Two AI-discovered PHP bugs prompt outages and precautionary shutdowns across major websites

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Two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which underpins much of the internet including WordPress-based sites, were found with the help of AI. The flaws caused disruptions today at sites such as 4chan, DeviantArt, and Wikipedia, along with smaller blogs. Some Dutch and Finnish government agencies took their websites offline as a precaution. The NSA's cybersecurity account on X and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre both advised organizations to disconnect systems if an immediate update was not feasible.

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