We've all seen this movie before. Every time the political class
needs a new crisis to justify a new power grab, the headlines
conveniently align -- and right now the cyber attack stories are landing
like clockwork. A wave of banking hacks, a PHP vulnerability that
supposedly exposes 100 million WordPress sites, and an FBI warning
telling people to take their PHP sites offline all appear at the exact
moment the Middle East is sliding toward a wider war. The corporate
media is dutifully pinning it all on "AI," because that narrative is
cheap, scary, and useful to the very tech giants that want to regulate
their competitors out of existence.
The BBC is already pushing the AI panic line, quoting researchers
who claim there is a greater than ten percent chance the technology
will "kill all humans," while OpenAI and Anthropic cynically urge
lawmakers to regulate the very field they dominate That
is not a public safety campaign; it is a moat-building exercise dressed
up as concern. In my assessment, the timing is not a coincidence. It is a
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