The scramble to save the internet from a catastrophic threat

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  Good morning.

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  The Guardian takes us inside the race to save the internet

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  after a major security threat was disclosed this week.

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  Everybody has been scrambling to try and determine if they're vulnerable.

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  It's been Europe, it's been Japan, it's been Canada, it's been America.

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  It's Friday, October 23rd.

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  I'm Cecilia Lay.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  Governments, businesses, and charities around the world spent yesterday

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  scrambling to protect their websites from hackers

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  after a major cyber vulnerability impacting roughly 70% of the internet was revealed.

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  It involves a widely used programming language called PHP,

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  which powers many websites and web services.

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  Robert Booth, The Guardian's technology editor,

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  told us how AI played a role in finding this critical security flaw.

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  People are probing these kind of code languages all the time

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  to try and work out if there are flaws in them.

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  And it's another one of these developments with the progress of AI

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