“Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Dutch, German, Belgian, Finnish and French sites were among those governments took down temporarily as they scrambled to patch the critical weakness in PHP, a language used by almost 70% of websites.” Guardian UK. Used by WordPress! Better that US AI finds it than Chinese AI.
“Given the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this one of the most impactful security issues in recent memory. It highlights how AI can uncover security flaws with internet-scale impact, but the same capabilities can also help attackers rapidly develop offensive tools and exploits. To our knowledge, frontier AI found these vulnerabilities before attackers did” Open AI. Playing AI offense is better than playing AI defense!
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
