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October 22, 2026, 2:55 AM
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PHP:
PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, affecting all web request-serving installations, and urges PHP users to update  —  PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution.
The PHP Foundation:
The PHP Foundation details how it found and fixed the two flaws, and says it had to release patches a day early after the two CVE IDs began circulating online  —  Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35.  These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that …
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare says it deployed WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws by default, about nine hours ahead of public disclosure  —  Today, Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI and Quarkslab disclosed two vulnerabilities in PHP, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and known as php2shell.
Reuters:
Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
PHP's creators disclose a critical memory-management vulnerability, dubbed “PHP2Shell”, that affects up to 70% of websites, discovered via GPT-5.6 Sol in August
Wired:
The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors
Meta:
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% to $12.99B on a $9.89B AG settlement charge, and family DAP up 3% to 3.64B for September  —  Announces Establishment of New Class C Common Stock  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital it needs for developing AI models, with an effective date in January 2027  —  The company, which reported record revenue of $64.2 billion for the third quarter, said the new stock won't affect Mark Zuckerberg's voting control
Business Insider:
Mark Zuckerberg says Muse has drawn 10M+ users since its launch and 25%+ of users are making purchases through the app, with an average purchase size of $200+  —  - Meta reported third-quarter earnings on Wednesday.  — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said over 10 million people have set up a Muse AI agent since its launch.
Claude:
Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, a proactive agent app on iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users  —  A research preview is available by waitlist today, starting with US Pro and Max subscribers.  —  Join the waitlist … ShareCopy link
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal  —  Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Source and leaked memo: EA plans to cut ~400 jobs, or ~3% of its total staff, and shut down BioWare; EA went private in August following a $55B leveraged buyout  —  The next ‘Mass Effect’ will be canceled as part of the layoffs  —  Electronic Arts Inc. said it will lay off staff and shut down BioWare …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft reveals pricing for Xbox Cloud Gaming without Game Pass, for Xbox Insiders now and others next month: 10 hours for $3.99, 25 for $7.99, 50 for $11.99  —  Microsoft is opening up Xbox Cloud Gaming to anyone in November. … Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone …
Bloomberg:
Filing: Mark Zuckerberg commits to staying in Meta's HQ jurisdiction in return for nonvoting shares; he weighed leaving California over a proposed wealth tax  —  Meta Platforms Inc. signed an agreement with Mark Zuckerberg to keep him living in the same jurisdiction as the company's headquarters …
Jacob Cooper / Railway Blog:
Cloud provider Railway says an unauthorized party may have accessed customer encrypted environment variables and, for some, obtained the decrypted contents  —  Earlier this morning, Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables.
Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News:
GitLab patches a critical flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers, affecting every release since 7.0 in 2014  —  GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version …
Will Knight / Wired:
Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development  —  Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.  —  For the past few days I've been testing …
Zoho:
Diwali 2026: Your festive planning checklist with Zoho Notebook  —  The Diwali countdown is on!  From lighting up every corner of the house to going a little overboard with the festive shopping, Diwali has a way of turning the simplest things into something special.
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Bloomberg:NEW
Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations  —  Venture capitalists are fighting to invest in AI startup Emulate, driving its valuation into the billions …
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure and monitor AI agents, partnering with Canonical, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and others

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Command Line:
Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough  —  Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting.  Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach.  —  Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
Diwali 2026: Your festive planning checklist with Zoho Notebook  —  The Diwali countdown is on!  From lighting up every corner of the house to going a little overboard with the festive shopping …
IDrive:
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warns broadcasters not to air “fake polls” or “suppression polls”, once again threatening regulatory action for news content

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Trump snapped at him on Tuesday

Marc Caputo / Axios:
White House counsel warned Politico on Monday that the outlet had 48 hours to retract or correct stories about Chief of Staff Susie Wiles or face consequences

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models using less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation

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Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg:
Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation
Alix Coutures / The Information:
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform has 100K+ advertisers, up from 20K in late August
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April
The Verge:
iPhone Duo review: a fun device with a cool matte inner display, but the cover display is too small, it is heavy and bulky, the cameras are OK, and it gets hot
Reuters:
Memo: eBay is cutting ~9% of its workforce to simplify operations and shift resources to its fastest-growing areas; eBay cut ~6%, or 800 employees, in February
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