Update: Microsoft Says the ConnectWise Breach Hit 2,250 Cloud Tenants
Update to my earlier ConnectWise post. Microsoft says a China-linked group it tracks as Storm-0940 used compromised ConnectWise app credentials and AI agents to go after…
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Apple Reportedly Boosts iPhone Duo Orders 44% to 14 Million
DigiTimes reports Apple raised its iPhone Duo order from about 9.7 million to 14 million units, a 44% jump, after strong pre-orders. The quick version The…
PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution. Patch Today
If you run anything on PHP, and that includes every WordPress site out there, stop what you’re doing. On October 21 the PHP team shipped emergency…
Anthropic Launches Claude Duet, a Proactive Agent That Reaches Out First
Anthropic just introduced Claude Duet, its answer to Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots. It’s a proactive agent that “reaches out before you ask.” What it does…
Omarchy’s Agent-Run QA Starts Testing Nightly Builds Every Day
Omarchy QA is about to get real. ThePrimeagen, who joined Omarchy Core in September to lead agentic QA, posted “Big Omarchy QA News” on X: Omarchy…
NVIDIA Woos Europe With More Open-Weight Models
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA added more open-weight models to its library, pitched at Europe’s appetite for sovereign AI. What’s new Refreshed Nemotron Retriever embedding, parsing and…
IBM’s CEO: Open-Weight Models Are Now ‘Irresistibly’ Good and Cheap On-Prem
On IBM’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Arvind Krishna made the case that open-weight models now make total sense for running AI on your own hardware. What…
Mesa Loosens Its AGENTS.md Rules for AI-Drafted Comments and Commits
The Mesa graphics project changed its AGENTS.md so AI can help draft code comments and commit messages, as long as a human reviews and edits the…
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme on Linux Beats Expectations in First Benchmarks
Phoronix has the first Linux benchmarks of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, using the new Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept ISO on an ASUS Zenbook A16. The…
Linus Kills the Unsafe __get_user() and __put_user() in Linux 7.4, With a Little Help From Claude
Linus Torvalds merged his own branch removing the old __get_user() and __put_user() kernel functions for Linux 7.4. Why it matters They’re the faster but unchecked versions…