• Yes we have no frozen bananas, part the two: Hackers have hit supermarket freezers across Belgium and Sweden, turning up the defrosting units, pushing temperatures up to 50C and destroying food.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And Ireland, Estonia, and the Netherlands as well.

  "We've been working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network."

  Wut.

  CEO Stephan Moelans said that while the company has been working "very hard" to protect its fridges against the vulnerability, physical modifications to its units are required.  The company says switching units to a secure internet connection is the simplest solution in the meantime, a measure carried out by most of its customers in the wake of the France attack.

  It seems at least that this attack is on a smaller scale because many companies notice eventually if you keep stealing their wallets.
  
  
  

Tech News

• New York Times is suing Brave - creator of the Brave web browser - for accessing the web.  (The Verge)
  
  Including reading without permission content that the New York Times put out on the public internet like a frozen banana.
  
  
  
• The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now costs $385.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Up from $120 at launch.
  
  
  
• Intel's Arc B580 graphics card may be going the way of Nvidia's RTX 5090.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Just much more slowly.
  
  
  
• Tachyum, the company behind...  Well, nothing so far...  Has filed for triple bankruptcy.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Tachyum Slovakia is responsible for most of the development of Tachyum's thus far non-existent 1024-core CPU.  Tachyum Slovakia is a subsidiary of Tachyum Inc., and that subsidiary filed for bankruptcy on October 22.
  
  Tachyum Inc. could continue work, maybe, except that Tachym Inc. is a subsidiary of Tachyum Ltd. based in the Cayman Islands, which is also the target of liquidation proceedings.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, November 04 2026 03:47 AM (xUUDq)

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