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The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch
The bugs left sites across the web scrambling to apply a fix.
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The bugs left sites across the web scrambling to apply a fix.
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With the new profile links feature, you can make buttons for links that sit above your posts. Links to payment platforms will be green. Here’s what a couple of the buttons look like on my profile. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-9.40.53-AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]
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Instead, their money went to a political action committee that funneled the money to the reelection campaign of Colorado’s Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper. According to The Atlantic: > The mix-up wasn’t all AI’s fault. The link led to a misleading donation page that carried Talarico’s name and picture, and specified only at the bottom that the money would go to Hickenlooper. But Google’s AI tool evidently didn’t read the fine print. And perhaps no one would have clicked on it had Google not highlighted the page in an authoritative-sounding AI response.
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‘There’s no humanity behind it.‘
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According to Axios, banks have detected AI agents accessing customer accounts and taking actions, sometimes without clear authorization or instruction. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have started to restrict or block some third-party access because of it. But more concerning, it seems the banks just don’t know what AI agents are doing or why: > One bank executive told Axios they struggle to differentiate between agents, as well as whether an agent has been authorized by a user or has gone rogue and gained access to a customer account.
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Pichai allegedly said, “Oceans are different, sir.”
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A key part of Microsoft’s hacker culture is going away
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Apple also had a record lobbying quarter.
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It was pretty obvious from the show’s finale, but now it’s official: Mike Flanagan is making a second season of his Carrie remake on Prime Video. “From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom, and I’m incredibly grateful for Stephen [King]’s trust and support in exploring what comes next,” Flanagan said in a statement. [Link: Amazon’s Carrie is a cyberbullying nightmare | https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1002835/carrie-review-amazon-prime-video | The Verge]
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They have 90-day warranties, but are “pristine.”
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Decades-old vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language have put the internet on high alert.
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Lego and Daft Punk have revealed a new collaboration that will include an upcoming set based on the pyramid stage design from the duo’s 2007 Alive concert tour. The Daft Punk Concert set was originally submitted to the Lego Ideas platform in 2020 by a father-son duo from Belgium, according to Variety, but has finally been approved for production by Lego after amassing 10,000 supporters. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5rwOE3zpc8]