• There are at least 884,000 websites running an unsupported version of PHP - one for which there is no patch for the new lethal vulnerabilities.  (Notebook Check)
  
  The real number is probably closer to 20 million.
  
  
  
• How did the PHP foundation - the organisation responsible for maintaining PHP, a language powering an estimated 37.7 million websites - let things get so bad?  They have one full-time staff member.  (Reuters)
  
  Yep, that'll do it.

• Wolves descend on a Finnish village as Google clear-fells 1300 acres of forest including Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother's cottage.  (Futurism)
  
  There are reasons I'm doubting this story, including the inclusion of this:

  In West Virginia, a grove of critically endangered Chestnut trees is under threat of being bulldozed to make way for a new Anthropic hyperscale facility.

  That claim has already been debunked; the construction is miles away from the grove of trees.
  
  
  
• The anti-AI writing police are everywhere.  What are they looking for?  (CNN)
  
  AI writing.
  
  Which leftist writers profess to hate even as they latch onto it.
  
  Leading to the usual rounds of autophagy and the media - CNN here - pissing on our legs and telling us it's raining.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, it's raining again.  And worse.  I brought my seedlings in under cover given the threat of a storm, and it arrived on schedule with some middling-sized hail.
  
  Went to the garden center on the edge of town on the weekend looking for some more of the green bottlebrushes, only to find the shelf empty.  So I went online and found what I wanted.  And pink and purple as well.  Delivered they cost nearly three times as much, but this way I can get what I want and not just what is in stock this week in my small country town.
  
  
  
• Nvidia is thinking of charging $2000 per GPU in annual license fees for running its AI software, an estimated $10 billion per year.  (Notebook Check)
  
  What's that, Lassie?  Someone just rebuilt our AI software using our AI software in a cave with a box of scraps?
  
  
  
• Analysts say that AI is delivering no return on investment to 493 companies in the S&P 500.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The remaining seven are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla.

Posted by: Frank at Monday, October 26 2026 05:51 PM (tSpjU)

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