AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

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The bug underlying the PHP2Shell vulnerability was reported to the PHP Foundation as far back as 2024. And AI, I think, has done a very good job at that.” –Suman Jana, Columbia University Earlier this year, the cybersecurity firm Calif offered to independently audit PHP, sponsored by OpenAI. Matthew Green, an associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, is less optimistic. “Nobody’s going to fix this problem until something really bad happens,” he says. “And PHP2Shell wasn’t bad enough to be really bad.

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