Agents and Exploits
Anthropic ships a proactive agent, Meta owes New Mexico $25 billion, and a PHP flaw takes websites offline.
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Meta owes New Mexico $25 billion after a judge ordered the penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law, following a jury finding that Meta misled consumers in the Cambridge Analytica case. The award far exceeds the $5 billion FTC fine from 2019 against Facebook.
Why it matters A state-level penalty of this size shows privacy cases from years ago can still carry very large financial consequences for tech companies.
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Critical PHP flaws knock sites offline as maintainers released patches for two severe vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated remote code execution, with exploits already published and some site owners warned to pull unpatched sites offline in a language used by about 70% of websites.
Why it matters Any unpatched server running PHP is exposed to takeover, so administrators need to update or take sites offline right away.
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Australia orders Apple to open up the iPhone to rival app stores, direct downloads and alternative payment services from March 1, 2027, following a court finding that Apple misused its market power. Apple says it will appeal, and Fortnite is already back on the Australian App Store.
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PHP bugs were exploited early, with Amazon Web Services logging attempts four days before the patches landed on the two flaws collectively called PHP2Shell. OpenAI says its GPT-5.6 Sol found them, and Wiz independently found the same flaw using Google's Gemini 4 Argon.
Why it matters AI models are now finding critical vulnerabilities at scale, which shortens the time defenders have to respond before attackers catch up.
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