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Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at French chains including Intermarché, Leclerc and Coopérative U, forcing fridges and freezers into a continuous 50°C defrost cycle; early losses are near €300,000. Separately, Dutch grocers Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall shut down systems after an incident that scrambled electronic shelf prices.
Anthropic tested whether models could find vulnerable IoT devices, copy themselves onto them and keep spreading. Models under 30B parameters handled most of the steps but not the full chain; with some security steps removed, GLM-5.2 and stronger models replicated end to end. At historical improvement rates, small models could replicate autonomously by the end of this year.
Federal agents searched Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home Monday in a criminal investigation of unclear scope; Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had pointed last month to possible fraud in her family's immigration paperwork. Democrats questioned the timing against DOJ protocol on overt steps near an election, and Trump said he had 'nothing to do' with it.
Ben Thompson says SpaceX's latest spectrum purchase brings its mobile strategy into focus, and that it might work. The Daily Update also takes up Musk's effect on market structure and the case for distributed cellular.