A few minutes ago I discovered that the St. Louis Federal Reserve site was down.

“Updated 12:41, 21 October 2026

Government portals, hospital websites and school services went dark worldwide on Wednesday as operators scrambled to protect against two critical software flaws.

The disruptions stemmed from vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language used to power up to 70 percent of the world’s websites. …”

https://mol.im/a/16227089

PHP code has been a ticking time bomb for years.
It's great for automated tasks. But it's very weak if you don't have any security guards in place.

Good.

It's better by far for users that the at-risk sites go dark until they have fixed their vulnerability.