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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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| 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.
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| The PHP Foundation: |
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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) … | 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.
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| 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?
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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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| 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
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