Black October

You are trying to pay a utility bill online, but the page just hangs. You refresh, and the entire site is gone. Your internet is fine. The problem is that the neighborhood’s digital plumbing — the unglamorous code your bank and your grocery store both depend on — stopped working, all at once, for reasons nobody planned. This was not a single, coordinated attack by a central villain. It was a strange, overlapping chain of eleven major failures in one October week. No single AI system caused them all. There is no evidence of a grand conspiracy. There is just a lot of broken infrastructure at the same time — which, depending on your temperament, is either reassuring or considerably worse. Start with the plumbing.

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