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O que é o PHP e por que sites de governo saíram do ar na Europa?

Told by 1 newspaper in one country, at 19:00 on 21 October 2026.

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Several headlines report that websites, including government sites in Europe, went offline because of a flaw related to the PHP programming language.1 2 3 RTP and Expresso describe the flaw as an outage or a cybersecurity problem that forced websites worldwide to shut down.4 5 Folha de S.Paulo focuses on explaining what PHP is and why government sites went offline.6

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