BBC's Cyber Correspondent Admits He Didn't Know PHP Existed—While Covering a PHP Flaw
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-22
A suspected critical PHP flaw made BBC news, but the broadcaster's first dedicated cyber correspondent Joe Tidy admitted he only learned PHP existed the day before. Google's AI Overview meanwhile lists him as covering major software vulnerabilities—programmers are having a field day.
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