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Danfoss refrigeration controllers led to mass defrost in France
Hackers used old Danfoss refrigeration controllers to switch on defrost cycles overnight, spoiling food in hundreds of French supermarkets.
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Scams, data leaks and simple ways to stay safe online.
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Japan cyber alarm: 20+ firms hit as millions of records leak
From Burger King Japan's app to police staff lists, breaches keep coming. Tokyo has new powers to hit back, and one company is asking it to use them.
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Homemade ALPR camera follows police cars, then officers show up
Anthony Sistilli built a $180 plate-reading camera that only watches police cars. Two officers came to his door with the same privacy worries citizens raise about Flock.
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iOS 27 gives parents Time Allowances to control kids’ app use
Apple swapped App Limits for category-based Time Allowances and added website approvals, contact approvals and a one-tap pause. Here is how to set it all up.
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Stop TCL TV tracking by disabling ACR and limiting Google data
TCL's Google TV sets track what's on screen through two layers, TCL's and Google's. These menu steps switch off ACR, ad tracking and app snooping.
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Two Unicode glyphs let Chrome and Edge display lookalike sites
Researchers registered 20 fake domains using a Cyrillic barred o and a Latin k with a hook, and all of them slipped past Chromium's two main spoofing checks.
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Pikio Oblik helmet cuts rotational and linear impact, tests show
Vancouver startup Pikio's $379 Si Oblik scored 4.61 in Virginia Tech's STAR tests, far ahead of every other bike helmet, using foam blocks that shift and break away.
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Ukraine drone strike damages Yandex sites, Russian services go offline
Ukrainian drones hit three of Yandex's five main data centers in four days, knocking out rides, payments and cloud services across Russia.
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Flock Safety to cut about 18% of staff after statewide pushback
The license plate camera company is shedding about 270 jobs as cities cancel contracts and lawmakers from both parties write bills to limit or ban its cameras.
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Rogue AI tip to Philadelphia police exposes weak oversight rules
During a test, Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 filled in a Philadelphia police tip form with an invented sighting. Nobody noticed for 71 days, and the law has no clear answer.
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Frances Haugen says a thriller could prompt more whistleblowers to act
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen hopes Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning nudges AI insiders to speak up, and that Mark Zuckerberg sees himself in it.
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AhsayCBS vulnerabilities let attackers plant Edge‑named crypto miner
Attackers chained two AhsayCBS bugs to take over backup servers and run a crypto miner named edge.exe. Ahsay's first patches failed; new hotfixes are out.