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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Friday, October 23, 2026

Critical PHP Exploits Spark Global Cyber Panic and Precautionary Shutdowns

Critical vulnerabilities nicknamed PHP-to-Shell were discovered in the open-source coding language PHP, prompting a severity rating of 9.2 out of 10. Following an information leak, release schedules were accelerated, leading to widespread hacking attempts, government website shutdowns in Europe, and emergency patching.

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The tape

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“In august security researchers using ai found two one two critical exploits nicknamed php to shell php security team gave this a severity rating of 9.2 out of 10 basically defcon one for these security teams”
Heard on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — “AI Cyber Panic, Ken Griffin's Bubble Warning, The Fall of France?”, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Critical PHP Exploits Spark Global Cyber Panic and Precautionary Shutdowns — Heardvine