Sunday, October 25
Daily News Stuff 25 October 2026
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Mothman Edition
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- How did a couple of bugs in one minor programming language that nobody bothers with anymore almost destroy civilisation? (Tech Crunch)
The language Tech Crunch is referring to is PHP, which is literally as old as the web - it first appeared in 1993, the same year as HTML itself, the language that every single web page is written.
Tech Crunch runs on WordPress.
WordPress is written in PHP.
Around 70% of all websites run on software written in PHP, 40% of them on WordPress alone.
Inertia is a hell of a drug.
Tech News
- If you're struggling with modern hardware costs why not take a trip back to the early days of the web yourself with some 1996 PC hardware? (Tom's Hardware)
The example system has 32MB of memory, which even in today's market costs around 40 cents.
- Or if that's a little too retro, Raspberry Pi's flavour of Linux, PiOS, has received an update for PC hardware. (The Register)
Tested on a laptop PC from 2007 with just 2GB of RAM it ran slowly but it did run. Compared with Intel's current entry-level CPU that laptop is between six and twenty times slower. PiOS is potato-certified.
- Having watched Android manufacturers struggle with and slowly improve folding displays in recent years, how do Apple's new (and extremely expensive) folding iPhone models hold up to the same tests? The don't. (Notebook Check)
Do not fold folding iPhone.
- Well, that's a stress test with someone deliberately trying to break the device. Surely they hold up better under normal everyday use? (Notebook Check)
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