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Two hundred thousand jobs lost in media, film, and the arts since two thousand twenty two — and a new economic analysis is asking how much of that toll belongs to artificial intelligence. The numbers are striking, but the harder question is about displacement versus transition, and whether the creative class is being erased or simply pushed somewhere we haven't mapped yet.
From one threat to another — security researchers are reporting confirmed remote code execution in the wild through a vulnerability being called PHP two Shell. Honeypot data published this week shows packet-level evidence of attackers moving from initial probe to active shell access. It's a reminder that exploitation of web-facing PHP infrastructure remains a reliable entry point for bad actors, and patching cycles still lag dangerously behind.
And on a quieter corner of the internet, someone is asking a genuinely interesting question: why Gopher in two thousand twenty six? The decades-old protocol, a predecessor to the web, has a small but persistent community that values its simplicity, its resistance to surveillance, and its stubborn refusal to become a platform. Sometimes the old roads are worth walking again.
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