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You may already know about this one.
An AI tool helped researchers find a problem with the core software for the internet.
What happened is that PHP, which runs approximately 70% of the internet’s websites, has a vulnerability.
Hackers can take advantage of this problem and take control of your site without logging in.
That means your super strong password is meaningless.
The fix is released, and most good hosts will have patched their servers already.
But only for PHP 8.2 and newer.
If your site runs on PHP 8.1 or older, it’s not getting the fix.
Check your hosting control panel for your PHP version.
If it’s 8.1 or below, upgrade it.
That might break an old theme or plugin, so update WordPress, your theme and your plugins first.
If something still breaks, that’s when you might need to rewrite parts of it.
If you’re not sure, ask your host. A good one will tell you straight away.
So yes, AI found a problem.
We have to fix it.
I used AI to check my sites for issues, we found a few that are now patched.
You can use AI to patch plugins that aren’t working correctly.
You can use AI to update abandoned plugins that you still want to use.
When you’re patching plugins, make sure you ask the AI tool, or a different one, to check the completed work for security holes.
And test it on a copy of your site before it goes live.
Keeping your software up to date is boring.
So are most of the things that make a business work.
Nobody tells you about either until something goes wrong.
This covers the business side:
https://link.ckv.to/profit-wormhole
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. Google’s write-up is here if you want the technical details.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/responding-to-core-php-vulnerabilities-cve-2026-109618-cve-2026-109619
Every ride.
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Every ride.
Something different happens.
Two things today.
The first was harmless
A parrot, I didn’t see what type, fled from a tree as I approached.
If you’ve ever heard some of our parrots you may know that they sound like banshees.
A screaming parrot flashed in front of me and clipped me.
Nothing serious, just the screaming and the touch of feathers.
I laughed.
The second was potentially more serious.
A brown snake was warming itself on the bike track.
At least a metre (3 feet) long.
Hard to be precise at 25 km/h with most of it already heading into the grass.
It left as I approached.
Brown snakes are among the most venomous in the world, but usually happy to get out of your way.
This one seemed extremely happy to leave.
I was happy to see it being happy.
There’s no screaming with a snake, except by people who are not used to seeing them.
I’ve had dealings with many snakes over my years living in country areas.
I’ve never had to kill one, and I’d rather not have to.
In Australia, there are many creatures living with people.
Mostly, neither the people nor the creatures interact.
We leave them alone and they leave us alone.
It’s a mutual pact of ignore.
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. Something you shouldn’t ignore: the things no one told you that you need to do to make sales.
These are the things that successful marketers do that others do not.
Check the list to find out what you might be missing.
https://link.ckv.to/profit-wormhole
A bin man in England opened up the back of his truck and found a seagull.
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A bin man in England opened up the back of his truck and found a seagull.
It was exhausted, dehydrated, and about 80 miles from home.
It had climbed into a bin looking for lunch.
Then the truck drove off.
Nothing dramatic happened.
No crash, no alarm.
The truck just kept going, one stop at a time, and the gull went with it.
It survived, by the way.
But it’s a good picture of how most of us end up somewhere we didn’t plan to be.
Not one big bad decision.
Lots of small ones that didn’t seem to matter.
A couple of weeks ago I told you that drifting through the days is far too easy now that I’m retired.
Lunch with friends.
A bit of shopping.
A day that somehow disappears.
None of it is a problem on its own.
That’s the trouble.
Drift is easiest to fix early.
Not 80 miles later.
In my experience, willpower doesn’t fix it.
It runs out about the time the truck leaves the depot.
Habits fix it.
The right ones keep you heading where you meant to go, without having to think about it.
This is the most practical book on building them that I’ve read.
https://go.wm-tips.com/atomic
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. It’s worth checking where you’re heading now and then. The gull didn’t, until someone opened the lid.
https://go.wm-tips.com/atomic
(That’s an affiliate link.)
The first time I took my Prius in for a service, the mechanic couldn’t start it.
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The first time I took my Prius in for a service, the mechanic couldn’t start it.
He couldn’t put it in gear either.
A Prius needs your foot on the brake for both.
And the gear lever is a little knob on the dashboard, not on the console.
