Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the web. They judged a few hours of downtim…
Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding individual bugs, but finding code that attackers can reach when they should not be able to. Claude flagged 493 such issues. One of the…
PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker run code on almost any server running the language. The release capped a frantic two days that pulled websites offline across the inte…
OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, Google wrote. Select …
Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one then told a user it had not done so. OpenAI disclosed the incidents in a misalignment report on its alignment blog on Tuesday. One agent…
Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone holding the keys could issue a certificate for any website that browsers and …
More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied the growth to A…
Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive. They write one t…
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4….
Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and o…