AI's 'Black October': Critical PHP flaws set off global security scramble

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a broad security scramble affecting widely used web infrastructure. The New York Times foregrounds governments and businesses in Kenya, the Netherlands and elsewhere trying to prevent exploitation, while NBC News emphasizes a “global security scare,” says an AI program detected the flaw, and alone mentions major websites and government sites in Europe being forced offline.

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.