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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching — Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
More: Amazon Web Services, Financial Times, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer, The Guardian, Metacurity, Reuters, The Register, New York Times, Bloomberg, Politico, SiliconANGLE, AI Policy Daily, TechRadar, Infosecurity, and WinBuzzer
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Bluesky: @brbarrett and @couts
| 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 …
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X: @chainguard_dev, @naderman, @andrewmohawk, @mikko, @arvidkahl, and @thephpf
Forums: Hacker News, r/kubernetes, r/programming, and r/cybersecurity
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Bluesky: @mondoab and @charles.littlegreenfootballs …
Forums: r/theprimeagen, r/ReverseEngineering, and r/ItalyHardware
| Meta: |
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% YoY to $12.99B on a $9.9B AG settlement, and family DAP up 3% YoY 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.
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Semafor, Bloomberg, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Meta, 24/7 Wall St., Reuters, Coinpaper, Business Insider, and Meta
X: @dangaron, @danielnewmanuv, @semaforben, and @thestalwart
| 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
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| Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters: |
Epic says “Fortnite is coming back to the App Store in Australia tomorrow” after an Australian federal judge ordered Apple to open up iOS in an antitrust case — Epic Games said its shooter title “Fortnite” will return to Apple's (AAPL.O) App Store in Australia on Thursday … | AJ Vicens / Reuters: |
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations — A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part … | Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens — The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
More: Hugging Face, Business Insider, RuntimeWire, and Crypto Briefing
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors — The Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in its latest fundraising round, one of the country's largest ever …
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, Quartz, Semafor, Ventureburn, RuntimeWire, and Crypto Briefing
| New York Times: |
SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home — The billionaire told Meta's board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.| Bloomberg: |
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X: @cernovich, @william_fitz, @petermeijer, and @bobbyfijan
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/bayarea
| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sources: Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector — Visa is in late stage talks to acquire stablecoin infrastructure and custody company Fireblocks for about $2.5 billion, Axios Pro has learned from multiple sources.| 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 …
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X: @playeressence, @pirat_nation, @wario64, @jezcorden, @tomwarren, and @xboxinsider
Forums: Hacker News, r/consoledeals, r/PlaystationPortal, r/pcmasterrace, r/xcloud, r/gaming, and r/xboxinsiders
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, The Hacker News, Claroc Blog, Cyber Security News, crypto.news, and The Defiant
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server for AI agents to shop its site, and Agent Profiles to authorize agents and track their purchases separately — Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed …
More: Walmart Inc., The Verge, PCMag, Quartz, Storyboard18, Inc.com, PYMNTS.com, The Aisle, Finimize, Adweek, Business Insider, and Axios
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple is rolling out a new “Made for iPhone Duo” badge in the App Store, and touts Netflix, Prime Video, Zoom, Word, and Outlook as Duo-optimized apps at launch — Many apps, including Netflix, Microsoft Word, and Zoom, are taking advantage of the Duo's extra screen real estate.
More: Apple, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Crypto Briefing, and iThinkDifferent. Forums: r/apple
| New York Times: |
Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days — Ukraine says it still doesn't know why the military satellite internet service, a sister to Starlink, was abruptly throttled, leaving troops vulnerable to Russian attacks.
More: CBS News. X: @georgeszamuely, @siobhan_ogrady, @maxpatten, @philklay, @rmac18, and @samagreene
| Politico: |
Sources: the Pentagon quietly establishes the Technology Support Office (TSO), an agency to execute covert sabotage, cyberattacks, and supply chain disruptions — The Pentagon has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's — The very nature of the iPhone Duo raises numerous obvious questions about what it's like to use. Does it not feel thick and heavy, awkward both to pocket and unpocket?
More: 9to5Mac, NBC News, New York Times, Techaeris, New York Magazine, Wired, and The Verge on YouTube
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Forums: r/iPhoneDuo, r/iphone, and r/apple
| Andrew Gray / Reuters: |
Palantir says that neither the company nor the US government has a “kill switch” for its Maven platform that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starlink disruptions — US software company Palantir (PLTR.O) sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no … | William Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers — Barclays to Cut 5,000 Jobs as AI Starts to Create Efficiency — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 69.77% Playback Rate| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Source: Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays — Elon Musk's public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O) … | SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization — Huawei Ascend 950PR Deep dive & µbenchmarks, DSv4.1 Flash Analysis, DeepSeek support for Ascend, AICPU, Tilelang Ascend| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
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 …
X: @_iainmartin
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and announces 1Password for Agents — And the free cash flow margin is in the double digits amid an explosion in coding assistants and agents in enterprise settings
More: PCWorld, Quartz, BetaKit, Engadget, The Verge, Axios, Financial Post, The Deep View, and iPhone in Canada
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.97B, below €4.98B est., subscribers up 9% to 306M, MAUs up 11% to 788M, meeting est., and €672M operating income — Spotify Technology SA reported monthly active users grew 1% in the third quarter, over the prior quarter … | Victoria Craw / Washington Post: |
President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask Google Maps to rename the Atlantic Ocean, though he would “probably pass” following Pichai's pushback — President Donald Trump said he called Google's Sundar Pichai to discuss renaming the Atlantic Ocean, but would “probably pass” … Sponsor Posts
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