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PHP2Shell Timeline: From a Quiet August Report to a Leak, Early Attacks and a Day-Early Patch

Two months of coordinated work unravelled in about 24 hours. Who found the PHP bugs, how the details got out, and what each source says about attacks and breaches.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

Bundles of blue network cables fanned out across a patch panel in a wiring cabinet, photographed on 21 November 2017, a file photograph illustrative of network cabling and not of any system attacked

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Giant Canyon on Mars Is Still Tectonically Active, Study of a 2021 Marsquake Finds

Re-reading a quake NASA's InSight lander recorded in 2021, researchers place it in an ancient fault under Valles Marineris and say the planet's crust still breaks along old scars.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

A view of Mars with the Valles Marineris canyon system running across the middle of the globe, assembled from Viking 1 Orbiter images taken on 22 February 1980, a file image of the canyon and not related to the 2021 marsquake itself

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Japan Launches MMX to Bring Back the First Samples From Mars' Moon Phobos

A five-agency mission lifted off from Tanegashima before dawn on Tuesday, and will reach Mars in 2027 and aim to return at least 10 grams of Phobos soil to Earth in 2031.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

An H3 rocket rising on a column of flame and smoke from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, photographed on 2 February 2025 during the launch of a different payload, a file photograph illustrative of the H3 and the launch site and not of the MMX launch

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Judge Orders Meta to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Users on Data Privacy

The state judge cut a theoretical $219 billion tally to $25 billion for 43 million violations, with 15 percent interest running while Meta appeals the largest penalty it has faced.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

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PHP2Shell: WordPress, Magento, Drupal and the Hosts and Sites Caught in the Blast

Researchers confirmed code execution on a long list of PHP apps, some governments and hosts pulled services offline, and one count has about 884,000 hosts advertising end-of-life PHP.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

Racks of servers with blue status lights in the computer server room at the NOIRLab headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, uploaded on 5 October 2022, a file photograph illustrative of web servers and not of any host or site named in the story

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Recursive Releases Flint, a Free Coding Model That Runs on a Laptop and Was Largely Built by AI

Richard Socher's lab says its automated research system did most of the work on a 40-billion-parameter model that activates 2.5 billion at a time and ships under Apache 2.0.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

A blue tablet-style laptop with a detachable keyboard and a pen resting in front of it, its screen showing a landscape lock screen, photographed on 10 October 2024, a file photograph illustrative of a laptop and not of Flint or any Recursive product

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Walmart Opens an Agent Gateway for AI Shoppers as Amazon Keeps Blocking Them

A new MCP server lets approved AI agents search and buy at Walmart and Sam's Club, with per-agent profiles and spending limits, a sharp contrast with Amazon's closed door.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

The brown brick front of a Walmart Supercenter in Laurel, Maryland, with the company name on the wall above a car park with cars and a bare tree, photographed on 30 October 2010, a file photograph illustrative of a Walmart store and not of the Agent Gateway

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US Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek From Their Systems, Including Tools Built on It

Homeland Security has used a supply-chain security law for the first time against an AI company, barring civilian agencies from buying or running DeepSeek and anything built on it.

Oct 22, 2026/2 min read

Guests seated outdoors in front of a brick building on the St. Elizabeths campus in Washington during the opening ceremony of the Department of Homeland Security's new headquarters, photographed on 10 April 2019, a file photograph of the department and not of this week's order

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PHP2Shell Explained: Two Critical PHP Flaws That Can Hand Over a Server

PHP's own engine, not any one app, carries two memory bugs rated CVSS 9.2. Here is what they do, which versions are hit and what the patched releases fix.

Oct 22, 2026/3 min read

PHP source code in a dark-themed code editor, with class methods and string replacement calls visible, a screenshot from 11 February 2017 of MediaWiki code, a file image illustrative of PHP code and not of the vulnerable code

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Astronomers Say a Pulsar's Odd Slowdown Is Explained by a Hidden Sunlike Star, Making It a Rare Stellar Trio

China's FAST radio telescope tracked the millisecond pulsar for nearly five years. A distant star's pull seems to account for much of why it appeared to spin down so fast.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

The 500-metre FAST radio telescope dish in its forested karst valley in Guizhou, China, photographed on 10 August 2025, a file photograph of the telescope that observed the pulsar and not from this week

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS May Have Lost Metres of Its Surface to the Sun, a New Estimate Finds

Two Michigan State astronomers added up every measured gas and dust loss and estimate the nucleus shed from under two metres to more than ten. The layers may have been cooked or stripped.

Oct 21, 2026/2 min read

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with its tail in the night sky over trees near Lysekil, Sweden, photographed on 15 October 2024, a file photograph of a different comet and not of 3I/ATLAS