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Cyberattack on French supermarkets tells us more about food security than AI safety

Experts know little about the motives of the hackers who remotely turned up the temperature on French supermarket refrigerators. Their methods, however, are far from science fiction.

  • French supermarkets targeted in cyberattack, causing food waste
  • Attack forced retailers to discard defrosted food and spoiled milk
  • Incident considered most consequential cyberattack in EU this year

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