I wrote about how two bugs in PHP almost burned the internet to the ground, why it broadly didn't, but how the PHP-ocalypse is likely just the first in a wave of aging internet tech that *will* inevitably break — it's a matter of time.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/php-ocalypse-how-two-critical-web-bugs-almost-broke-the-internet/
Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20261026132130/https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/php-ocalypse-how-two-critical-web-bugs-almost-broke-the-internet/
Zack Whittaker
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