Daily Tech News 22 October 2026

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• So PHP did a thing. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Patches are out now if you're on a recent version. If you're not on a recent version, tough. Thanks, PHP.
  
  
  
• There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability. (Elias Taylor)
  
  Do not take advice from random websites. This does not appear to be true.

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• The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupial species though to have been extinct for thousands of years, have been discovered in New Guinea. (BBC)
  
  Always in the last place you look.
  
  
  
• The creator of OpenClaw says he racked up $10 million in token charges last month. (The Register)
  
  He works for OpenAI now, so he didn't pay for it.
  
  Did he generate $10 million worth of value, though? I doubt it.
  
  
  
• Electronic Arts finally drove a stake through the chest of the shambling corpse of BioWare. (WCCFTech)
  
  The company's last unreservedly good game came out in 2010.
  
  
  
• Micron is vagueposting. (WCCFTech)
  
  Promising new types of memory soon. Not for you though.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's next generation Xbox, expected in 2028, is also expected to cost between $1200 and $1800. (Ars Technica)
  
  Call it a kiwi because that's never gonna fly.
  
  
  
• I was looking to see if I could buy a pink bottlebrush, and then the red bottlebrushes I planted last year flowered and I realised that I already had one - the one I planted first, early last year, and thought was red was clearly pink when you see them side-by-side.