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PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.

ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10144, (Wed, Oct 21st)

The Future of CSS

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175070 Points: 589 # Comments: 261

Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]

Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates

Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websites. [...]

YouTube might be testing hiding the dislike button

YouTube appears to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, as reported by 9to5Google. At least two users on X have recently shared screenshots of the dislike button now being placed in the three-dots submenu, and a user on Reddit also shared an image of the dislike button being absent for them. Right now, for me, the dislike button sits right next to the like button under a video. Moving it to a submenu would make it considerably more of an effort to access, meaning that fewer people wou

Choosing a different action when anger is present

Social capabilities across human development | Part 9 Does being socially capable mean never getting angry? A feeling and the next action can be considered separately. Avoiding harm, communicating what matters, and choosing another action when upset are part of emotion regulation's social significance. Two children play a board game. The child who loses clenches a hand in frustration. The other waits instead of immediately starting another round. The disappointed child moves their hand away from

72,257 Titles Against 239,739 Fingerprints: Picking the Right NetScaler Field

72,257 Titles Against 239,739 Fingerprints: Picking the Right NetScaler Field When the same product can be queried four different ways and each returns a different number, the choice of field becomes a substantive decision with an audit trail. NetScaler is a clean example because the product has an old name, a new name and a corporate parent. On 20 October 2026, between 22:32 and 22:37 UTC, queries with sub_type="all" and a page size of one record returned: Query Matched assets app="Cit