“AI #191: The Hackening Begins” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 23, 2026 · 1h 26m

It was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far. Not only is there a critical flaw in PHP that due to a leak was announced a day before the fix would be available, sending most of the internet scrambling for solutions and likely dooming a lot of long tail websites permanently, there were several other unrelated incidents. The floodgates seem to have been opened. I have a market on whether there will be an even worse day before the end of the year.

Another key leak this week was the draft bill Anthropic had been shopping around Congress, similar to but weaker than the FRONTIER…