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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.
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 …
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.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
AWS analysts claim that at least one actor started to exploit the PHP2Shell bugs on October 17, four days prior to the vulnerabilities' public disclosure
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
Reuters:
Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws
Wired:
The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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?
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
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

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT, the New York Daily News, and others sue browser maker Brave for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and letting users bypass paywalls

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
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OpenAI:
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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
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
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg:
Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation
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
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
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