Thursday, October 22
Daily News Stuff 22 October 2026
PHPeed Edition
PHPeed Edition
Top Story
- So PHP did a thing. (Bleeping Computer)
Patches are out now if you're on a recent version. If you're not on a recent version, tough. Thanks, PHP.
- There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability. (Elias Taylor)
Do not take advice from random websites. This does not appear to be true.
Tech News
- The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupial species though to have been extinct for thousands of years, have been discovered in New Guinea. (BBC)
Always in the last place you look.
- The creator of OpenClaw says he racked up $10 million in token charges last month. (The Register)
He works for OpenAI now, so he didn't pay for it.
Did he generate $10 million worth of value, though? I doubt it.
- Electronic Arts finally drove a stake through the chest of the shambling corpse of BioWare. (WCCFTech)
The company's last unreservedly good game came out in 2010.
- Micron is vagueposting. (WCCFTech)
Promising new types of memory soon. Not for you though.
- Microsoft's next generation Xbox, expected in 2028, is also expected to cost between $1200 and $1800. (Ars Technica)
Call it a kiwi because that's never gonna fly.
- I was looking to see if I could buy a pink bottlebrush, and then the red bottlebrushes I planted last year flowered and I realised that I already had one - the one I planted first, early last year, and thought was red was clearly pink when you see them side-by-side.
Musical Interlude
Anime is Saga of Tanya the Perfectly Nice Girl Once You Get to Know Her. Song is Trouble by Neon Jungle.
Disclaimer: I don't know, I've only ever killed communists.
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Allegedly, according to some HN comments (that are likely to be correct but I haven't verified them), you can mitigate a large part of the issue by blocking multipart uploads. So people running older PHP versions might have something they can do.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 22 2026 07:28 PM (z5irX)
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I never played Star Wars: The Old Republic, but it came out in December 2011 in North America and Europe (March 2012 in AU) and many people seemed to think it was quite good. You're quite right about Mass Effect 3, though, and let's not even mention Andromeda. I don't know when they fired their writers, but going from that one plot twist in Jade Empire to ... well, whatever was going on with Andromeda's plot ... Well. The writing was on the wall.
Actually, it was already on the wall when they couldn't pull off a satisfying ending to Mass Effect 3. And there was one staring them in the face the whole time: the Geth reconcile with the Quarians thanks to Shephard's actions, proving the Reapers wrong about organic life not being able to coexist with inorganic, and then the Geth use the data they got from the Reapers to expose a vulnerability in the Reapers. One that no previous cycle had managed to find, because no previous cycle had ever created an AI race, had them coopted by the Reapers, and then decided to trust them anyway when they came back and said "We're on organic life's side and going to help you take down our former masters". Paragon Shepherd and his/her idealism saves the galaxy. (OR Renegade Shepherd says "I don't trust them but what choice do we have, it's not like we'll be any deader if they betray us" and makes the pragmatic choice to trust them anyway, and saves the galaxy with pragmatism).
I came up with that in five minutes. Are you telling me nobody at Bioware came up with that idea? I don't believe it. What's much more likely is that the higher-ups didn't like the idea, and decided to greenlight their preferred idea instead, because they have no ability to recognize good writing. Certainly no game since Mass Effect 3 has had good writing.
Actually, it was already on the wall when they couldn't pull off a satisfying ending to Mass Effect 3. And there was one staring them in the face the whole time: the Geth reconcile with the Quarians thanks to Shephard's actions, proving the Reapers wrong about organic life not being able to coexist with inorganic, and then the Geth use the data they got from the Reapers to expose a vulnerability in the Reapers. One that no previous cycle had managed to find, because no previous cycle had ever created an AI race, had them coopted by the Reapers, and then decided to trust them anyway when they came back and said "We're on organic life's side and going to help you take down our former masters". Paragon Shepherd and his/her idealism saves the galaxy. (OR Renegade Shepherd says "I don't trust them but what choice do we have, it's not like we'll be any deader if they betray us" and makes the pragmatic choice to trust them anyway, and saves the galaxy with pragmatism).
I came up with that in five minutes. Are you telling me nobody at Bioware came up with that idea? I don't believe it. What's much more likely is that the higher-ups didn't like the idea, and decided to greenlight their preferred idea instead, because they have no ability to recognize good writing. Certainly no game since Mass Effect 3 has had good writing.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 22 2026 07:38 PM (z5irX)
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It seems I don't know how I want to spell Shephard/Shepherd. And I spelled it wrong each time anyway, because it was actually spelled Shepard in the game.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 22 2026 07:40 PM (z5irX)
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I can't currently find the link (X search...), but someone has apparently backported the PHP fixes to everything since 5.6.
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