Flash: Websites around the world have been taken offline after two critical security flaws were found in PHP, the programming language that powers much of the Internet.

Flash: Websites around the world have been taken offline after two critical security flaws were found in PHP, the programming language that powers much of the Internet.

A correction was posted Wednesday afternoon.

Cyber ​​security agencies called on organizations that failed to update in time to take down their websites.

Finland shut down its government's public internet services, and Dutch agencies and the lower house of parliament also went offline.

Wikimedia has taken down several systems, reducing access to parts of Wikipedia.

The defects were found with the help of AI, through an OpenAI program called Patch the Planet.

Security firm Wiz called them "the most serious vulnerabilities ever discovered" by AI.

The insects were not discovered for more than a decade.

Details leaked on social media on Tuesday, forcing an early announcement. The White House called the discovery "American innovation strengthens our national security."