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PodcastTBPNOctober 21, 2026

Cybersecurity Red Alert, SpaceX Earnings, OpenAI Strikes Google Deal | Diet TBPN

Musk's SpaceX projected $500B-$1T ARR by 2027 while OpenAI diversified distribution to Google Cloud amid a major AI-discovered PHP vulnerability.

  • PHP2Shell vulnerability: A memory-management flaw in PHP (used by ~70% of websites), discovered in August and patched October 22, is dubbed PHP2Shell, likened to Heartbleed, and was found partly via AI (GPT-5.6-class model) at security firm Caleb; ~200 files and 10,000+ lines of patch code were needed.
  • eMudra TLS key bug: A second flaw surfaced where some TLS certificate private keys were trivially guessable—one was literally the number "4"—and had reportedly gone unexploited for 18 months.

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