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Major PHP Vulnerability Discovered via OpenAI and Wiz Event Draws Attention

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The TechCrunch Equity podcast discussed a PHP vulnerability incident. During the Hack the Planet event jointly hosted by OpenAI and Wiz, a human researcher discovered a decades-old PHP vulnerability and exploited it with the help of AI. Affected websites were asked to patch the flaw immediately or temporarily go offline. The TechCrunch podcast discussed the incident, raising the question of whether this major vulnerability exposed the fragile underlying infrastructure of the internet. Current reports only cover the discovery and the requirement for websites to patch or go offline; there is no further news on subsequent fixes.

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    Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

    The TechCrunch Equity podcast discusses the PHP vulnerability incident: during OpenAI and Wiz's Hack the Planet event, a human researcher discovered a decades-old PHP vulnerability and leveraged it with AI, with websites told to patch immediately or temporarily go offline.

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