Websites taken down worldwide as critical PHP security update issued after AI-discovered flaws
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 22 October 2026
Transformative AI
Government and corporate websites across several countries went offline on 21 October after the PHP Foundation disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the programming language and issued emergency fixes.
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