[bennettfeely]

The good news is that US nuclear weapon silos are stuck with 1970s technology.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-o...

[aschla]

This is no longer the case, they’ve since upgraded: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...

[ricksharp]

Everyone calm down:

It was just a kid trying to hack into a video game company. He accidentally started a war simulation. The US had recently turned over control of its entire nuclear arsenal to an AI because humans resisted launching weapons that would kill millions.

Anyway, the kid accidentally started a war simulation and now the AI wants to nuke everyone. Don’t worry though, as soon as the AI plays itself in tic-tac-toe, it will realize that peace is the only way.

If you aren’t old enough to understand this, you need to catch up on your 80s nerd movies. :)

[metiscus]

How about a nice game of chess?

[toomuchtodo]

Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.

[pengaru]

> Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.

Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.

[sushshshsh]

Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes

[nullsense]

A Kubernetes cluster of nuclear weapons. Want mutually assured destruction? Simply deploy a helm chart!

[donw]

Finally, Terraform and CloudFormation can truly live up to their names!

[runawaybottle]

Have you heard of Amazon’s new Chaos Engineering as a service?

[temp0826]

Worked for Galactica

[lumberingjack]

No networks on the old mAn's ship!

[sushshshsh]

Which is probably the reason they were not compromised.

[rurban]

You mean either launch password 1111 or 1234.