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Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
Website owners were told this week to immediately patch their sites against newly discovered vulnerabilities in the open source programming language PHP, or take the sites down if they could not update right away.

These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo's potential
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable iPhone.

9 Unique Apps to Try on the iPhone Duo
Apple’s first folding phone is inspiring indie developers to create fun, quirky apps that take advantage of the screen and the hinge. Here are a few to try as you explore the Duo.

Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public
A Valve employee mentioned the name “HLX” during a public panel this week, the first time anyone at the company has said the widely reported internal code name for its next Half-Life project in public.

PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web
Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity.

A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today
Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critical vulnerabilities that could wreak havoc on the internet if left unchecked.
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%
Chinese artificial intelligence developer MiniMax Group Inc. today released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper update to the M3 large language model it launched in June. The release takes aim at the cost of running AI agents, which often need dozens of model calls to finish a single job.

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

VBIOS on RTX cards can be modified without flashing thanks to a solo developer’s project
Flashing the VBIOS is risky and can brick a GPU, but this VBIOS configurator uses an Nvidia register key to override VBIOS settings without flashing.

Apple updates guidelines to ban nudify apps masquerading as regular apps to pass review
Apple has revised its App Store developer guidelines to prohibit apps that use artificial intelligence to generate offensive material, along with apps that pose as ordinary software to get through review and then add nudification features afterward.
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