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SED News: PHP’s Megabug, a Hidden Mic at OpenAI, and Dead AI Products

aired Nov 05, 2026 · 54.0m
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Summary

we take a spin through the tech headlines we then do a sort of bigger topic in the middle and then we take a look at our favorites from hacker news that have popped up through the month as well both of us have been pretty busy i think since we last were doing sed news but we did actually see each other in person as well in sf which was very very nice always to see you in the real world not just on a video screen yeah

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, yeah, it's, including: This is the monthly installment of Software Engineering Daily where myself, Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer are with me.

Key takeaways
  1. 01we take a spin through the tech headlines we then do a sort of bigger topic in the middle and then we take a look at our favorites from hacker news that have popped up through the
  2. 02Still dumbfounds me like how much the internet runs on WordPress, basically runs on PHP
  3. 03but yeah i think that's not exactly the case but similarly with python was never intended to be the language it is today it was really supposed to be something like a wrapper for s
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