‘Tech debt coming due’: AI-found flaw signals chaos ahead

Then-U.S. cybersecurity soordinator Michael Daniel answers a question during an event in Washington in May 2014. | REUTERS

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Oct 25, 2026

Washington – Companies and government agencies rushed last 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 cybercapabilities.

Reporters spoke with Michael Daniel, president of the Cyber Threat Alliance and a onetime White House cybersecurity coordinator under former U.S. President Barack Obama, about what the episode means as AI tools find software flaws faster than ever.

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