AI Helps Find and Fix Critical Flaw in PHP Before Attackers Do

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers at OpenAI, Wiz and Calif say they used AI to find two serious flaws in PHP, a coding language behind roughly seventy percent of websites, CNN reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd they fixed it before anyone bad got in. I'm sorry, I'm fine, I just think that's the most beautiful thing I've heard all week.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe bugs were found in late August and kept quiet until PHP had a patch ready. Then they went public.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWeeks of people keeping a secret just to protect strangers. Hank, that's a surprise party for the whole internet.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOpenAI says it led a two-month coalition of maintainers, researchers and security providers to get the fixes ready.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo months. Of group chats. About a patch.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe National Security Agency is asking everyone who runs PHP to update, or take the system offline if they can't.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe National Security Agency said please. I've waited my whole life for the government to say please.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo go update something, everybody, and when you press that button, know that it loves you back.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a button.