The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad

The iPhone Duo's $2,000 first-generation compromises, and AI agents' ability to both find critical web vulnerabilities and break commerce norms at scale, signal rapid but messy platform shifts.

• Duo scored a 7: David and Nilay debated the iPhone Duo's score after it rose from a 6 to 7 over one review week as more apps updated for iOS 27.1's Duo-specific layout, though at $2,000 with a small cover screen, hot-running hardware, Touch ID instead of Face ID, and handoff/eSIM limited to T-Mobile only.
• PHP vulnerability exposed ~70% of web: Wiz Research and ChainGuard used AI prompted simply to 'find bad vulnerabilities in PHP,' discovering memory-exhaustion flaws letting attackers gain full server control; Cloudflare's Matthew Prince reported millions of exploit attempts already.

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