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What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?

22 October 2026 at 16:55
A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

© Vincent West/Reuters

A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.

A.I. Discovered a Critical Vulnerability in PHP, a Coding Language Behind Many Websites

21 October 2026 at 20:04
The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.

© Annegret Hilse/Reuters

The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.
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