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A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today

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Critical PHP vulnerabilities prompt emergency patches affecting up to 70% of websites

Developers issued emergency security updates for PHP after researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol discovered critical vulnerabilities that could affect as much as 70% of the world's websites. Multiple governments took sites offline as a precaution.

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Critical PHP vulnerabilities prompt emergency patches affecting up to 70% of websites
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