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.

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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  —  OpenAI will make its artificial intelligence models available for developers through Google's cloud, following years of competition between the two companies.

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 …

Nvidia unveils the DSX POD, a modular containerized version of its Vera Rubin reference architecture to cut data center deployment from six months to 14 days  —  Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week  —  Nvidia has claimed its DSX reference architecture for AI data centers …

OpenAI says two agents, one GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra, weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested changes during two internal coding tasks  —  GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra  · Internal deployments  —  Discovered: Oct 3, 2026 (Sol); Oct 6, 2026 (Astra)  —  Summary

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  —  The iPhone Duo is the riskiest Apple product in years.  It's a huge rethink of what an iPhone is and could be …

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 …

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 …

Filing: Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is considering leaving California if it passes a one-time 5% tax on billionaires; voters will decide on the measure next month  —  Meta Platforms Inc. signed an agreement with Mark Zuckerberg to keep him living in the same jurisdiction as the company's headquarters …

Anthropic and Citrini Research use an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins, testing 211 designs  —  In August, we showed how Claude designed protein minibinders after being given a single prompt.

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  —  EBay (EBAY.O) will lay off about 9% of its workforce as the online marketplace looks to simplify operations and shift resources …

Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years  —  Over the past year, we've published lots of data that shows that frontier AI models are more than capable of discovering and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months  —  How OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to help scientists identify promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells

Dario Amodei says Anthropic's “race to the top” makes AI safer, lists nine safety decisions with “substantial costs”, and admits to mishandling a draft AI bill  —  Thank you for this, @_NathanCalvin. I appreciate and am a fan of the investigative work you've done on behalf of AI safety and believe your comments are coming from a constructive, honest place, and that it benefits the public to have people whose job is to scrutinize the actions of frontier AI com...

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $17.1B, above $16.82B est., net income up 26% to $2.19B, software revenue up 8% to $7.8B, and infrastructure revenue up 4%  —  The company reported a third-quarter profit of $2.19 billion, up from $1.74 billion a year earlier

SAP: Q3 cloud revenue up 25% YoY to €6.67B, vs. €6.57B est., total revenue up 12% to €10.27B, current cloud backlog up 26% to €24.1B, all in constant currencies  —  SAP SE reported higher growth for its cloud products than anticipated in a sign that the boom …