1021 | Critical Bugs, Cloud Outages and the Future of Open Knowledge

A fast tour through this week's tech and security news: critical PHP patches, CA key leaks, ransomware turncoats, Google's outages and open-source releases, plus education, culture and a few playful projects. Timeline 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:48 Security emergencies: PHP and certificate authorities 00:06:43 Trust broken: ransomware negotiators and malicious Tor exits 00:10:50 Google: outage and openness 00:14:49 Language tooling goes faster and freer 00:19:07 Information under pressure: AI, platforms and regulation 00:24:49 People, health and learning 00:29:19 Playful and practical side quests 00:33:26 Closing Related links Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models Voxtral 3 Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines What shall I teach my son? My Friend Bob Cringely IKEA – 3D Guide SimCity, but with Permits Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? Show HN: VoidAccess – open-source dark web OSINT, from query to a graph Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads View episode details → This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. Contact us at [email protected].