me January 2025 @politico, timing slightly off: we may soon see “the largest cyberattack in history, taking down, at least for a little whil…

me January 2025 @politico, timing slightly off: we may soon see “the largest cyberattack in history, taking down, at least for a little while, some sizeable piece of the world’s infrastructure… generative AI tools are increasingly being used to create code; in some cases those coders don’t fully understand the code written, and the autogenerated code has already been shown in some cases to introduce new security holes … the world [is] quite vulnerable to ever more audacious attacks.” meta, right about now: oh shit, he might have a point. some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs hackers also used a senior "Space Force" official's account to post anti-Iran war messaging in the voice of "Hanoi Hannah" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/te…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-09