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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.
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.
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  —  AI tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever.  Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it.
Reuters:
Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws  —  Several government, school and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as organizations rushed to protect themselves …
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 …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says the PHP flaws, found using GPT-5.6 Sol, “are among several significant vulnerabilities” it found and expects “similar findings to increase sharply”
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 …
Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics:
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 …
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
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  —  OpenAI will make its artificial intelligence models available for developers through Google's cloud, following years of competition between the two companies.
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 …
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  —  The iPhone Duo is the riskiest Apple product in years.  It's a huge rethink of what an iPhone is and could be …
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Apple says it plans to add Reachability to the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping users with small hands more easily access the left or right edges of the screen
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 …
OpenAI:
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
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  —  EBay (EBAY.O) will lay off about 9% of its workforce as the online marketplace looks to simplify operations and shift resources …
Chris Rohlf / Anthropic:
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.
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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  —  Flapping Airplanes, a year-old artificial intelligence startup, has raised $1 billion in funding at a $6 billion valuation …

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Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
A UK jury convicts two Iranians of assisting Iranian intelligence in a plan to “eliminate” journalists at London-based Persian broadcaster Iran International

Finya Swai / The Hill:
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Rosie Harris-Davison / City A.M.:
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