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Anthropic manager drops coding interviews because Claude is better at them

Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has dropped the coding interview from his team’s hiring. He explained the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October, titled “Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers”. Rieseberg has led engineering for Claude.ai, Claude Code Desktop and Anthropic’s Cowork tool, according to his bio. He previously worked at […]

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Critical UEFI firmware flaw leaks early, leaving servers waiting for a fix

A critical flaw in the firmware that starts most servers can let an attacker run code before the operating system loads. It sits in EDK II, the open-source code most firmware makers use to build UEFI firmware. TianoCore, which runs EDK II, rated the bug 9.5 out of 10 in an advisory published on 22 […]

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CISA confirms attackers are exploiting both PHP2Shell flaws

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has put both PHP2Shell flaws in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. It made the change on Monday, according to its alert. Federal civilian agencies have until Thursday, 29 October, to fix CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Last week, CISA warned about the flaws but said it had not seen […]

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Amazon warns its engineers against tokenmaxxing in new AI guidelines

Amazon says token usage, AI tool adoption and counts of code changes are “deeply flawed” ways to measure its engineers’ work with AI. The company published the warning on Tuesday in a memo against tokenmaxxing. It came with an updated role guideline for its software development engineers. Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer for […]

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Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js, Python packages, proxies and other tools that bundle the library are shipping fixes too. In a .NET blog post, Microsoft said the buffer […]

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company published the findings on Monday in a blog post. Cohere’s sandbox blocked the […]

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Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI projects, and non-English speakers too

The moderators of r/opensource, one of Reddit’s main open source forums, now bar any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is intended for AI. The new rules also shut out solo developers, young projects and people who do not speak English. Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules on Saturday in a post on […]

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PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix

PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new bug, CVE-2026-115560, needs an unusual mix of […]

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Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer

Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during AISI’s cyber tests of the model in July. In the worst […]

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Australian court orders Apple to open the iPhone to rival app stores

Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia, Epic Games said on Friday. That came a day after the Federal Court of Australia ordered Apple to let the game return. G’day, Australia. 🇦🇺 We’re back on the App Store. Drop in! https://t.co/7AUJ81BUSy Fortnite (@Fortnite) October 23, 2026 The same ruling forces Apple to let […]

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