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#Programmeren
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AI helped find decade-old security flaws in PHP, updates are available
Researchers at Wiz and Calif used AI models to help find two serious security flaws in PHP, the technology behind an estimated 70 per cent of websites. Updates came out on 21 October. Many organisations briefly took their sites offline as a precaution.
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Instruction file in the Downloads folder led an AI coding assistant to try to install malicious software
A security company stopped an AI coding assistant that was about to install malicious software, following instructions from a file in the Downloads folder. The researchers showed that it works with Codex and Claude Code, and give simple advice to prevent it.
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No need to take the AI's word for it: Claude delivers a mathematical proof for software
How do you know whether an AI's work is sound if nobody can read it all? Anthropic has Claude supply a mathematical proof that a small program checks step by step. This way Claude examined 123 widely used software building blocks and found hundreds of hidden bugs.
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Free coding model for the laptop was largely developed by AI itself
The AI company Recursive has released Flint, a free AI model that helps with programming and runs on an ordinary laptop. According to the company, its own research AI did a large part of the work: a first step towards AI that improves itself.
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Four AI agents finish Minecraft together using programs they wrote themselves
Four AI agents from Google DeepMind have finished Minecraft on their own. In just over 27 hours they shared out the work through chat, wrote 2,783 programs of their own and defeated the final boss. They played on easy mode, with software that tells them exactly what is around them.
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AI model Maxwell makes existing software faster while it runs
The Israeli company doubleAI presents Maxwell, an AI that rewrites programs while they run so that they go faster, without touching the source code. According to the company, one customer's computing costs fell by 67 per cent.
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Chinese company MiniMax releases fast and cheap AI model for agents
The Chinese AI company MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a model for AI agents that carry out tasks on their own. According to MiniMax, it is almost three times as fast as its predecessor and an agent task costs 70 per cent less. Independent tests will now follow.
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Gemini gets a real desktop app, with a shortcut to Google's programming agent
Google now has a Gemini app for Mac and Windows. Since 13 October, one button on the Mac also opens Antigravity, Google's AI programming environment. This gives Google its own answer to ChatGPT with Codex and Claude with Claude Code, although it is not yet all in one app.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open: a large AI model for programming that also runs on your own computers
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a large AI model for programming and independent agent tasks that anyone can download. According to Meta, it is the strongest American open model so far, and it even runs on two Mac Studios.
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Gemini 4 Argon widely available: Google back among the leaders
Google has rolled out Gemini 4 Argon widely. On paper it beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 19 benchmarks, but independent measurements put it alongside the competition, not above it. The biggest leap is in price, long context and science.
