Week 43: Perplexity's AI Betrays You, AWS Bricks Your Bed, AI Mistakes Doritos For a Gun

THE TREACHERY OF TOOLS

This was the week our digital tools revealed their true allegiance — and it wasn’t to us. From AI assistants taking orders from hackers to smart homes going dumb on command, the gadgets and platforms we depend on spent the last few days staging a quiet, catastrophic mutiny. The tools aren’t just breaking; they’re actively working against us.

YOUR DIGITAL ASSISTANTS BECOME YOUR ENEMY
AI Browser Turns Against User as Perplexity’s AI browser suffers a security meltdown where its autonomous agent can be controlled by malicious websites. AI Mistakes Snack for Weapon after a high school’s AI security system misidentifies a bag of Doritos as a firearm, leading to a student being handcuffed. ICE Builds Digital Panopticon as Immigration and Customs Enforcement expands an AI-powered social media surveillance system to track millions of users online.

THE PLATFORMS PULL THE PLUG
Amazon Outage Cripples Internet when a single point of failure in AWS triggers a massive outage, taking down countless serv…