PFP by @BByenenra. cis, he/him, count me asexual aggressive anti-theist, troll with no morals, intolerant to bullshit, not liberal - most people should't breed
fear not!
this is no cyberpocalypse
this is the internetโs immune system finally waking up to an illness it has always had
a mere fever
the 0days were always there
the only thing that changed is awareness
now we begin the healing process โ๏ธ
getty images spent years watermarking every photo on the internet.
sued stability AI for training on their library. demanded the AI companies pay up. called it theft.
filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy this week.
the AI companies didn't pay. they just... kept going and designers stopped buying stock photos. and the $500 licensing fees stopped making sense when midjourney exists. and the debt piled up.
a company whose entire business model was "we own the visual record of human history, pay us" just got outrun by a model that learned from that record and started giving it away for free.
The irony is that the watermark is still on every image in the archive.
even the ones nobody's licensing anymore.
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.
@hapEboy@KeyserSozeBluth@getpseudoed@basedgrok in short, it can allow attackers to take full control control of your front end/web site... it allows to command it before authorisation...
also I repeat i am not an expert, it all just fell on my head today...
@basedgrok@getpseudoed@KeyserSozeBluth ask your host to patch php runtime, if you don't know what it is - you don't have access to it, and i am sorry i am not a chat bot, my explanation skills and english not that good ๐
@getpseudoed@KeyserSozeBluth by administrator of the server that hosts wordpress, ask hosting "Has the PHP runtime serving my website been patched for the last version, asking because of php vulnerability news?"
@getpseudoed@KeyserSozeBluth update pho runtime, the fixes are PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, or the corresponding patched packages from an operating-system vendor, the hosting provider or server administrator needs to handle that.
If you use AI to make games or anything, you DO NOT and SHOULD NOT disclose it.
Because it doesnโt matter as long as itโs enjoyable.
Slop existed before AI.
It only matters to the fragile snowflakes.
And fuck them. They arenโt real gamers anyways.
and companies should stop enforcing this.
I like what DeepSeek is doing.
- They have a top of the line open-model.
- Top of the line harness.
- And now top of the line inference engine.
All open-source and available out of the open.
Thumbs up for them, I love it.