I'm baffled anyone would read anything into a news article, e.g. 'automatic shutdown'. It's anyones guess where 'the news' get their facts from, but anyone who has inside knowledge on anything they report on, will tell you that most of the time they get it dead wrong.
Now, to my knowledge there is no such thing as 'automatic shut-down' of main engines on any airliner. For the APU, yes, but for the big noisy things hanging off the wings, there are only 3 ways of getting them to shut down: Run out of fuel, suffer catastrophic failure or command by the crew.