This was a qualified mechanic.
He’d worked on hundreds of cars.
He was missing one small piece of knowledge.
He didn’t know it existed, so he couldn’t go looking for it.
Last week, Have A Go was about finding where you’re stuck.
Sometimes the blockage isn’t effort.
It’s something nobody told you.
Profit Wormhole is eight of those things.
Stop looking for new methods.
Work backwards from the outcome you want.
Do the work.
And five more, including the one most of us are worst at: asking for the sale.
None of it is new.
That’s the point.
It’s what works, without the two-year detour.
https://link.ckv.to/profit-wormhole
Regards,
Brent
An autoresponder service I’d been using has shut down.
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An autoresponder service I’d been using has shut down.
The claim on the website is that it “is no longer up to date for modern business needs”.
I had been getting emails from the founder and owner on a regular basis about how easy it was to grow a subscriber list.
It was all about posting on socials for about half an hour every day.
He was selling an easy way to get subscribers.
If it was that easy, it should have been thriving.
It was a subscription product, $24.95 monthly from memory.
I suspect there was some sort of blockage in his approach.
Was it insufficient visitors to his sales page?
Was it poor conversions?
Was the pricing too low for the service being offered?
Or perhaps he was just bored with the business and decided to retire.
I cannot find a reason in the public record, but I do know how he could have discovered it.
Those four questions are exactly what Have A Go checks.
Is it the offer, getting seen, getting the sale, or keeping up?
If this had been available then – https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go – he might have found and cleared the blockage.
Regards,
Brent.
There is a mine near Kambalda in Western Australia where most of the heavy machinery is remote controlled.
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There is a mine near Kambalda in Western Australia where most of the heavy machinery is remote controlled.
The mine is owned by a Chinese company and the controllers live and work in Perth, 632 kilometres away.
A friend’s son works there.
She’s just come back from a visit.
There are humans working on the site, but they do the work the machines can’t.
That is, until the remote control robots arrive.
I don’t know if that is the plan, but Chinese companies have been using remote controlled robots for a while now.
Until they’re reliable they won’t make it to a worksite.
None of these automated vehicles are AI controlled and able to make decisions.
Humans still make the decisions and control the actions, from Perth.
What could possibly go wrong?
Any remote control vehicle can be hijacked.
An electrical storm can disrupt a radio signal.
A controller can be distracted.
Electronic components can fail.
Everything works, until it doesn’t.
Most are designed to stop safely if something goes wrong.
But a stopped machine isn’t producing anything.
And the controllers see the result, not the cause.
Online businesses are the same.
You can see there aren’t any sales.
It’s not always easy to see why.
That’s why I built the Have A Go system.
It helps find the interruption in your sales.
Then it keeps you on track with a single action to clear it.
You’ll find it here https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go
Regards,
Brent.
There are two quotes that are often used for motor racing.
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There are two quotes that are often used for motor racing.
1/ To finish first, first you have to finish.
2/ Speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?
They both make sense.
There was an instance of the first over the weekend here in Australia.
There is a motor race that’s been running on the current track for 63 years.
The Bathurst 1000 is called The Great Race here.
I’ve been a fan for almost as long.
This year the car that should have won ran out of fuel on the last lap.
He was nursing it home, saving fuel, with a comfortable lead.
Then the safety car came out with three laps to go and bunched up the field.
He had to race hard to stay in front, and that used the fuel he’d been saving.
He didn’t finish.
You can watch the highlights if you wish, link in the PS.
Now all of these teams have spent a lot of money to be here and these cars are already very fast.
The average speed is roughly 165 km/h which is a bit over 100 mph.
So, how is this like life?
No matter how well you prepare, things still happen to cause you problems.
It’s not what happens that’s the real problem, it’s how you deal with it that counts.
No one cares that you had a problem, they only care about what you did about it.
In business the same behaviour is important, with one significant difference.
In business you can turn your solution into something that helps others.
This is because other people will have the same or similar problem and will want a solution.
And that’s the reason the Have A Go product exists.
It’s a solution to the problem of thinking you’re doing everything right and still not making sales.
