Daily Tech News 23 October 2026

• PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb. (BBC)
  
  That's a little unfair. Unexploded bombs have, by definition, not exploded.
  
  PHP has logged 697 security vulnerabilities to date.

• BeIN, a Qatari company with offices in France sued Quad9, a Swiss company operating a central DNS service, to force it to block DNS lookups for people looking for pirate streams of the content BeIN hosts. A French court just ruled in BeIN's favour.
  
  So Quad9 blocked France. (Quad9)
  
  Jumanji.
  
  
  
• Google has found a way to shed unattractive weight without dangerous drugs, tiresome exercise, or unfair dismissal lawsuits. (BBC)
  
  Should have started doing this twenty years ago. It's probably too late now.
  
  
  
• GitLab. (The Register)
  
  A 10.0 severity security hole that has existed in all versions since 2014.
  
  
  
• Mark Zuckerberg plans to keep living in California and have Facebook shareholders pay the dystopian communist nation's wealth tax. (Tech Crunch)
  
  It's dystopian communism all the way down.
  
  
  
• The Pentagon has given the DHS permission to try out death lasers on illegal immigrants at the border. (CNN)
  
  Effects reportedly include a tingling, burning sensation, an instinctive compulsion to flee, and instantaneous incineration. Neat.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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