Chilled to grilled: Hackers turn supermarket fridges into ovens
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It’s a recipe for disaster. Hackers have turned up the heat on French supermarkets – literally – by hacking into remote temperature control systems, leaving fresh produce shelves empty.
Hackers remotely tamper with supermarket refrigeration systems in France, ruining food on a massive scale. An OpenAI engineer is accused of secretly recording confidential meetings in the US. Meanwhile, AI systems accessing Australian government data spark fresh questions about cybersecurity and oversight.
In this episode:
· How hackers allegedly took control of connected refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets and raised temperatures remotely.
· The unusual method a Saudi engineer allegedly used to conceal a recording device inside an OpenAI meeting room.
· OpenAI says its own AI models helped identify the suspect.
· Why incidents involving AI access to Australian government information are prompting calls to update regulatory and cybersecurity safeguards.
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