if you are running a PHP application - it does not matter what it is - you are vulnerable. if you are running some embedded firmware that uses PHP to serve its web UI - you are vulnerable. full details and a patch at 2 PM UTC sharp tomorrow, you have been advised to prepare to patch immediately
not sure when JDKs would update their certs, but I think this is how to patch the CI to block eMudhra intermediate CAs
github.com/sbt/sbt/pull...#scala
🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised.
This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue.
Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected.
Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com
Act now.
released sbt 2.0.11, featuring
- workaround for async SemanticDB writes
- better Docker support
- and other backported fixes
eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.11#Scala
Still using Scala 2? We are happy to announce that Scala 2.13 and 2.12 will now be maintained by VirtusLab. See blog post for details: scala-lang.org/blog/scala2...
🥮 released sbt 2.0.10, featuring
- Coursier 2.1.26
- sbt runner script that honors JAVA_HOME environment variable
- Read-only CAS, to prevent CAS corruption
- and other backported fixes
eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.10#Scala
my immunologist wife got published on Nature, also made it open access so everyone can read it
the notion of memory is traditionally associated with the adaptive immunity (T cells, B cells), but trained immunity challenges this notion, which claims epigenetic shift in innate side can be significant
October 26: #Scala meetup in New York!
For those who couldn't attend the full Scala Days experience in Berlin, we're coming over bringing two talks: "Making the AI agents safe with Scala" by Łukasz Biały (the approach that won the best paper award at CAIS 2026) and "Where Scala meets AI" by myself.
kicking off sbt 2.1.0 beta with 2.1.0-M1. sbt 2.1.0 features:
- Scala 3.9.0 on the metabuild
- Ivyless publishing
- Updated clean task
- Testing UX improvements
- Various performance improvements
and many contributed bug fixes. plz test it out and let us know
eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.1.0-beta#Scala
Every week I get a metagenomic readout of the most elevated viruses from wastewater collected the week before (44 sites).
COVID was on the list today for the first time since last winter, along with D68 and a bunch of rhinoviruses.
Deleted a couple cantankerous posts in favor of positive action: I have archived three http4s repositories and will archive 7 more in 30 days unless someone else steps forward.
This is a direct consequence of AI security advisories. The surface area will continue to contract until […]
I have, like, an entire list of qntm novels I think you should read but this collection has at least three stories you will literally never stop thinking about and come on it's a *dollar*
VALUABLE HUMANS IN TRANSIT AND OTHER STORIES is discounted to $0.99 on Kindle in the US and Canada, today only!
This collection includes the highly relevant short story "Lena" and an exclusive sequel story "Driver"
Sept 5th Update:
As predicted in June, a relatively modest late summer wave is occurring in the West and South, less than half numbers last summer. Texas about half of last year. Midwest and NE are still at minimal levels.
🔸️180k infections/day
🔸️1 in 350 currently infectious
🔸️W+S about 3x MW+NE
🔸️Wastewater levels on both WWScan and Biobot remain at rock bottom levels.
5-8x lower than previous lulls and 50-80x lower than our last big waves in 2024.
🔸️<40k infections/day
🔸️We may still see a small late summer wave for the West and South.
Aside from its history and cultural value, the Kraków Cloth Hall is still used as a center of commerce. How about feeling like you are shopping in the 15th century?
🎥 thehistorymagpie on TikTok
New Scala LTS is out! Read all about it in the recent blog post by Wojciech Mazur at scala-lang.org/news/3.9/. The blog post covers all the most recent features, a quick reminder of all the ones since the last LTS, and practical information about migrating.
Chicago architecture in the Loop area. The Monadnock Building. per Wikipedia, 16-story at 66m, it is the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed. it also employed the first portal system of wind bracing in the US.
One First National Plaza / Chase Tower, completed in 1969. at 259m, it was among the tallest reinforced concrete buildings in the world at the time of completion.
Chicago architecture in the Loop area. The Monadnock Building. per Wikipedia, 16-story at 66m, it is the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed. it also employed the first portal system of wind bracing in the US.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building. current 44-story building is from 1930. the advent of steel frame structural system allowed completely vertical construction, per Wikipedia.
📢 released sbt 1.13.0 and 2.0.7, featuring
- vulnerability fix for remote code execution via BSP-over-TCP (default serverConnectionType is not affected)
- sbt 1.13.0 adds a workaround for Scala 3.9 REPL
eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.13.0-a...#Scala
⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted.
For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...
⚠️ Security advisory: sbt server (1.x/2.x) had an RCE vulnerability (GHSA-m2pw-22cj-jq4v). Only builds with a non-default `serverConnectionType` setting of TCP are affected. Upgrade to sbt 1.12.15+/2.0.6+ or alter the setting. Writeup: scala-lang.org/blog/2026/0...
For HTML Day 2026: a tasting menu, assembling as wide an array of HTML elements as practical into a single page. Intended as a test bed for your base CSS rules.
https://tasting-menu.rossabaker.com/#HtmlDay#Html#IndieWeb
released tree-sitter-scala 0.26.2, featuring
- capture checking syntax
- XML literals
- binary integer literals
- wildcard in self type
- reserved keywords
- infix operator precedence and associativity per SLS 6.12.3
and many other contributed features and fixes
eed3si9n.com/tree-sitter-...#Scala
i'm really proud of this policy. it's not perfect, but i think it's close to the best that was possible given all the constraints. i'm excited that this will make things easier for mods and reviewers, and hopeful that it will spark change in Rust's governance.
blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
📢 released sbt 1.12.15 and 2.0.6, featuring
- vulnerability fix for remote code execution via server when serverConnectionType is set to Tcp
we recommend removing the serverConnectionType setting, or upgrading to a patched version or later
eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.15-...#Scala
⛈️ GitHub Actions going sideways today
"We are continuing to work on an issue affecting multiple GitHub services.
Workflow runs are still failing or delayed in starting, and some queued jobs may time out."
www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qc...
NEW STORY DAY
“Not Like Other Girls” is now out in ebook and @reactorsff.bsky.social
A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.
Art: A.W. Sommers
Design: Jess Kiley
Editor: Ann VanderMeer
reactormag.com/not-like-oth...
🌻 released sbt 2.0.5, featuring
- in-process test ClassLoader that closes by default
- `update` task performance improvements
- common settings bug fix
eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.5#Scala