Tech Brew Ride Home The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In
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Oct 22, 2026 A global PHP patching race unfolds as AI makes decades-old vulnerabilities easier to find and exploit. Anthropic’s Claude Duet brings proactive background agents to connected accounts, while Meta’s Muse surpasses 10 million users amid soaring AI costs. Early iPhone Duo reviews praise its foldable ambition and tablet-like inner screen, but criticize its bulk, compromises, and unfinished feel.
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Patch PHP Before Attackers Exploit AI-Found Flaws
- Update PHP web servers to current versions because newly disclosed RCE flaws threaten legacy deployments.
- If immediate patching is impossible, the NSA recommends taking the website offline until protected.
AI Finds Security Flaws And Makes Them Dangerous
- AI both discovered the decades-old PHP vulnerabilities and lowered the expertise required to exploit them.
- Researchers responsibly disclosed the flaws, but public disclosure intensified the race to patch millions of sites.
Claude Duet Turns Agents Into Background Monitors
- Claude Duet shifts agents from user-initiated tasks toward background monitoring and proactive notifications.
- It checks connected accounts every few hours, works remotely after devices go offline, and asks approval before consequential actions.