It will help you find where the sales are being blocked, and help you overcome that blockage.
No cost, just have a go.
https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. Here’s the link to the Bathurst 1000 highlights for the 2026 race.
That’s what our youngest grandson says when he wants to be left alone.
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That’s what our youngest grandson says when he wants to be left alone.
It was his third birthday yesterday.
We celebrated at his house with just us two and his family.
Rambunctious is a very accurate word to describe him.
You should look that up.
Anyway, we were on the rear deck and he was charging around on his balance bike.
We’re buying him a proper bike for Christmas because we, and his parents, think he’s ready.
His dad has coached him to ask if I’ve crashed my bike since the last time we saw him.
Rotten kid.
After he’d opened our two presents, he asked, “Are there any more?”
We gave him a Lightning McQueen hat, amongst other things.
He wore it to bed.
I think he likes it.
The thing about this kid is that he is so independent.
He thinks he can do anything.
He has the confidence to have a go at whatever he wants to do.
Last weekend he was using the leaf blower to clean the back yard.
His most used expression is “Me do it.”
I hope he never loses that.
“Me do it” is a have-a-go attitude.
Most of us had it once.
The Have A Go 30-day Challenge is about getting it back.
Discover which part of your business is holding you back.
Stay focussed on that immediate blockage until it’s cleared, then find the next blockage to work on.
No cost, just have a go.
https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go
He’ll probably say “Don’t see me” when I ask how the new bike’s going.
Regards,
Brent.
“Knowledge without practice is useless.
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“Knowledge without practice is useless.
Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”
Attributed to Confucius, but who knows.
It has been said that the best way to learn something is to teach it.
There has always been a gap between book knowledge and acquired knowledge.
When I started work as an Office Equipment Technician there was no apprenticeship program.
It was all company training.
They taught you how to read the manual, where to find the components, and whatever you needed to know to work on their equipment.
Years later an apprenticeship program was set up, and those of us who didn’t have those qualifications began to miss out on promotions and jobs.
And yet, we were always the ones who solved the biggest problems because we understood how the machines worked.
We trained the apprentices, who then took our jobs.
When you know, you know.
But that piece of paper made a difference because it said you knew.
Whether you did or not.
Frankly, I’d rather know because I’ve done the learning hands-on, than have a piece of paper.
Most of us have bought more courses than we’ve finished.
That’s book knowledge.
It feels like progress, but it’s not the same as doing the work.
That’s what the Have A Go 30-day Challenge is for.
You’ll discover which part of your business is holding you back.
It’ll keep you focussed on that immediate blockage until it’s cleared, then find the next blockage to work on.
No cost, just have a go.
https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go
It’s how I used to fix photocopiers: one thing at a time.
Regards,
Brent.
The company I worked for shut down my depot.
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The company I worked for shut down my depot.
They offered me a position in Melbourne, but I was building a life in Mount Gambier.
I was about to get married for the first time, and my fiancée didn’t want to move.
So, I found other employment.
After multiple different jobs, none of which I enjoyed, I decided to start a business.
My wife was terrified.
“What if it fails?”
That’s a normal reaction, but the wrong one.
I replied with, “What if it succeeds?”
I don’t know if I convinced her or not, but I did open the business, and it didn’t fail so much as didn’t succeed.
As in, it worked, but not well enough.
That’s a fairly normal thing in small business.
But the thing that sticks with me is that you’ll never know if you don’t have a go.
Sure, it can be scary.
You’re stepping into the unknown, but as I said to her at the time:
The very worst that can happen in Australia is you end up on unemployment benefits in government-subsidised housing.
Not attractive, but it’s not living on the streets.
The safety net is thinner now.
But the risk of having a go is still usually smaller than the fear says it is.
So, if you’ve spent long enough getting ready, I have a 30-day challenge for you.
It’s called Have A Go.
First, you find the one thing that’s really stopping your next sale.
Then, every day for 30 days, you do at least one thing that puts your business in front of real people and could get you paid.
I’ll send you an idea each morning.
There’s also an AI prompt that keeps you honest and tells you when you’re mucking about.
No cost, just have a go.
https://link.ckv.to/have-a-go
Regards,
Brent.
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