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How did AI discover the internet's massive cyber-security risk?

ByTom Gerken and Liv McMahon, Technology reporters
  • Published29 minutes ago

Organisations and businesses are still scrambling to update their systems after cyber-security flaws were revealed in a widely-used programming language, PHP.

Websites around the world were taken offline on Wednesday and Thursday after the developers of PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" were found in the back-end language, used in web development for decades.