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PHP 5.4+ flaws: public exploits emerge for two critical engine bugs
Two critical PHP engine flaws affect PHP 5.4 and later, and public exploits are available. Vercel says its firewall blocks attempts; patched releases include 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12.

Claude API 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k controls
Claude API version 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k and tightens message validation. New SDK major versions and the ant CLI default to it, while 2023-06-01 remains supported.

Claude Security adds continuous scanning for changed repository code
Claude Security now rescans changed code, verifies fixes and reopens recurring findings. The Enterprise public beta also adds editable threat models, cross-repository projects and API access.


PHP 5.4+ flaws: public exploits emerge for two critical engine bugs
Two critical PHP engine flaws affect PHP 5.4 and later, and public exploits are available. Vercel says its firewall blocks attempts; patched releases include 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12.

Recursive releases 40B-parameter Flint for local coding agents
Recursive released Flint, an Apache-2.0 coding model with 40B parameters and 2.5B active per token. The company reports over 125 tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro at short contexts.

Railway users report blocked deployments after environment secrets are compromised
Railway users report compromised environment variables and drained API keys. Theo says blocked deployments prevented key rotation, forced three services offline and lasted over 17 hours.

Claude API 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k controls
Claude API version 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k and tightens message validation. New SDK major versions and the ant CLI default to it, while 2023-06-01 remains supported.
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an Opus 5.5 proactive agent
SemiAnalysis says DeepInfer supports only offline, single-turn inference
Cohere releases Rerank 5 with Context Focus passage selection
Claude Security adds continuous scanning for changed repository code
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Vercel releases durable-harness to resume coding agents after failures
Vercel releases an open-source harness that makes existing coding-agent setups resumable after failures. Adapters support Vercel or self-hosted infrastructure without tying execution to one runtime.


DeepSeek releases DeepInfer serving engine for V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek releases DeepInfer under Apache 2.0 for V4.1 Flash on Blackwell or Ascend hardware. The engine exposes techniques such as speculative decoding but omits some serving components.

OpenAI extends API prompt caching to 12 hours
OpenAI adds 12-hour API prompt caching that can be mixed with the 30-minute default in one request. It also announces permanent cache reuse for logged-in Codex and Work users.

Perplexity Computer adds local execution on Macs with PPLX Pro
Perplexity Computer adds local model and agent execution on Macs using the Qwen-derived PPLX Pro model. Local tasks use no Computer credits, while 36 GB of unified memory is recommended.

FastVideo claims FastH3 Omni cuts video generation latency 12×
FastVideo releases FastH3 Omni weights and training code, claiming 12× lower latency than base MiniMax-H3. The comparison covers 27 matched workloads on eight GB200 GPUs, and ComfyUI support is available.







