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"This issue is not specific to the Wikimedia Foundation, but affects any website running PHP. This is a significant internet security vulnerability that many organizations are responding to right now.
We are working to avoid downtime for our wikis, but we have deliberately taken many of our supporting services offline until they can be safely patched."
#wikimedia

Impact of PHP vulnerabilities on Wikimedia tools and services
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently preparing for two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that underpins much of what we operate today. These vulnerabilities are se…

A months-long pull request for iD (#OpenStreetMap’s default editor) to allow it to display #WikimediaCommons photos similar to other street-level photo services like @… and Mapillary was recently unblocked:

Weekend Adventures Oct 16th - 18th 2026 https://blog.bmann.ca/3myed2cqn422t

Weekend Adventures Oct 16th - 18th 2026 - Boris Blog
Take out food saves the weekend

Screen tests for the next James Bond supposedly include three elements:
stunts, camera presence and dialogue.
Reports are that between three and five actors are finalists for the role,
which was vacated by Daniel Craig after 2021’s No Time to Die.
The candidates, reportedly including Callum Turner and Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden, will appear in front of cameras as the secret agent this weekend in London.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sinners’ Jack O’Connell…

James Bond finalists to screen-test for role this week – reports
Actors in the mix to play 007 in Denis Villeneuve’s installment include Callum Turner and Jack Lowden

A look at Connect with Jacob Soboroff, MS NOW's newsmagazine produced out of its first LA studio, which helped push overall weekend viewership up by 23% YoY (Kyle Paoletta/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/not-a-ron-burg

Not a Ron Burgundy Situation: Jacob Soboroff, MS Now, and reinventing the TV newsmagazine.
Jacob Soboroff, MS Now, and reinventing the TV newsmagazine.

Yesterday Marie made pancakes with egg bacon tea coffee, after a weekend with the last home soccer match of the season (tie). Chill night at home watching Widows Bay. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/YzfSJvkGKzpxvs8m7

A pipeline failed because a directory "already existed" — except it didn't, not when I looked. Turns out screen had quietly let two copies of the same self-hosted Bitbucket runner run side by side for who knows how long, and Bitbucket never once complained about it.

Two Bitbucket Pipelines runners, one ID, and a git clone error for a directory that wasn't there - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
A pipeline run failed with this:

Guten Morgen,
Wochenmitte und nur noch heute und morgen zu arbeiten.
Nein, die Zeitung habe ich noch nicht gelesen, aber gestern mitbekommen, daß es die Region um Valencia nun das dritte Mal hintereinander mit Starkregen getroffen hat, weil das Mittelmeer zu warm ist.
Es scheint, die Nachricht ist in unserer #ÖRR Medienlandschaft schon fast zur Randnotiz verkommen und das ist sehr…

"Natuurlijk zal niet iedereen zo onder de indruk zijn. Veel mensen worden niet perse warm van wiskunde. Toch is deze ontwikkeling belangrijk voor de hele samenleving. We kunnen elkaar namelijk blijven vertellen dat ons beroep échte, menselijke eigenschappen heeft, en dat AI het daardoor nooit zal kunnen. Dat dachten wij ook. "
#AI #Wiskunde #NRC

Before you leave for the weekend after this seriously intense cyber week, check out today's Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you should know, including
--Banks scramble to keep uncontrolled AI agents out of customer accounts,
--eMudhra quits cert business after browsers pull trust,
--PHP flaws spark alarm but little confirmed damage,
--PHP crisis blacks out SoftBank disaster alerts as Japan plans AI cyber team,
--Capcom breach exposes 11.7m customer email records,
--Quest Diagnostics breach puts patient records at risk,
--FCC blocks two devices with Huawei surveillance chips,
--Researchers find gaps in OpenAI’s agent monitoring,
--Suspected DDoS attack knocks North Korean sites offline,
--Australia sanctions North Korean IT worker network,
--Russian hackers hide behind mesh network in Ukrainian grain attack,
--Critical Linux flaws go public before patches are ready,
--Anthropic says Claude proves crash protections across 123 libraries,
--Upwind rebuffs Datadog’s $4B acquisition offer,
--Volunteer PHP maintainer hailed as patching hero,
--Anthropic hands Agent Skills standard to AI foundation,
--AI bug hunting threatens more waves of disruption
https://www.metacurity.com/banks-scramble-to-keep-uncontrolled-ai-agents-out-of-customer-accounts/