WIRED reports that experts used AI to find PHP flaws. Cloudflare saw millions of attempts to use those flaws. The PHP Foundation had seen no successful attacks when the story ran.
Ben Thompson says Stripe is the new presenting sponsor of Stratechery. He also names a possible conflict for his coverage. A disclosure tells readers about the tie; it does not prove the sponsor has no influence.
Zvi Mowshowitz recounts an Internet Archive operator's account of AI-assisted PHP fixes. He argues that getting patches to users may be harder than finding flaws. One account cannot prove that pattern is widespread.
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