2026-10-23 01:35 UTC
The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday
On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity researchers using a frontier model from OpenAI. If they exploited it, attackers could gain full control of servers, stealing or copying anything inside or simply taking sites offline.
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@404found@lemmy.zip 2026-10-23 02:32
Just seems likely with AI and terrorist groups. If it’s not hacked then couldn’t the internet cables in the ocean just be destroyed?
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@404found@lemmy.zip 2026-10-23 01:37
Is it just a matter of time until the internet goes offline?
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@Jack@lemmy.ca 2026-10-23 05:24
“But the reason it was not crazy for me was that I actually don’t have any system running PHP myself.” - Ondřej Surý
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@AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2026-10-23 06:46
Saved the Internet Yeah… this appears to have been overblown.
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@random_character_a@lemmy.world 2026-10-23 08:54
Internet is dead and after this AI shit ramps up to full speed, even the dead remains will become useless.