Dev News Digest: 26 Oct 2026, 06:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Security & releases

• PHP patches two critical RCE flaws already under attack: Two remote code execution bugs in PHP were fixed after being exploited in the wild, so patching affected servers is urgent. InfoQ
• Google and Meta open-source TorchTPU: Announced at PyTorch Conference 2026, it lets native PyTorch code run on TPUs without a separate framework. InfoQ
• Google ML Drift speeds up on-device inference: The new GPU inference engine targets many different GPUs, aiming to make on-device AI faster across hardware. InfoQ

AI & tooling

• Why LLM prices dropped by up to 80%: Max Woolf looks at how OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices so sharply within months and what is behind it. minimaxir
• The state of context engineering: Drew Breunig surveys the techniques used to manage what goes into an LLM's context window. dbreunig.com
• IBM CEO: open-weight models are now cheap on-prem: He argues open-weight models have become good enough that running them in-house is increasingly attractive. The Register
• "AI skills" are worthless in 2026: An essay arguing that specific AI tool know-how ages quickly and fundamentals matter more. Fishbowl
• Apollo economist: AI shows little financial payoff for most firms: A skeptical take on the measurable returns companies are seeing from AI spending. TechCrunch

Web & languages

• Dropping Next.js got a blog to 100 on Lighthouse: A developer reports perfect Lighthouse scores after moving a blog off Next.js, a reminder of framework overhead for simple sites. Blog post
• The Goose programming language: A new language project gets a write-up and discussion on Lobsters. Goose

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