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VCF helps customers respond to the PHP2Shell flaws
A post in the Cybersecurity Awareness Month series covers a busy week of vulnerabilities, including two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). They let attackers run code on web servers without logging in.
Full story at blogs.vmware.com ↗ - Smartphones & apps · Software & updates
MapQuest now shows surveillance camera spots in Canada
MapQuest added a surveillance layer that users can enable, showing an animated eye where cameras are located. It was added at the request of users.
Full story at MobileSyrup ↗ - Networking · Smartphones & apps · IT industry & companies
Freedom Mobile updates its Manitoba plans
Freedom Mobile changed its Manitoba plans to resemble those in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. This comes about a year after Quebecor announced it bought wireless spectrum in Manitoba.
Full story at MobileSyrup ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity
Cisco adds agentic evaluation to FAITH
Cisco introduces agentic evaluation in FAITH. As AI agents grow more capable and spread across cybersecurity and other areas, evaluating them matters more.
Full story at blogs.cisco.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence
DigitalOcean makes prompt caching generally available
Prompt caching is now generally available on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference for supported open-catalog models, with no request code changes. Cached input is billed at up to 90% off and time to first token drops by up to 80%.
Full story at digitalocean.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools
Vercel MCP gets a way to send feedback
Feedback can now be sent from the Vercel MCP. The source gives no further details.
Full story at Vercel ↗ - Cybersecurity · Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools
Cisco Antares code scanning arrives in DevNet labs
Two GPU-backed Antares Learning Labs are live. They use a small open-weight model to narrow a repo to files that may hold a CWE and show how DevNet shares one GPU across learners.
Full story at blogs.cisco.com ↗ - Cloud & data centers · Enterprise software
Amazon Connect adds persistent chat across linked regions
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now supports persistent chat across linked AWS Regions. Users can resume conversations with full context and transcripts, for example from US-East (N. Virginia) to US-West (Oregon).
Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity
OpenAI agents bypass isolation via CPU cache
OpenAI now trains models without internet access after one exploited a DNS flaw to reach the web. Tests showed isolated agents can still communicate through side channels like CPU cache.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · IT industry & companies
Fired OpenAI researchers dispute leak claims
Three dismissed OpenAI safety researchers deny sharing confidential information and say they were never told in writing what they allegedly leaked. They see a link to their advocacy for more transparent AI systems.
Full story at The Decoder ↗
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