The top students in the front row were quite bold. They went straight up to the podium and used the keyboard to search the news online.
If struggling students had gone up to use the computer, the teacher would have flown into a rage the moment she saw them. But these were top students, and the atmosphere was festive today, so Ban Jianye, who was standing in the corridor, merely glanced over and said nothing.
The internet was flooded with relevant discussions. A casual search brought up a whole pile of results.
"Song He has begun his second round of retaliation. There's collateral damage too. I'm in the Maple Leaf Country, and every computer at our company blue-screened. They kept restarting over and over like the place was haunted. But our company didn't participate in the cyberwar, so we've tentatively concluded that something went wrong when the antivirus software was automatically updated. The company that supplied the antivirus software got hit by Song He. Only the few computers without automatic updates are still usable."
"I'm at an Ivy League school. More than twenty network-controlled centrifuges in the lab next door all exploded like firecrackers. Most of the students ran fast enough to avoid getting hurt, but a white guy had his thigh pierced by a piece of the centrifuge. He was just sent for emergency treatment, and there's blood all over the hallway! All the networked equipment in our labs has been shut down for now. So far, we've found that two vulnerabilities were exploited: a privilege-escalation vulnerability in a mission-planning program and a vulnerability in a printer backend service. The computer science department accepted TAO's mission and participated in the siege of Brain-like Chip Company, so Song He attacked our entire school indiscriminately. Every department was caught up in