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| • 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 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
• 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 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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• 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 (Wired)
• Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development (Will Knight/Wired)
• Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• 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 (The PHP Foundation)
• Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws (Reuters)
• 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 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
• 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)
• Mach9, which develops AI-powered CAD software trained on proprietary, in-house AI models using multimodal image and laser scan datasets, raised a $34M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
• 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 (Cloudflare)
• 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 (Chris Rohlf/Anthropic)
• 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 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
• PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, affecting all web request-serving installations, and urges PHP users to update (PHP)
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