Two massive security issues hit this week, so make sure your PHP and certs are up to date. And find resources to get your agents in check. ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

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Issue 242: Fix your PHP, AI learning Cobol, Vintage AI & silent tools…

25-26/11/2026: WeAreDevelopers Conference India

14-16/07/2027: WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe

Hello fellow developer, what a nightmare week in terms of security. Most important is that if you have a server, make sure that your PHP is up to date. It made me look at some servers I hadn't touched in ages, and boy do I need to fix a lot. What it made me do though is find joy in coding again. That's why we're announcing a creative coding competition and you can win a ticket for any of our events and we'll invite the first 3 winners to a special edition of Coffee With Developers. So, why not get creative? 

Excellent news! You can now get tickets for the WeAreDevelopers Conference India in November! And if you use the code DEVDIGEST on checkout, tickets are 15% cheaper!

Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents Mark Cavage & Michael Irwin & Hervé Bizira

Stop relying on AI to police itself. Discover how Docker's new micro-VM sandboxes help developers embed deterministic boundaries to safely scale multi-agent production and secure autonomous code. Mark Cavage, Michael Irwin and Hervé Bizira got all the details.

And more Coffee With Developers:

  • Yasmine Kordjazy: Syntax, Semantics, and Systems: From Linguistics to Software 

What's happening in AI

  • OpenAI models help banks migrate from old COBOL programs more (details) 
  • People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
  • The Topology of an LLM Agent Loop With Tool Use
  • The open standard for agent readiness
  • "I'm Sorry, Have We Met?" — Frictionless Memory for AI

Security and Privacy

  • Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
  • 8 eMudhra certificates are compromised and they were cracked in milliseconds
  • PHP CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: how to apply the patches
  • Chromes's latest defenses against evolving web scams
  • I Gave 14 LLMs AWS Keys. Here's What They Wanted to Do Next

Software Development

  • I Built a Modern UK Government Service Using COBOL
  • JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases
  • Introducing tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
  • Package Manager Sandboxing
  • The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

Tips, Tricks and Tools

  • A JavaScript implementation of a web browser without its GUI
  • Turn Lighthouse audits into a fix plan for Claude
  • Trusted front-end quality rules for humans and AI agents
  • The visual JSON editor. Schema-aware, embeddable, extensible.
  • Tools that don't phone home.

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

  • Vintage Artificial Intelligence
  • Search Usenet newsgroup archives — text posts from 1981 to present.
  • PlayStation 2 games running in the browser through static recompilation.

Career and Culture:

  • W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era
  • What's the ROI of Software Engineers' Spending on AI?
  • Publish stats, get cited: The tactic that put my data all over the web
  • Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered
  • Do we still enjoy software engineering in the age of AI?

Are you looking for opportunities or fancy a change?

Companies to check:

  • Senior Backend Engineer C#/.Net at Riverty
  • Software Engineer – Full Stack at tree-IT
  • IT Service Architect - Platform Engineer at ROSEN
  • PEGA Developer at Sopra Steria
  • Angular Developer at BITE
  • Sunhat
  • SKIDATA
  • TeamViewer Germany
  • Douglas
  • IGEL Technology

More jobs here: Remote positions - Germany - Austria

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