News Summary

• Artificial intelligence finds critical flaws in widely used programming language called PHP.
• PHP helps run about 70 percent of the world's websites -- from online stores and news outlets to government services.
• Government agency sites in countries from Australia to Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were among those that went dark.
• PHP programmers released a fix Wednesday, and the US National Security Agency told organizations to patch their sites immediately or pull vulnerable systems offline.
• The flaws had been reported privately to PHP's developers and kept confidential while a fix was prepared.