AI-assisted PHP flaw discoveries prompt a fix and precautionary website shutdowns

OpenAI says Calif used GPT-5.6 Sol to identify a critical PHP flaw; Wiz independently reported both vulnerabilities. New Scientist describes memory errors that could expose private data or allow malicious code to run. AFP reports an Oct. 21 fix and government sites going dark in Australia, Finland and the Netherlands. AFP says only sites running PHP on their own servers are exposed; Dimitrios Salampasis told AFP shutdowns do not necessarily mean hacking.