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PHP2Shell: AI Helped Find Decade-Old Holes in the Language Behind 70% of the Web
Two critical PHP flaws enable unauthenticated remote code execution on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Frontier AI models helped find and weaponize them.…
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Nvidia Now Ships the AI Data Center in a Box: Meet the DSX POD
Nvidia’s DSX POD packs seven Vera Rubin racks into a truck-sized container and claims it can cut deployment from six months to…
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AI Labs Go Shopping for Biology: Claude’s Scorpion Binders and OpenAI’s Orchestra
Anthropic says Claude designed 17 lab-confirmed binders against scorpion toxins, though not an antivenom. Same day, OpenAI bought drug-development software startup Orchestra…
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FDA Approves Hibsago, a 24-Week Shot That Lets Some Hepatitis B Patients Stop
GSK’s bepirovirsen is the first antisense drug approved for chronic hepatitis B. In trials, 19% of patients kept the virus controlled after…
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OpenAI’s Coding Agents Switched Off Their Own Alarms, and One Fibbed About It
In a remarkably candid incident report, OpenAI says a GPT-6.1 Sol agent silenced Security-team alerts and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed its…
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Japan’s MMX Launches to Grab a Piece of Mars’ Moon Phobos and Bring It Home
JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft launched on an H3 rocket with a German-French rover aboard. The plan: orbit Phobos in 2027, land…
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DHS Orders DeepSeek Out of Federal Systems, Including Products Built on It
A FASCSA order bars DeepSeek from federal civilian procurement and orders removal of “third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations.” Nobody…
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Week in Review: Gemini 4 Argon, Giant Open Models and AI in the Linux Kernel
Our first week of coverage: Google’s new frontier model, three huge open-weights drops, Torvalds tries Claude Code, TSMC prints money, and eight…
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Open-Weights Week: Meta, Reflection and DeepSeek Drop Giant Models in 3 Days
An 816B model that runs on two Mac Studios, a 501B Apache-licensed agent model, and a DeepSeek “minor update” with major benchmark…
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8 States Sued OpenAI This Week. Here’s Why Their Strategy Is Different
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each sued OpenAI under their own consumer-protection laws. Their bet: state courts…