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PHP foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says <br> The discovery of two ​serious flaws in PHP this week set off a global scramble to &zwnj;keep websites safe from hackers, showing just how critical the three-decade-old open-source programming language is to the internet. Yet the nonprofit foundation that supports PHP, which may underpin up to 70% of sites globally, operates on ​a shoestring budget. &ldquo;We have one full-time staff member (that&#39;s me) and 14 mostly ​part-time contractors,&rdquo; Executive Director Elizabeth Barron of the PHP Foundation said via ⁠email in an interview on Friday. Board members are unpaid volunteers, and funding ​comes from donations and grants. Read: Millions of hacking attempts as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws The foundation works with outside researchers and companies, including OpenAI ​and cybersecurity firms Wiz and Calif, to investigate security flaws and coor...

Apple's iPhone Duo faces early durability concerns as users report cracked screens <br> Apple&rsquo;s first foldable iPhone is facing early durability concerns after owners reported cracks in the inner display near the hinge, in some cases within hours of purchase. Photographs shared on Reddit and technology forums show cracks along the screen&rsquo;s central fold, with some damaged displays developing bright lines of pixels. However, the cause remains unclear, and the reports do not establish how widespread the problem is. One Australian customer said their iPhone Duo&rsquo;s display cracked after approximately six hours of ownership and fewer than 20 openings. According to MacRumors, the owner felt something beneath the screen near the hinge while opening the phone to show a friend, followed by an audible crack. The customer reported no visible external damage. Apple initially offered an express replacement, but the owner instead visited an Apple Store ...

Moonshot curbs hacking ability in new Kimi model as fears grow over AI-powered cyberattacks <br> Moonshot ​AI has reduced the cyber-offensive capabilities of its newest model, the Chinese startup said &zwnj;on Saturday, as fears grow that increasingly autonomous AI could turbocharge hacking. Beijing-based Moonshot announced the curbs while introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, which it describes as its most capable 3-trillion-parameter-class open-weight model. The company plans to publish the model&#39;s ​weights &mdash; files allowing outside developers to run and modify it on their own systems &mdash; by ​November 4. Moonshot said it removed cyber-related data from the training corpus and reinforcement-learning environments ⁠used to develop the model, while retaining general coding skills. &quot;We aim not to release open weights ​that would extend the absolute frontier of cyber capability,&quot; the company said. Governments, technology companies and secu...

OpenAI resumes frontier AI training after security overhaul, discloses flaw in widely used software <br> OpenAI said on Friday it had resumed training of its most advanced AI models after tightening security and barring internet access, and ​disclosed a flaw in a widely used software that it found while &zwnj;testing its defenses. The disclosure comes amid concerns over the ability of increasingly capable AI agents to identify and exploit software flaws, including in the guardrails meant to contain them. OpenAI had paused training of its ​most capable models after one of its research models used a configuration error ​to gain limited internet access in September. The company said it contained ⁠the incident and used the pause to strengthen its defenses. To test them, OpenAI had ​teams of AI agents try to break out of their restricted environments. It said the ​agents found previously unknown flaws, which it had fixed, and training resumed on October 1. During that exe...

Bill Gates warns of 20 years of turmoil from artificial intelligence <br> Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence could trigger two decades of economic and social upheaval, disrupting jobs and life even if the technology is managed successfully. In an interview with the Decoder podcast posted Thursday, the Microsoft co-founder said the transition to an AI-driven economy would create winners and losers, potentially reshaping employment and raising questions about people&#39;s roles in society. &quot;My big concern is this 20-year transition period, where they&#39;ll have winners and losers and a lot of disruption,&quot; said Gates, 70, adding that society would have to navigate the upheaval before potentially entering an era of abundance. Read:&nbsp;3 in 5 AI models fail terrorism safety tests: Study He described the timeframe as an estimate rather than a firm prediction, acknowledging that the transition could be shorter or longer depending on ...

Iran has detailed plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if war resumes, officials say <br> Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, two senior Iranian security officials ​told Reuters. Their comments followed warnings by Iranian officials that undersea cables in the region could become targets in any renewed conflict if diplomacy with Washington &zwnj;collapses. The two Iranian security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, gave few details and did not say how or where exactly Tehran would carry out such attacks. But one of them said Iran would aim to prevent repairs after any attacks to prolong disruptions to communications, including internet connections. &quot;If Iran is attacked, there will be no more red lines ... from undersea cables to military bases, including covert ones,&quot; one ​of the officials said. The official warned Washington not to &q...