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US and European websites go offline over security concerns
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A cyber security flaw has prompted governments in Finland and the Netherlands and websites such as Wikipedia and the BBC to go completely dark temporarily. The flaws in a programming language were discovered by AI. PHP is a scripting language that powers 70 per cent of all websites in the world. Also: Three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States are scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi next month to try to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. We hear about an Iranian prisoner who went to extraordinary lengths to chronicle the brutal reality of...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Anker Desai and in the early hours of Thursday the 22nd of October, these are our main stories. Several government and public organizations in Europe and the US have temporarily
taken their websites offline because of cyber security concerns. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to hold three-way talks with the US as Washington pushes to end the war between them. And we find out how a British man was able to hold down five full-time government jobs at the same time.
Also in this podcast, hundreds of elephants in Sri Lanka have died, marking a sharp increase from the previous year. And she managed to smuggle these out over the course of seven years. And then when she was freed in 2017, she transcribed all these scraps, turned them into
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