What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline? NYT - Top Stories By: Karla Adam and Dustin Volz 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/ReutersA 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 NYT - Top Stories By: Dustin Volz 21 October 2026 at 20:04 The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed. © Annegret Hilse/ReutersThe 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.