi. Sa société de BTP est basée à Rodange.
lessentiel.lu/fr/story/a-met…
Looks like it’s a great strategy to keep an American locked up in your cellar. You never know when you might need him.
Holding people to account is worth every penny of the license fee
There’s something relaxing about burning all the company allowance of tokens before lunchtime on Monday.
I started my working life assembling server racks. After decades of career development …. Assembling server racks at home. #AICluster #decentralisedcompute
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Nailed it!
Tucker Putinovich Carlson “verged on defending Hitler” is the polite British way of saying that a demagogue who justifies putin’s attempted genocide in Ukraine has little trouble finding excuses for Hitler, too.
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One year after the Copenhagen Pledge, European business leaders urge policymakers to turn competitiveness ambitions into action. Reducing regulatory burdens, strengthening the Single Market, improving access to capital and energy.
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TAEX is delighted to announce the opening of its first permanent gallery in Mareterra, Monaco 🌊
The opening marks a new chapter in TAEX’s development, establishing a permanent space for a programme that brings together internationally recognised artists whose practices engage with the defining questions of contemporary culture.
TAEX Gallery Monaco will open on October 9, 2026, with Testing Ground, a solo exhibition by Kevin Abosch @kevinabosch, on view through the end of November.
Testing Ground brings together previously unseen works from Abosch’s latest body of synthetic photography, created specifically for TAEX Gallery Monaco, alongside works from ETHICAL WORK, first presented by TAEX at Paris Photo in 2025, and the exceptionally rare Potato #345 (2010).
🗓Vernissage: October 8, 2026, 7–10:30 pm
Public opening: October 9–November 30, 2026
Opening hours: 11 am–7 pm; closed on Mondays
📍Location:
TAEX Gallery Monaco
Mareterra, 12 Quai du Petit Portier
MC 98000 Monaco
#taex #taexmonaco #digitalart
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🚨🚨Breaking News 🚨🚨 the future of markets is being forged @blockchain and @NYSE announce partnership to explore selling tokenized stocks. Let’s go! reuters.com/legal/government…
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The future is on chain and on @blockchain
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NEAR is delivering on promises crypto made at the beginning: assets anyone can move privately, securely, instantly.
Mert drawing parallels between BTC & ZEC and NEAR & ETH
"Analogies are always imperfect, but I think that's roughly correct. For example, we led the listing of ZEC on Solana, via NEAR. If you can kind of say that $ZEC is an alternative to $BTC, and some people will say it's a better BTC, perhaps you can just say it's different with different trade offs for different people."
"You can also make the same argument that $NEAR is sort of what $ETH aimed at being. If you remember the sharding roadmap, where ETH wished to scale via sharding, well, who actually did that? NEAR did."
"And then what about this being the hub where you connect different chains? Well, NEAR is demonstrably doing that right now, via NEAR Intents. And so there's kind of two parallels to both BTC and ETH."
Michael Jackson 🟠 retweeted
Eight years ago today.
Rootstock was already talking about merged mining as a core part of its security model.
Fast forward to 2026:
83.96% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate is securing Rootstock through merged mining.
RSK blockchain is secured by merged-mining, which means that we can achieve the same security as Bitcoin in terms of double-spend prevention and settlement finality #RskTips
This is @Concordium power. LFG
Hyperliquid preparing to launch permissioned markets
Paving for the way into the US 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
$HYPE is undervalued
