🌡 Hackers Pushed French Supermarket Fridges to 50°C

The attack hit about 150 Intermarché stores, where refrigerators stayed at 50°C overnight for six hours. All the food inside had to be thrown out, and some stores reported fires. Carrefour and Coopérative U were also targeted.

France's cybersecurity agency traced the breach to a vulnerability in refrigeration control software from the Danish company Danfoss. Danfoss said the affected systems ran outdated firmware and that it had long urged customers to update.

💰 Character AI Goes Bankrupt

The AI companion service has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and is putting its assets up for sale. The company cites legal, regulatory and operational problems, including lawsuits over harm to teens.

Disney, which recently hired Character AI's ex-CEO as its CTO, has offered $20 million for a perpetual non-exclusive license to some of its technology. Former Character AI staff now working at Disney will help keep the service running during the sale.

The sale should close in late November or early December. If no buyer wants to keep the service, it will be shut down.

🍏 Apple Unveils HomeView, a Smart Home Display Powered by the New Siri

Apple has launched HomeView, a home hub with a 7-inch display that handles music, FaceTime calls, and smart home control in one place. It runs on the new Siri AI, which can hold a real conversation and answer questions on almost any topic.

Paired with an iPhone, it can also draw on the user's personal context, including their calendar, messages, and app data. HomeView recognizes up to six family members by face, gives each their own home screen, and keeps personal data hidden from everyone else. It can show up to nine camera feeds at once, adjust lights and thermostats, and lock doors.

The tabletop and wall-mounted versions cost $299 each. Sales begin November 13. HomeView won't launch in the EU, where Siri AI isn't available yet.

🎧 Can a Robot Write a Symphony? Maybe

Claude's music was mistaken for human work more often than Vivaldi's. The Augmented Fifth blog ran a blind test in which listeners decided who wrote each piece: a human or AI.

Claude Opus 5.5's Oboe Concerto in C minor was judged human-made by 60% of respondents. A piece by Handel was taken for human work by 58%, and a piece by Vivaldi by 43%.

Could you tell Vivaldi from an AI?

❤️ — Yes!
🔥 — Not sure...

6⃣ GTA VI Release Trailer Revealed

The game comes out in 35 days.

Are you waiting?

❤️ — Yes, of course!
🔥 — I'm already tired of the hype...

🚘 Elon Musk Unveils a Flying Tesla Roadster

The EV drove up a ramp, spun around in midair, and eased itself to a landing using fans and compressed-air thrusters. While in motion, it also leapt over a truck and several cars.

Tesla says it will build the Roadster in 2028. The car was first announced back in 2017 and has been delayed multiple times since.

🎥 Actor Mark Wahlberg Wants to Continue Acting After His Death — With the Help of an AI Clone

Actor and investor Mark Wahlberg has no objection whatsoever to his AI clone continuing his on-screen career after his death.

"It would be cool that my children or my grandchildren could be in charge of my likeness and my image, and hopefully put me in some good movies," said Wahlberg.

The actor is even ready to sign up for CAA Vault, a private "digital vault" run by the Hollywood agency where celebrities use scanning technology to capture their bodies, faces, movements, and voices to create AI replicas.

The actor also has no objection if the animated series Ted, in which he voices one of the main characters, continues to air for decades with his AI version.

👨‍💻 Even so, Wahlberg is against replacing screenwriters with algorithms and doesn’t think it's right to "put an idea into ChatGPT and it puts out a script, and then you should go make that and not use real actors."

Would you watch a movie with an AI actor?

❤️ — Yes, you can't even tell the difference anymore
🔥 — No, that's a slop

🚀 Japan Launches Mission to Bring Back a Piece of Martian Moon Phobos

Japan has launched a mission to bring soil back to Earth from Phobos, a moon of Mars, for the first time. The MMX probe is expected to return about 10 grams of samples in 2031.

The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2027 and will spend several years studying Phobos and the second moon, Deimos. In 2029, a mini-rover will land on Phobos. It will examine the surface, choose a landing spot, and collect soil.