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PHP2Shell: AI found a 14-year-old hole in the web's favourite language, and attackers moved in minutes

Two critical PHP flaws let a single request take over a server. Frontier models helped find them, and the same speed is now on the attackers' side. Here is what to patch today.

CyberOctober 25, 20264 min read

Claude Code stops waiting on slow tools: MCP Tasks and mid-job questions land in the CLI

Long MCP tool calls can now run as background tasks that report back, and servers can stop to ask you something halfway through. Here is what works today, what does not, and how to try it.

AI toolsOctober 25, 20265 min read