Government websites in Europe, elsewhere go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble

Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems. Developers of the PHP programming language on Wednesday released urgent new fixes to vulnerabilities that had quietly been lurking in their software
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- Tech
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- AI & gadgets
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- The Tribune India
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- reuters
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- Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 11:28 pm IST
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