Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it’s unlikely to be the last major software scare.
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitorin…
GMO Internet Group has asked Japan’s government to use its new active cyber defence powers against hackers who breached one of its services. The company made the request on Saturday, after the attackers demanded money. In a stock exchange filing on Sat…
Disruption of foreign tech through disinformation, cyberattacks, and sabotage could be the future of this new Pentagon office.
US police are using an AI tool to detect the location of properties based on interior photos, but the way tool accumulates its data drawn concern from Airbnb, Zillow, and others
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot […]
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its open-weight Kimi K3, with full weights due by 4 November. It says the model nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on a coding test. Moonshot also says it removed hacking-related training data to …
The php2shell flaw affects more than just websites and web apps and some of these manufacturers were apparently caught off guard.
The PHP Project provides instructions to stop further RCE exploits in limited settings.