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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

2026-10-24 · WIRED

AI tools helped security researchers find ancient PHP vulnerabilities that humans missed for years — and then hackers used the same AI tricks to start exploiting them. Turns out giving everyone a turbo-charged bug finder means the bad guys get one too. Who could have possibly predicted that democratizing vulnerability discovery would go sideways?

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