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Comment "We will not reduce competition" (we promise) (Score 1) 16

DoorDash will argue (and the claim may be persuasive to the various agency reviews) that DoorDash and Instacart are in basically different markets (food delivery vs grocery shopping) and therefore there will be only de minimis reduction in competition in either market, and that such a combination will not prevent new entrants in the future. That, of course, ignores that the scale of the business also matters in other ways. The biggest losers are likely going to be the gig workers who will find fewer options for their labor.

Comment Re: Servers? (Score 1) 152

To be fair, most regular systems will not boot over the network.

Many desktops (targeted for corporations) will boot over the network, but I am not sure how many do so by default. Server class hardware deployed by in datacenters often has network boot enabled, and is used to install (and reinstall, and recover) the fleet.

Comment Re:What's with these disclosure cockups lately? (Score 1) 152

Are they caused by simpletons who are letting AI do their jobs without any oversight?

I would hope that AMI will offer a postmortem report that will explain how they broke the embargo. And they should have their membership in the super double secret handshake club reviewed and perhaps revoked if they can't show adequate changes in their processes to avoid the issue next time (and there will always be a next time).

Comment mod_php was considered the easiest approach (Score 5, Interesting) 29

The mod_php path was believed (in the security community) as the most likely viable exploit approach. php-fpm, which has been the recommendation for years, is believed to be much harder to exploit (no publicly documented exploit yet. yet. yet). That said, there are going to be a lot of sites who still use mod_php (if it work's, don't frack with it (and that presumes you have staff who could actually understand the details and make choices)).

Comment Re:Sounds better than a surprise layoff email (Score 4, Informative) 138

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees voluntary retirement program

Well, sounds better than a surprise layoff email.

This is a "the cat is on the roof" email. The layoff email(s) will come later if the number of the employees that accept the offer is lower than what Microsoft decides is necessary.

Comment Re:My Surprise (Score 4, Informative) 54

Despite its flaws, vulnerabilities, and haters I think that PHP is a good or admirable language for web servers.

But in this day of node and Javascript, and with AI's penchant for Typescript and React, I'm surprised that PHP is still heavily used.

Wordpress uses PHP. And something close to 40% of the internet sites use Wordpress (so, PHP).

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