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'Tech Debt Coming Due': AI-found Flaw Signals Chaos Ahead

Companies and government agencies rushed this week to patch two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the world's websites. The vulnerability to potential hackers was found by using a powerful model from OpenAI in one of the most high-profile demonstration of AI's cyber capabilities. AFP spoke with Michael Daniel, president of the Cyber Threat Alliance and a former White House cybersecurity coordinator under former US president Barack Obama, about what the episode means as AI tools find software flaws faster than ever.

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