Crossed Wires: The software industry’s Andromeda Strain — suddenly nothing is safe any more
Daily Maverick | 13.04.2026 03:51
Every now and again, a piece of tech news appears that affords a glimpse of a future which no one was expecting. Such a moment occurred last Tuesday, concerning AI and cybersecurity and the future of just about everything we rely on. It has set off an urgent new race between good guys and bad guys (as though we don’t have enough of those). If the bad guys win, then there is going to be chaos at a scale that is hard to imagine.
