r/technology • u/anonskeptic5 • 7h ago

Security US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/php-cyber-vulnerability-openai-warning-01129058
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u/anonskeptic5 7h ago

This is what we were actually being warned about. AI harming anything on the internet.

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u/FabianN 6h ago

If you think AI is the problem in this situation, you grossly do not understand the situation.

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u/SilasTalbot 6h ago

And adversaries are not going to stop, so if commercial AI doesn't find the issues they will be found by China using AI and just never revealed and used for espionage.

Being blanket anti-AI is like being anti-electricity.

Okay...maybe there were advantages of life in the before times, and we're losing some of the things that were part of our shared culture and identity. But, there's no going back.

Resistance is futile. Discomfort is irrelevant. Borg knew what was up.