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PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

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21 Oct
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21 Oct
OpenAI is taking credit for finding the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, but now someone has to apply all these patches, www.theverge.com/tech/1015906...

OpenAI is taking credit for finding the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, but now someone has to apply all these patches, www.theverge.com/tech/1015906...

OPINION · WHAT · The VergeOPEN STORY
22 Oct
PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity.

REPORT · WHAT · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
22 Oct
PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (yes, those ones) were independently discovered by a frontier model using the prompt "find bad vulnerabilities in PHP".

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OPINION · HOW · singularityOPEN STORY
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