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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.

imo this is the single most important line in the Wiz blog on the PHP hack - "As AI reduces the effort needed to develop and adapt complex exploits, vulnerabilities that once seemed impractical to exploit become viable targets." code has always been slop-prone. but pre-ai, there were too many details to brute force and track. its crazy how much of the internet runs on "security through obscurity" (which is never real security) but now the cost of brute-force attacks has gone to 0 thanks to ai, we're going through a phase where 20 years of cascading vulnerabilities can all explode to the surface that @fiveoutofnine describes. purely fixing the bugs isn't a sustainable solution, as ai slop will likely introduce a variety of new ones. sustainable solutions need to be structural - i think we'll see much more formal verification + new languages that follow Rust/TypeScript's success in eradicating error categories from better code design from the get go.

Any developer affected let’s work with moi so you will hand your agent based on what your agent needs to perform, once your work is done you can revoke. Trust is with you. Trust me bro doesn’t works.

Tomorrow, 6:30 PM IST: Anantha Krishnan and Piyush Maheshwari of @MOI_Tech with @prashant__sha on giving AI agents real authority, and who answers when they use it. What should we ask them? Reply here. xitter.cf/i/spaces/1yJAPwWNWabGb

I talked to builders, investors, developers and locals over the last two weeks in SF. A few observations: 1. Fundraising has become increasingly more binary. Investors want to see either exceptional growth or a team tackling something really really hard. The days of raising on an "AI for X" pitch alone seem to be done. 2. Some of the best developers barely look at code anymore. They write spec documents, orchestrate multiple coding agents, and spend their time reviewing the outcomes rather than the implementation itself. The bottleneck is shifting from generating code to verifying correctness, and security. 3. Agent security is becoming a serious priority. I attended several security events. CISOs at larger companies are actively thinking about what happens when AI agents have access to sensitive data, systems, and permissions. 4. Robotics was an incredibly hot topic last quarter. Companies are still raising significant capital, but investors seem increasingly skeptical about timelines, commercialisation, and whether the returns will justify the investment. 5. Interestingly, many investors I spoke to still want crypto exposure in their portfolios. My impression is that a strong crypto business with real traction might have an easier fundraising story than yet another undifferentiated AI application. 6. Everyone wants to feed the "AI gods." Ask people what they would build today, and you'll hear similar answers: data, compute, energy, model infrastructure. The consensus seems to be that the biggest opportunities are in supplying the bottlenecks of AI development. 7. The non-tech locals have a very different perspective on AI. In my conversations, roughly 8 out of 10 locals I asked were unhappy about SF becoming the center of the AI industry. 8. Waymo is everywhere! Autonomous vehicles are definitely making transportation safer and more convenient. But, they are definitely widening the social distance between people who can afford new technology and those who can't. Uber rides were one of those rare opportunities to meet and talk to people from completely different backgrounds.

I was wrong. Agents don't need crypto. It's us humans who do. I break down what the industry got wrong in my @token2049 talk, Agents + Crypto: What's Real and What's Cope 👇