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AI, the double-edged sword
23 October 2026When the news broke, millions of sysadmins had an apoplectic fit and rushed to update crucial software.
This week it was revealed that the PHP scripting language on which a huge swathe of the web has been built, was fatally flawed.
Those flaws represented a severe security risk to any system running PHP scripts and, if left unpatched, would constitute a massive "kick me" sign that hackers would soon exploit to their advantage.
PHP has been around forever and these vulnerabilities have gone unnoticed all that time so what changed to bring them to the attention of researchers?
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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