AI Helped Discover the PHP Vulnerability That Could Take Down 70% of the Internet - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #121
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| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 121 · 17 STORIES |
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AI Helped Discover the PHP Vulnerability That Could Take Down 70% of the Internet
The PHP Foundation disclosed two critical vulnerabilities and issued an emergency patch, and Fortune credits OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol with a key role in finding them. Cloudflare says it is already seeing early attacks, and the open question is whether enough sites patch first. |
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