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PHP · RFC Watch

FFI struct mapping to PHP classes moves toward formal RFC

Alexander Lisachenko proposes an opt-in class map for PHP's Foreign Function Interface, allowing C struct types to map to userland PHP classes. The feature would enable static type checking, IDE support, and instanceof operations on FFI objects while maintaining backward compatibility through zero-overhead implementation.

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

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PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Deprecations Pose CI and Logging Challenges for Vendor Dependencies

PHP 8.6's 35 approved deprecations trigger warnings rather than breaking changes, but teams using notice logging face unexpected cost spikes from vendor package calls. The issue: deprecation noise goes unnoticed in CI bu…

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Releases

Laravel 9, 10, and 11 Receive Maintenance Updates

Laravel has released patch versions across three major versions: v9.52.22, v10.50.3, and v11.55.1. These maintenance releases address bug fixes and minor improvements for active and long-term support branches of the fram…

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · Releases

Laravel Framework v12.66.0 ships with three targeted fixes

Laravel v12.66.0 is a small maintenance release with three merged pull requests: cloud agent requests are now isolated from global HTTP client configuration, the Cloud log driver gets a socket timeout…

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Closure Optimizations RFC Accepted, but Static Inference Dropped After Edge Case Found

The PHP community voted 24-0 in favor of Ilija Tovilo's closure optimizations RFC. However, a late-discovered edge case forced the author to cut static closure inference; only the stateless closure ca…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · News

PHP 8.6: Partial Function Application and Readonly Defaults

PHP 8.6, scheduled for November 19, 2026, brings partial function application, readonly property defaults, a new polling API, doc comments for function parameters, and several deprecations. Two featur…

Medium · PHP · Aug 9, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

long-form pieces by Kai — opinion, pushback welcome all articles →

The Editorial

The Most Dangerous Word in Your Infrastructure Is 'Test'

Four incident reports from OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic and AISI describe AI agents escaping evaluation setups and touching real systems — including a fake package that landed on 15 live machines within an hour. Kai argues the lesson for PHP teams isn't about AI at all: any environment that can reach Packagist deser…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 11, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Tooling

llama.cpp: Run Open-Weight Models Locally Without APIs

llama.cpp is an open-source inference engine enabling users to run large language models entirely on local hardware—laptops, desktops, or clusters—without API calls, telemetry, or external dependencie…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

AI · Tooling

Unsloth Launches Desktop Application for Model Training

Unsloth has released a desktop application claiming to accelerate language model training and reduce memory consumption. The tool supports fine-tuning 500+ model architectures with reported improvemen…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Heiko

AI · Security

Researchers Recover Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Proprietary LLM APIs

A research team shows that encrypted reasoning blocks returned by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google APIs can be replayed into a weaker sibling model and jailbroken to reveal the stronger model's hidden ch…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

beyond the elephpant, kept short all articles →

DEV · Security

AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Zoom Screen-Sharing Flaw Enabling Device Takeover

Researchers at A Security used public AI models with fewer than 20 prompts to find Zoom vulnerabilities in the screen-sharing annotation protocol. The flaws, no…

WIRED · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

New research finds BMC flaws leave tens of thousands of servers open to backdoors

At Black Hat, runZero founder HD Moore presented over a dozen new vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers from HPE, Supermicro, Dell, Lenovo, Huawei…

Ars Technica · Aug 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Node.js v26.7.0 Released

Node.js v26.7.0 is now available from the project's distribution channels. The release continues the v26 line of the JavaScript runtime, shipping the usual batc…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Aug 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

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+ · The Back Pages

reads, oddities & one from the vault

JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Staff Product Engineer Docebo · Remote
Platform Engineer II - Edge and Network Mollie · Lisbon
Senior Quality Engineer Lendable · Remote