AI uncovers massive flaw in web's foundational code

AxiosOctober 21, 2026en

Security officials are sounding the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in a programming language used to run millions of websites, marking one of the most consequential cybersecurity discoveries yet made with AI. Why it matters : The bugs, which researchers found partly with an OpenAI model, proves AI can uncover critical flaws humans missed for decades — raising the stakes for defenders racing to fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them at machine speed. What's happening: There are two problems hackers could easily exploit in an open-source programming language known as PHP that's used on nearly 70% of all websites . Government officials from the U.S. to Japan are warning

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