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It Turns Out Binance’s $6 Billion Hack Happened Because Its Employees Were Vibe Coding futurism.com/future-society… #ai

Claude Code’s “Don’t Ask Again” option can create a credential leak.

Apiiro found 2,539 exposed secrets across 1,994 public GitHub repositories, traced to saved command approvals containing credentials.

The risk: approving a command can also persist its password or API key.

Deleting the file doesn’t erase Git history. Revoke and rotate exposed credentials.

"Black Friday" now means all of November.

#WordPress 7.2 is adding a (customizable) /random/ endpoint that returns a set of random posts. It's enabled by default (which it shouldn't imo) and getting some vigorous debate on the announcement post:

make.wordpress.org/core/2026/11/0…

Heads up: Claude exposes passwords and keys on GitHub thehackernews.com/2026/11/claude…

TIL: 2026 #CSS prefix support:

-moz- Firefox
-o- Opera (older versions)
-ms- IE & Edge (before Chromium)
-webkit- Basically every browser

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glo…

Another super useful #WordPress function I'd never heard of until today:

wp_trim_words( )

Does exactly what it says. I've always included a custom function to do this 😅

developer.wordpress.org/reference/func…

Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids.

nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/…

Imagine caring so much you replace your code snippets w/ screenshots of code snippets 😂 dev.to/iamcymentho/ma…

Just checking if I'm crazy.. is it still possible to include tab spaces in comments added in the #WP support forums? I just tried to copy/paste some indented code and all the tab indents were removed. Tried adding them back in manually but would not allow. On Chrome.

Pretty sure #WordPress built-in debug log feature is not writing to the log. I've tried everything across multiple sites and no PHP error will trigger/write to debug.log. Testing in WP 7.1 currently. If you can test please let me know the results, ..it may be server related.

Someone in the #WP forums said that it's working for them.. so who knows. I don't have time to fiddle too much so I just rolled my own logging script.

Customers are so used to AI support nowadays that often our live chats start with the customer saying “talk to human”

At SetraHost, we do not use AI support nor outsourced support. You will always be helped by a real human who is happy to help! 🙂

These guys straight up stole the name of my firewall. For many years I've developed the free and open-source nG series firewall, currently at 8G with 9G in development. Whatever they are calling "9G" is not my creation. wpghost.com/kb/9g-firewall/

I posted in the plugin forum: wordpress.org/support/topic/…

Alright *deep breath* going for it:

I was 11 when I walked into my middle school computer class and learned to program games in BASIC.

Today, I help agencies and solopreneurs take control of their WordPress sites.

I'm looking for sponsors to keep my free plugins, tutorials, and courses developing and to support a woman in tech who is bootstrapping it all.

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We protect over 5 million PHP sites and when we find a major exploitable vulnerability, we always see site cleanings. We have seen exactly zero hacked sites from php2shell. Zero. Across a population of 5 million PHP sites that our product protects. Draw your own conclusions. #php2shell

Bold voice claiming there is no #PHP exploit: eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

For anyone curious about how an actual POC might work for the recent #PHP vulnerabilities, here is a full report along with POC written in Python. #php2shell github.com/eness/php2shel…

I am no longer a paper-free office lol.. Finally broke down and bought a sketchpad and watercolor supplies. Getting back into drawing and painting a little bit. Have some things in mind.