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Radio 4,22 Oct 2026,45 mins

Governments and businesses race to patch websites with critical cyber-security update

The World Tonight

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The vulnerabilities were found within the PHP programming language by AI systems run by OpenAI. But could they just have easily been found by hackers? We ask the former head of the UK Government’s Office for Artificial Intelligence, Sana Khareghani. Also in the programme: We explore the difficulties of accurately diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) after actress Christina Applegate says she was wrongly told she had the condition. And the new film by The Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh - Wild Horse Nine - stars John Malkovich as a 1970s CIA agent. But is it any good?

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