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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.
A 39-year-old unvaccinated woman in Franklin County, PA, died Oct. 10, becoming the sixth measles death in a state outbreak topping 1,000 cases since April.
A Monash University study gave 62 people psilocybin, scanned their brains, and used AI to find order beneath what looked like neural chaos.
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.
Sea and aerial drones sank two cargo ships 80 miles off Bulgaria on Oct. 6, killing at least two sailors inside NATO waters for the first time.
A Purdue bioarchaeologist reanalyzed 1920s Egyptian skull collections and found blunt force trauma in over one-third, reigniting the retainer sacrifice debate.
Apple announced Friday it is changing macOS full-disk access permissions after Meta’s Muse AI agent read private Apple Messages without users realizing they’d granted access.
The Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago created a hydrothermal system that ran for 8 million years, potentially sustaining microbial life deep beneath the seafloor.
NASA exercises options for two more Boeing Starliner flights and funds its return to service, as SpaceX phases out Crew Dragon for Starship.
Tesla launched high-volume Semi production in Sparks, Nevada — nearly eight years after the truck’s 2017 debut. Fleet operators, not consumers, are the target.