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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.
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
| OpenAI: |
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
An Australian federal judge rules Apple must let Australian iPhone users install apps from third-party app stores starting March 1, 2027; Apple plans to appeal — An Australian federal judge has ordered Apple to make sweeping changes to its App Store rules following a years-long antitrust battle with Epic Games.| 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 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special “terms” for AI — Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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: |
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| 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 … | Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| OpenAI: |
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| 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 …
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