No Sleep Till Beijing
So, a funny thing happened at 3 o’clock in the morning last night.
I’ve been scrolling social media today and seeing a strange pattern — a lot of people say they suddenly woke up around that exact time. Some say their Alexa beeped weirdly or just stopped working. Others can’t explain why they woke up, only that something felt off.
Coincidence? Maybe. But that’s also right around the moment when the big internet outage began.
Across the globe, Amazon Web Services went dark — and when AWS goes down, so does a huge chunk of the modern world. Social apps, gaming platforms, even Roku and Fortnite were hit. Slowly but surely, things have come back online… but no one seems completely sure why it happened.
And then came a new twist.
China has accused the United States of launching a “major cyberattack” against its National Time Service Center, claiming it could have disrupted communications, financial systems, and even the power grid. In a statement posted on WeChat, China’s Ministry of State Security said it had “irrefutable evidence” that the NSA exploited a security flaw in a foreign phone brand’s messaging service to steal sensitive data.
Now, there’s speculation tonight that what we experienced here — this mysterious outage — might have been retaliation.
No official explanations. Just silence, glitches, and a lot of people wide awake at 3 a.m.
Maybe it’s nothing.
Maybe it’s something.
But for now… there’s no sleep till Beijing.
