Thirty-two government services are unavailable (and four are partially down) amid the PHP cyber security crisis.
Tech Minister Baroness Lloyd has been updating the House of Lords on the coding attack – governments are taking down systems as a precaution after a set of AI agents uncovered a critical weakness in PHP code. No10 said it would “identify and fix potential exposures to our systems and our experts are continuing to work closely with both OpenAI and international partners on this issue. But this does not mean they were hacked, and work continues to resolve any issues.” Critical systems need to catch up, pronto…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”