IT Systems Engineer · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Systems engineer who writes the software. 7+ years as the sole or lead technologist for multi-site networks, Linux and Windows systems, Microsoft 365 and endpoint fleets, and the Python and JavaScript automation that ties them together.
Now building LLM tooling for operations: Zendesk ticket triage and an RMM troubleshooting agent. I isolate a fault to the layer it lives in, fix it there, and script the fix so it stays fixed.
What the nerds are reading. Refreshed every 15 minutes.
PHP 8.2.35 is now available, fixing two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, and users should update immediately.
Security researchers discovered that eight eMudhra certificate authority private keys were generated as single-byte values, allowing anyone to crack them in milliseconds.
The PHP project released security updates addressing two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities involving memory management and error handling, urging users to update immediately.
EA is shutting down the legendary studio BioWare, canceling the next Mass Effect game, and laying off about 400 employees.
PyPI package LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was compromised to include a credential stealer and remote code execution backdoor that executes whenever any Python process starts.
DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS "Cinnamon Teal" is released with asynchronous I/O, the Quack client-server protocol, first-class VARIANT data types, and new CLI agent modes.
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4, an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model featuring 1.05 trillion total parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and a 1.6-billion-parameter vision encoder.
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent designed to run in the background, handle multi-step tasks, and request approval for sensitive actions.
Researchers in West Papua discovered a pygmy long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider previously believed to have been extinct for 6,000 years.
At DrupalCon Rotterdam, Dries Buytaert highlighted recent advancements in Drupal CMS, core, AI integration, and headless capabilities, while launching an advocacy program.
GitLab released critical security updates addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including a CVSS 10.0 integer overflow in the regular expression compiler that allows remote code execution.
Google published its official Rust style guide, outlining internal standards for code organization, API design, formatting, and implementation patterns across its projects.
Researchers in Okinawa discovered "plasticorals," a new type of hybrid debris where melted household plastics have fused into the pores of beach coral rubble.
Windows 11 still includes the EmulateHeap compatibility fix, which contains a recompiled version of the Windows 95 memory manager to support legacy applications.
Most microcontroller-based IoT devices likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise because MCUs typically rely on hardcoded root certificates rather than web PKI trust stores.
Wiz discovered critical memory-safety and unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities affecting all PHP versions from the last decade, with patches released in October 2026.
Steam users are asking Valve to add a filter to hide AI-generated games, following a surge of low-effort titles in the latest Steam Next Fest.
AI-generated text lacks distinct style and precision, increasing reading time, reducing comprehension, and eroding trust between writers and readers.
LayerFS is a specialized filesystem designed for AI coding agents, providing ephemeral workspaces, atomic commits, content-addressed storage, and parallel branch management.
Rust off Rails is a web development framework that provides Markdown guides and specifications for AI coding agents to build full-stack Rust applications.
A benchmark of five bot detection systems against modern AI agents and stealth browsers found detection rates ranging from 9% to 99%.
The PHP security team announced an upcoming critical security release addressing two CVSS 9.2 vulnerabilities scheduled for October 21, 2026.
Firefox 153 introduces Local Mode in DevTools, allowing developers to map local folders to custom HTTPS URLs for testing Web APIs without a local server.
ZLS 0.17.0 is now available, bringing symbol renaming improvements, build system protocol updates, and tracking known regressions in build.zig support.
Security researchers discovered that eight eMudhra certificate authority private keys were generated as single-byte values, allowing them to be cracked in milliseconds.
The author highlights ten upcoming CSS features, such as native functions and the corner-shape property, nominated for inclusion in the Interop 2027 project.
Mozilla blocked eight compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates in Firefox using OneCRL and released updates to remove the root certificate from its trust store.
Multiple integer overflows in the musl libc regcomp function can cause incorrect allocation sizes and out-of-bounds heap writes when processing untrusted regular expressions.
The Blick editor implements a GPU-based rendering cache for its immediate-mode UI, reducing CPU and GPU power consumption by twenty percent on MacBook Pro.
Passkey attestation could enable websites to restrict user control over credentials, though platforms argue that mass-market consumer passkeys make such restrictions impractical.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Decker ecosystem's Lil scripting language and Hershey vector fonts to render, scale, translate, and shear 2D vector graphics.
Google publishes its official Rust style guide, detailing code organization, formatting, API design, and implementation standards for projects across the company.
Node.js released security updates for versions 26.x, 24.x, and 22.x to patch multiple high and medium severity vulnerabilities, including an RCE flaw in the Brotli decoder.
A Lobsters community meetup is scheduled in New York City on October 28th, with a location near Bryant Park or Borough Hall.