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A coordinated hack of refrigeration controllers at 700 French supermarkets caused mass spoilage and fires. The flaw? Publicly documented, unpatched hardware with predictable passwords.
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A week in books dominated by AI anxiety, bogcore’s literary roots, Sally Rooney’s U.K. rights freeze, and Yiyun Li on carrying the past forward.
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MacKenzie Scott’s genre pivot, Anne Rice at 50, AI pitch bots, and the week’s sharpest literary arguments from Oct 5–9, 2026.
Richard Avedon built his visual language at Harper’s Bazaar before becoming The New Yorker’s first — and long only — staff photographer.
Writer Kevin Lincoln investigates why even one beer now causes a rough morning — and what personal biology and shifting culture have to do with it.
SpaceX’s Michael Nicolls called for satellite operators to share better trajectory data at the IAC in Turkey, as Starlink’s 11,000-satellite fleet dominates low-Earth orbit.