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00:02Government websites across Europe went offline Wednesday after researchers uncovered critical vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language using
00:10artificial intelligence, according to Reuters.
00:12PHP developers released urgent security fixes and urged users to update immediately as hackers began exploiting the flaws.
00:19Cybersecurity experts warned that AI could accelerate attacks on vulnerable servers.
00:23According to Census, about 1.5 million of 2.6 million hosts run PHP versions with no available fix.
00:30Government agencies in the Netherlands, Finland, and France took websites offline as a precaution.
00:35Wikipedia and the Internet Archive also reported disruptions.
00:39PHP powers roughly 75% of websites with identifiable programming languages, including sites built on WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.
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