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PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out
If you’ve been online at all today, you’ve seen the panic: a critical vulnerability is threatening to “pwn” just about every website on the planet. Finland just started unplugging government websites on Wednesday, the NSA is recommending all organizations using PHP to shut down their sites, and the Netherlands and France did the same. And no, it wasn't a cyberwar. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. The culprit was PHP, a programming language most people have neve...
Oct 16, 2026
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Tesla Roadster Rocket Is the Cool 'Flying' Car You Can’t Have
Tesla's new Roadster drove up an upside-down ramp, flew off the end, flipped in midair, and landed on its wheels. The livestreamed demo took place October 15 at a SpaceX test site in Texas, where the car also hopped over a row of Teslas that included a Semi truck. The stunt drew oohs and aahs on social media, especially on X where the announcement gathered over 10 million views. Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth? Click to make your prediction. Even Musk’s former-friend-turned-foe Sam Altm...
Oct 16, 2026
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Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot
Security firm Calif.io demonstrated an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 on stage at Hexacon, the offensive security conference in Paris, on Friday. It's the first time an untethered, permanent jailbreak is successful in such devices. A jailbreak strips away Apple's software restrictions, and untethered means it comes back on its own after a restart, with no computer attached. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Apple builds...
Oct 16, 2026
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Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis
Recent revelations of thefts from tampered Ledger hardware wallets sparked some schadenfreude, after it was revealed that one of the biggest victims was a scammer who lost more than 60 BTC. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis revealed the transactions behind the theft, which saw some $4.8 million worth of Bitcoin stolen, in a tweet on Thursday. The Bitcoin came from a task scam, according to Chainalysis. People were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items, until a "negative balance" appea...
Oct 15, 2026
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Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Bottlenecks
Google says it has turned one of quantum computing's most promising paper tricks into something that actually works on a chip. In a paper published in Science on Thursday, the company's Quantum AI team showed that a technique called magic state cultivation cut errors by about 40 times on its Willow processor. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. Making quantum computers cheaper to build matters far beyond physics labs, because it brings forward the da...
Oct 14, 2026
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Solana Sets a Date for Its Next Major Upgrade
Solana has locked in October 21 for Alpenglow, a full replacement of the system its validators use to reach consensus. The switch is tied to epoch 1064, which the Solana Foundation expects to begin around 15:00 UTC that Wednesday. Alpenglow retires TowerBFT, the current system the network uses, and aims to make transactions final in roughly 150 milliseconds. Finality is the moment a transaction becomes irreversible, and under TowerBFT that currently takes about 12.8 seconds. Myriad: Where does S...