The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance
Editorial: The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevail
Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw
Problem in language that underpins 70% of sites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline to patch fault
What is PHP and how serious is the computer language flaw causing website shutdowns?
Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world
Margaret Hamilton obituary
May 2026
Frank Land obituary
Business computer pioneer and the UK’s first professor of information systems
February 2026
‘I fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good
Initiative aims to identify proficient gamers and coders who can help companies identify flaws in their cybersecurity
January 2026
Politicians should take a tip from product managers and treat ‘U-turns’ as iterations
Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills
October 2025
Other lives
Andy West obituary
Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages
July 2025
Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – just
Przemysław Dębiak, who beat OpenAI at world finals, says he may be last human to win due to incredible pace of technological progress
March 2025
The networker
Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise
John Naughton
AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over
January 2025
Other lives
George Coulouris obituary
Other lives: Computer scientist instrumental in the installation of the first Unix system in the UK
August 2024
The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?
As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?
May 2024
The networker
ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity
John Naughton
Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation
January 2024
Horrified by Horizon? Then get ready to be totally appalled by AI
The networker
The hard truth about AI? It might produce some better software
John Naughton
December 2023
The real Santa’s face: ID software sorts Father Christmas from his stand-ins
The man in red’s distinct visage emerges by algorithm, proving not any old bearded man looks like him
November 2023
Other lives
David Turner obituary
Other lives: Pioneering computer scientist who designed and implemented three programming languages
April 2023
The networker
Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick
John Naughton
The generative AI tool can write code on request, making the specialist skill of programming open to everyone
