The Closing of the ‘Defenders Window’ Is Nigh

At first, the X headlines this morning about the latest AI-powered cybersecurity incident seemed dire. But by the time I had a cup of coffee and began parsing all the cyber jargon, I was reassured that an apparent solution was on its way to plug a major new security hole that could make websites vulnerable to cyberintrusions. Since August, a coalition led by OpenAI has been working to address critical vulnerabilities in PHP, an open-source programming language that undergirds the web. But there was bad news, too: This type of long-simmering response to the latest AI-discovered vulnerabilities