News Summary

• The cybersecurity freakout dubbed " Black October " has inspired warnings about AI-powered hackers, digital catastrophe, and even advice to stockpile cash and canned food.
• But this is largely a human-made mess.
• The internet runs on decades of software, some of it containing security weaknesses that have been overlooked, tolerated, or simply left unfixed.
• "The funny thing is everyone was saying AI slop code will cause a cyber crisis but it's actually all the old human slop causing it and the AI is just cleaning it up," software engineer Ben Kaufman said.