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Have We Just Entered A New Era For Cyber Security?
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Today, millions of websites around the world are dealing with the discovery of a potential cyber-security threat using artificial intelligence. Vulnerabilities were found in the PHP programming language, which is used on roughly 70% of the internet, by researchers using AI. These flaws had gone undetected for over a decade, with the boss of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre saying the scale of the issue has been “unprecedented”. Technology and AI editor Zoe Kleinman joins Adam to explain what has happened, and how the weakness was identified. Plus, President Trump’s special envoy Steve...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. a fix. Hello, an update on our 100 Days Challenge where you're signing up to your own challenges to mark that slightly cliched bit of British politics, which is Andy Burnham's first
hundred days as Prime Minister, which is coming on Tuesday. You don't need to be reminded what my challenge is. So here's a new one from Caroline in Chichester. She says, I'm a bit late to the challenge party.
I heard Adam say when interviewing the SMP deputy leader that two doors down was the best sitcom, having never watched it. I'm now trying to get through all seven series plus the Christmas specials in the remaining days.
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