The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In
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The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202622 min
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PHP-aggedon kept rolling, with patches covering only PHP 8.2 and newer. Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive background agent. Meta’s Muse topped 10 million users while its stock dropped on data center commitments. iPhone Duo reviews landed, Gruber scathing. The PHP Foundation says its patches for the RCE vulnerabilities are limited to PHP 8.2 and newer, leaving legacy deployments dependent on third-party vendors (Wired) PHP-aggedon: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Google’s Wiz, with its Atlas agent and Gemini 4 Argon, found the decades-old flaws, which AI makes both findable and newly easy to exploit, so the race is on to patch...

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Welcome to The Tech We Write Home for Thursday, October 22nd, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. PHP Agedden kept rolling with patches covering only PHP 8.2 and newer. Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive background agent. Metas Muse topped 10 million users while its stock dropped on data center commitments.

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The iPhone Duo reviews landed with John Gruber of all people being the most negative. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Oh my pod! That's what you might say when you're first introduced to the Pod by 8Sleep.

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