PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert

PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert

Swati KhandelwalOctober 21, 2026Vulnerability/Web Security PHP will submit an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but did not describe. Security researchers at watchTowr say the two flaws allow remote code execution. Only the four supported PHP branches, … Read more

Colts To Contact Peyton Manning About GM Job?

Colts To Contact Peyton Manning About GM Job?

The Colts fired veteran general manager Chris Ballard on Monday, putting them in the market for a new football operations leader for the first time since 2017. There are several paths the Colts could take to find Ballard’s replacement, including entrusting the role to someone with no managerial experience. Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning, … Read more

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Ammonite fossils preserved in limestone. These fossil deposits help scientists understand biodiversity throughout Earth’s history. Credit: Herve Conge/Science Photo Library Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are trained to recognize patterns in written text, helping them choose a statistically likely word to complete a sentence. Paleontologists have now trained a similar model with … Read more

Australian researchers identify new subtype of depression linked to body clock disruptions | Depression

Australian researchers identify new subtype of depression linked to body clock disruptions | Depression

Australian researchers have identified a new subtype of depression – termed “circadian depression” – linked to disruptions in the body’s internal clock, which they believe is less responsive to traditional antidepressant treatments.In a study published in British Journal of Psychiatry, involving clinical and genetic data from 11,380 Australians with mostly severe and recurrent depression, researchers … Read more

Boeing’s 737 Max 10 finally wins FAA approval after years of delays

Boeing's 737 Max 10 finally wins FAA approval after years of delays

Nearly a decade after Boeing introduced its largest 737 Max plane, the company has cleared a major hurdle in its effort to bring the plane to airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday approved the Max 10 for passenger service, ending years of delays. The certification of the 737 Max 10 represents another milestone in … Read more

France is divided over who to blame for weekend riots

France is divided over who to blame for weekend riots

Belgium is also experiencing violent protests in recent days. On Tuesday, Belgian Interior Minister Bernard Quintin warned of the ‘TikTokization’ of violence. Images of the riots are widely shared on social media, reaching a large audience of impressionable young people, he said, while blaming the violence on the streets of Brussels and Liège on “well-known … Read more

Stock market today: Live updates

Stock market today: Live updates

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on October 19, 2026. NYSEU.S. Stock futures rose Tuesday night as traders weighed the latest round of earnings reports. Futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 21 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 futures gained 0.3% and Nasdaq-100 futures added 0.8%. In Asia, … Read more