@theatlantic: A series of major cybersecurity attacks forced websites across the web to shut down this week, in an event some have dubbed “Black October.” Cybersecurity officials are now racing to patch vulnerabilities in the internet before AI-assisted hackers can exploit them further, Matteo Wong reports. Read the story at the link.

Bishop :

AI never should have been allowed to write code

🌈 Eb | +Size Wellness :

Is that why it’s moving so slow?

Eric :

Still waiting for at least one (1) significant, material benefit from AI as we see all of this harm.

thatguyfierri :

Can these hackers wipe student debt? Or credit card debt?

JulieBob :

Wouldn’t it be amazing if this was the start of going back to analog. Imagine people not being so addicted to technology. Maybe we would have more creativity, better sources of information, more difficult to blast out misinformation.

Jim :

I don’t believe we will ever catch up or keep up. Using “this Internet” for anything important is quickly becoming unsafe. Likely it will need to be abandoned for non-digital means where possible. Right now I feel like the band is playing on the Titanic.

derby1 :

Medical records need to go back to paper!

Andrew Bearden :

Bro, get a new microphone.

user8686681261539 :

dj

John Strough :

RandomGuy :

How convenient

arianna :

gigihonee :

Should Crowdstrike and Cloudflare be preventing this from happening?

vanpancake77 :

In this case, AI is proving to be more effective at exploiting vulnerabilities rather than discovering them because this was already a known bug

Brenna Flood :

We now have the brotli cve over the weekend. The impact radius is very large.

Anna Yvette :

Ok but can they wipe our debts ?

thewizmano :

Matteo?

Jalapeño Sandwich :

I hate AI so much. Nothing is stable in life anymore. We have no real government, can’t afford anything, now information isn’t even safe with products and services that are typically safe. And we’re being told there’s nothing we can really do. I give up.

kevabelle :

Isn't PHP open source? Did that make it more vulnerable?

hughcoles :

Imagine putting up a quotation for something you just said 5 seconds ago [Tears of joy]

GG :

whats Wong, Matteo?

Sollith :

People don't remember bricking the family computer using kazaa/etc. or when a random pop-up ad would infect your computer. We'll just the kinds of firewalls described in series such as Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell from back in the 90s. People just got lazy and too complacent due to being conditioned for passive consumption.

fourgummieslater :

I can't help but think about that terrible movie, The Lawnmower Man when Job needed a back door. Don't come at me, I know that's not based on the book.

Lisa Newell Garrison :

Coincidentally midterm elections next week and lifted sanctions with a country that interfered previously 😳

Pulen💚 :

hello everyone, please help me buy laptop for school 🥹🙏