Tip of the Week: PowerPoint, PHP patch management, and AI docs

• How to make a dense, cluttered photo work as a clean PowerPoint slide
  
• Why the new PHP flaw makes patch management urgent for anyone with a website
  
• How an Anthropic engineer uses Claude inside shared docs at work

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Cybersecurity

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the language running roughly 70 percent of the world’s websites, let an attacker execute code on a server with no login required. Patches are out. The part worth your attention is how the flaws were found: AI turned a process that used to take weeks into one that takes hours, which means the window between disclosure and exploitation is closing fast. Patch management timelines that felt fine last year do not hold up against that.

Stephen Hicks went deeper on this in October’s Cybersecurity Office Hours, alongside forged certificates, the ConnectWise Cloud Backup compromise, and what AI is changing about attacker speed. Watch the recording here.

Title: PHP bug "about as bad as it can get," cybersecurity reporter says

Viewing Time: about 3 minutes

AI

An Anthropic product engineer walks through how his team uses Claude inside a shared doc, surfacing discussion topics during standup, pulling numbers into launch write-ups, pressure testing his own conclusions, and handling teammate comments. The interesting part is where he keeps himself in the loop and where he hands the work off.

If you want to see that applied to real business problems, the next AI Office Hours is November 3rd from 1 to 2 PM PT, where fractional CFO David Smith shares how he built a full board presentation in a single day and cut a 75-minute daily reconciliation down to 3 minutes. Register here. 

Title: How an Anthropic engineer uses Claude Docs

Viewing Time: under 2 minutes

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