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Websites around the world taken down after AI detects 'critical' flaw

Sky News Technology · Oct 21, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

Government and business websites around the world were taken down in a bid to protect organisations after a critical software update was issued over vulnerabilities in programming language.

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