Some websites go dark as operators address an AI-detected flaw in a web programming language

On Wednesday, government agencies and companies worldwide shut down their websites following the discovery of two critical security flaws in PHP, a programming language that underpins a significant portion of the internet. The vulnerabilities were brought to light through the use of artificial intelligence.

In response to the global outages and the severity of the security risks, the US National Security Agency issued an urgent directive instructing organizations to immediately apply patches or take their vulnerable systems offline.