AI discovers critical PHP vulnerabilities, putting about 70% of websites worldwide at risk

Good morning! Shangguan News 'Morning Read' is here! Today is Friday, October 23, 2026, the fourteenth day of the ninth lunar month. § Yesterday and This Morning: Multiple Fatalities | The China Earthquake Networks Center officially determined that at 22:33 on October 22, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Baqing County, Nagqu City, Tibet (32.40 degrees north latitude, 93.79 degrees east longitude), with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. According to CCTV News, it was learned from the Tibet Autonomous Region Emergency Command that the earthquake has so far caused 18 deaths, 11 serious injuries and 21 minor injuries. Black Thursday | Global stock markets experienced a 'Black Thursday.' The three major A-share indices all weakened collectively on the 22nd, with nearly 5,000 individual stocks across the market declining. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.48%; the Shenzhen Component Index fell 2.96%; the ChiNext Index fell 4.37%, down more than 40% from its historical high in June this year. On the same day, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell more than 3%, South Korea's KOSPI Index fell 3.52%, Japan's Nikkei 225 Index fell 2.65%, and both German and French stock indices fell more than 1%. As the last major global indices to close that day, the three major U.S. stock indices moved in divergent directions, with the Nasdaq Index falling 2.6%, led by declines in semiconductors, memory and chips. No Forced Liquidation | Securities Times reported on the 22nd that rumors circulating online that 'large-scale forced liquidation occurred in some leading AI stocks, triggering a chain reaction' drew attention from some investors. The reporter learned that on that day, no chain forced liquidation as rumored online occurred in leading AI stocks on the Shenzhen market; only a small amount of liquidation occurred in a few individual stocks, amounting to less than 100,000 yuan, and the related rumors were false information. Token Pricing | Cailian Press, October 23 (wire): OpenAI has officially fully opened its decision API, with the decision API input priced at $0.10 per million Tokens and cached input at $0.01 per million Tokens. Gold Purchases at Four Times the Pace | Goldman Sachs published a report this week saying that global central banks' gold purchases reached 79 tons in August, more than four times the average level before the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022. Some European countries are adjusting arrangements for storing their gold reserves, and more central banks are unwilling to disclose the specific storage locations of their gold. For some central banks, the focus has shifted to how to ensure that existing reserves can be quickly deployed when needed. The report said China's central bank is currently the largest gold buyer that can be clearly identified. However, because some central banks' gold purchasing activities are difficult to track, it cannot be ruled out that other economies may have purchased more gold than China. PHP Vulnerability | According to CCTV Finance citing reports by U.S. media including The Wall Street Journal on the 21st, researchers using AI technology discovered serious security vulnerabilities in PHP, a website development technology widely used around the world, which may put a large number of websites at risk of hacker attacks. PHP is a widely used server-side scripting language. PHP is a programming language widely used in website development and is often called 'the pillar of the internet.' According to data from network technology tracking agency W3Techs, about 70% of websites worldwide use PHP. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warned organizations to immediately patch two security vulnerabilities in PHP. After 20 Years | A gold medal and an Olympic berth secured together, China's women's gymnastics team enjoyed a night of harvest. The 54th World Gymnastics Championships concluded the women's team final on the 21st, with China winning the title with 165.764 points, returning to the top of the world championships women's team podium after 20 years and securing a team qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Biggest Concession | Ukrainian President Zelensky said in an interview with British media on the 22nd that a ceasefire is currently the biggest concession Ukraine can make. He also hinted that he would not accept demands to withdraw troops from the Donbas. Russia has demanded that Ukraine withdraw troops from Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and other places. Reclaiming Sovereignty | Argentine President Milei reiterated on the 21st that Argentina will reclaim sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands (known in Britain as the Falkland Islands) through diplomatic channels. World's First Case | France's health authorities said in a bulletin on the 22nd that the country had discovered the world's first officially recorded human infection with the Samunda virus, and the patient died earlier this month. This summer, the Samunda virus was first detected at cattle farms in France and other European countries. It is presumed that the patient may have been infected after being bitten by virus-carrying biting midges in eastern France. France's health authorities said this is a special case occurring in a person with severely compromised immune function. Related clinical, biological and epidemiological investigations are still ongoing.