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An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (@laurahazardowen / Nieman Lab)

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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 (OpenAI)

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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 (@tomwarren / The Verge)

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Flapping Airplanes, which is working on methods to train AI models on less data and compute and make the chips more efficient, raised $1B at a $6B valuation (@rachelmetz / Bloomberg)

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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 (@jonathanvanian / CNBC)

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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 (@jasonschreier / Bloomberg)

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The PHP Foundation says its RCE patches are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors (Wired)

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Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development (@willknight / Wired)

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Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (@alexrkonrad / Upstarts Media)

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The PHP Foundation details how it found and fixed the two flaws, and says it had to release patches a day early after the CVE IDs began circulating online (The PHP Foundation)

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Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws (Reuters)

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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 (@nmasc_ / Bloomberg)

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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" (OpenAI)

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Cloudflare says it deployed default WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws, roughly nine hours ahead of public disclosure (Cloudflare)

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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 (@chrisrohlf / Anthropic)

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PHP discloses a critical memory-management vulnerability, dubbed "PHP2Shell", that affects up to 70% of websites, discovered using GPT-5.6 Sol in August (@bobmcmillan / Wall Street Journal)

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PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, urging all PHP users to update; all web-serving deployments are affected (PHP)

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ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell (@radhikaraj_ / ZDNET)

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Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation, up from $5.55B after raising a $550M Series D in March (@rosiehdavison_ / City A.M.)

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K+, up from 20K in August (@alix_coutures / The Information)

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Apple says it plans to add Reachability for the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping people with smaller hands more easily access the left or right display edges (@julianchokkattu / Wired)

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