Websites go offline across Europe as critical PHP security update is issued

Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web programming language, prompted a patch and reports that websites are going offline. Items describe the flaws as the most significant ever found by AI; the scale of the outages is not confirmed here.

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1. 22 Oct, 17:12 UTCFirst appeared on The Guardian
2. 24 Oct, 14:00 UTCPicked up on Google Trends

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