Heap o' Links Tue Oct 13, 2026

Hacking attacks across Europe not only switched off waves of supermarket freezers but locked the built-in defrosting units on to hit temperatures of 50C (122F) making for a decidedly toasty environment for ice cream.

AI is saying that the countries affected by the freezer-hacking are France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, and Belgium.

Elon Musk has just concurred with Anthropic's new policy that bans cruelty towards AI models, arguing that reasoning traces show models under extreme duress due to such a behavior, and that it might eventually blow back on humanity.

at walmart, couple months ago, I noticed that all the parking lot lights were on at midday ... by coincidence I bumped into the manager and while chatting, informed her of this.
Every. Single. Bit. of the store infrastructure is remotely controlled in Bentonville. no local controls at all. wow.
she had informed corporate, they were "working on it". lol.

For those IoT devices that absolutely demand a wifi connection, a WPA2/WPA3 secured router running OpenWRT, providing IP addresses via DHCP but with no upstream connection to any real network should fix their little red wagon...

*blink* *blink* I'm not sure, no, wait, I am sure I have no idea what any of that means....

1970s infomercial about Mars colonization, starting Elon Musk. A must-watch!

MARSx https://t.co/2Ft6MTHyqb

— Ari K (@arikuschnir) October 12, 2026