
Dad, Husband, and CTO at @CaylentInc. We're hiring! Formerly @pytorch, @awscloud, @SpaceX, @MongoDB. Opinions are my own.
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Joined March 2008
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Randall Hunt retweeted
1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2002: PHP is dead, learn ASP.net
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: PHP is dead, learn Solidity
2026: The NSA is advising that you turn off PHP
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
Randall Hunt 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.
Randall Hunt retweeted
I was 2 weeks old when Mitch McConnell was elected to the United States Senate.
In 2 weeks, I’ll be replacing him.
Sharing an office (soho) with Foursquare taught me more about tech in a few months than I learned in the following 2 years. It was an NYC institution and everyone who had the chance to experience it is better for it.
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
LFG!
We're open sourcing TorchNeuron. Your existing @PyTorch code runs on Trainium with one config change, and we're contributing upstream to make PyTorch more hardware-agnostic for everyone. aboutamazon.com/news/innovat…
Randall Hunt retweeted
Hearing from the rumor mill: a frontier lab is preparing to release a new model that is better than their old model. In response, other frontier labs are reportedly releasing new models that are better than their old models. One of these will be the best. It may be a surprise.
Randall Hunt retweeted
Replying to @elonmusk
From a high-pressure belly, your fart might propel you upward and forward.
Come to think of it, that's exactly how your car is powered:
A 700 bar, 600 liter, 3 second, noisy fart 😆
[Hopefully without the methane and the smelly compounds]
Dear @flyLAXairport why not have the rental car shuttles in the inner loop the same way the parking shuttles are? This would alleviate significant traffic issues.
The cognito token update status/event was very well written - kudos to whoever at @awscloud prepared that one.


























