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Agentic AI Could Improve Everything or Cascade into Doom
After days of chaos, hundreds of deaths and trillions of dollars wiped off stock markets, the Great Agentic Cascade of July 2028 turned out to have begun much like the great internet outages of October and November 2025: with a minor bug at a major provider on which many of the world’s biggest internet services depended to manage their traffic. But in the intervening three years, the world had gone all-in on agentic AI—systems that can make and carry out decisions without human intervention. Many internet companies had created AI agents that automatically spun up servers at alternative cloud firms when their main service went down. That was their, and the world’s, undoing…
Video: How Vulnerable are Airlines to Hackers?
Resilient Systems CTO Bruce Schneier discusses the vulnerability of airlines to hackers with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at the Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas.
5 Questions For Cybersecurity Expert Bruce Schneier After the Latest White House Hacking
Democrats didn’t need this: Another cyberattack on an unclassified White House computer network (and unconfirmed reports of Russian involvement) in the closing days of a midterm election in which voter frustration toward President Barack Obama, government dysfunction and national security fears already are hurting their chances of hanging onto control of the Senate.
Chinese hackers reportedly targeted White House staffers’ Gmail accounts in 2011. The next year, Chinese hackers reportedly used spear phishing to break into an unclassified…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.