REA has earned 100,000 GitHub stars, far surpassing the earlier reported 80,000 stars.
Using REA, a “slow TV” app launch time was reduced from 30 seconds to 3 seconds.
In the Claude incident, the hidden crypto miner consumed 12 cores.
The miner drove the CPU temperature up to 112 °C.
The miner had been active since August, automatically restarting on every boot.
I shared these updates on LinkedIn on 21 October 2026 to showcase REA’s open‑source power, the reach of my AI‑WhatsApp community, and Claude’s ability to surface hidden security threats.