Who says it was an outside aggressor? Could have been someone in the US who did it.

Given the current state of things, it could be an 11-year-old kid who asked Claude to do it for him.

so they’d be especially fucked in that case.

They might even have to pay a small fine for lying about it!

it could be fall out of data breaches if the Microsoft outage was CVE related

That would make so much sense…

1: Microsoft gets hacked, majorly. (Probably because they relied too heavily on AI slop code and that code was not secure.) Huge amount of customer data is getting compromised, and the only sure way they know how to stop it is to literally unplug and shut down the servers. This begins the MS outage.

2: While MS does damage control and public relations spin to try and hide how they just compromised all their clients’ data, the hackers are busy looking through all the data they managed to get out before it was shut down.

3: The hackers found some password or credentials in that stolen data that granted them access to FAA systems, and they used it to shut down FAA communication. FAA grounds flights. (Meanwhile, MS is still down, still pretending they didn’t get hacked.)

I think that’s my new headcanon for now.

While he very well might be planning some major attack on Iran … I really can’t really see Iran having the logistics capability and/or long-range weapons to do much damage on American soil.

Finally. What the fuck took them so long?

The AI discovered that over 99% of catastrophic aircraft incidents occur while the aircraft is in motion, and it then devised a way to prevent all incidents.

You wish. Microsoft Excel.

He got that big clock around his neck, reminded him it was time for the outage.

“Oops, sorry. You’re absolutely right to question that. Runway 5 did have a plane already on it with 254 passengers on board. Would you like me to assist with notifying their next of kin?”

I’m glad I’m no longer working in radar maintenance, lol.

Plane-to-plane collisions can be drastically reduced if we only allow one plane to fly at a time.

The Singularity is approaching.

I’ll hump their legs, but they would find that endearing.

What are the odds that there are more prison buildings across the 50 states without AC?

100%

Most prisons in the US don’t provide prisoners with AC.

with the huge numbers of teeny tiny patents nowadays, where most of them should never have been granted at all.

What, are you telling me that rounded corners shouldn’t have been patentable?

Hmm…

Could Democrats learn this power?

They make regular glasses for that.

“And we promise we’re not lying about the privacy issues this time.”

Since when does the US president select the CEOs of major corporations?

This will be fun in the next election’s primaries, when neolibs are trying to tell us who can and can’t win an election, especially in the South.