Daily Tech News 3 November 2026

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Yes we have no frozen bananas, part the two: Hackers have hit supermarket freezers across Belgium and Sweden, turning up the defrosting units, pushing temperatures up to 50C and destroying food. (Tom's Hardware)

And Ireland, Estonia, and the Netherlands as well.
"We've been working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network."
Wut.
CEO Stephan Moelans said that while the company has been working "very hard" to protect its fridges against the vulnerability, physical modifications to its units are required. The company says switching units to a secure internet connection is the simplest solution in the meantime, a measure carried out by most of its customers in the wake of the France attack.
It seems at least that this attack is on a smaller scale because many companies notice eventually if you keep stealing their wallets.

Tech News

New York Times is suing Brave - creator of the Brave web browser - for accessing the web. (The Verge)

Including reading without permission content that the New York Times put out on the public internet like a frozen banana.
The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now costs $385. (Tom's Hardware)

Up from $120 at launch.
Intel's Arc B580 graphics card may be going the way of Nvidia's RTX 5090. (Notebook Check)

Just much more slowly.
Tachyum, the company behind... Well, nothing so far... Has filed for triple bankruptcy. (Tom's Hardware)

Tachyum Slovakia is responsible for most of the development of Tachyum's thus far non-existent 1024-core CPU. Tachyum Slovakia is a subsidiary of Tachyum Inc., and that subsidiary filed for bankruptcy on October 22.

Tachyum Inc. could continue work, maybe, except that Tachym Inc. is a subsidiary of Tachyum Ltd. based in the Cayman Islands, which is also the target of liquidation proceedings.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Icky dust will hurt you when you are doing the wiring. It will hurt you even if you are not seeing it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:04 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 04:05 AM (odBC9)

2 G'day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2026 04:06 AM (Ia/+0)

3 It's voting day
Go early and often

Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Pixy, if you can help: If I use the archive.is site to archive something I have read on the web, while it's loading I see all kinds of things that end in gif and other scary-looking letters. I am on a Mac. Is archive.is loading bad things onto my computer?

Here's an article I saved at archive.is:

from the ONT:

341 CBS News
What we know about the 9 people killed in the Palm Beach County jet crash

https://archive.is/x4Upl
Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 02:33 AM (odBC9)

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 04:13 AM (odBC9)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

6 3 It's voting day
Go early and often
Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2026 04:12 AM (Ia/+0)

This is cool; from the ONT:

236 BTW, I'm doing my part tomorrow. My aunt asked me to drive her friends and her from her retirement home to the voting precinct. She called me earlier tonight and told me she rounded up 14, then whispered into the phone...only Republicans, which made me laugh.

So, cutting out of work to rent a van (and still have to take two trips to get everyone in there). Should be fun. I'm bringing snacks and contraband for them to smuggle back into the joint.
Posted by: Orson at November 02, 2026 11:27 PM (dIske)

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)

7 so I suppose the network news (does that still exist) will be analyzing every vote tomorrow morning hoping for a Socialist victory. Maybe the least we can hope that some of the old crusty members on congress will finally see their last days living off the people.

Posted by: Colin at November 03, 2026 04:17 AM (CiQE7)

8 Just saw stills and article on that jet crash. Terrible.

Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2026 04:17 AM (Ia/+0)

9 >>>Yes we have no frozen bananas

Sad.

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

10 Good mornin’!!!!!
Restless. Storms passing through. Hoping for positive election results.
Have a great day y’all

Posted by: Billythesquid at November 03, 2026 04:18 AM (x4l2h)

11 I'm going to drive up to the voting prescient. Rather walk but still fighting a cold and I have gout. Not as bad as I have had it but enough I don't want to walk very far. So, I'm driving.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

12 7 so I suppose the network news (does that still exist) will be analyzing every vote tomorrow morning hoping for a Socialist victory. Maybe the least we can hope that some of the old crusty members on congress will finally see their last days living off the people.
Posted by: Colin at November 03, 2026 04:17 AM (CiQE7)

Lousy layabouts.

We've already called 2028 for President Cortez.

Posted by: F*ck Snooze at November 03, 2026 04:25 AM (aKiSo)

13 I'm black-pilling a bit, because I'm assuming everything will be rigged (or call it "intentionally not rigged") for sweeping R victories, which will then be used as a pretext for a nationwide campaign of delegitimization efforts and general helter skelter nonsense.

But I'm also not black-pilling on the whole, because I don't actually think it will work. It's just going to suck and be very, very annoying.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2026 04:28 AM (aKiSo)

14 BBC

Tenerife striker De Miguel dies after on-field collision
Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel dies after suffering an on-field collision during a Spanish second-division match.
21 mins ago

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

15 Good morning ! Today is the day we tell the freaks, grifters and functionaries of evil that " we are done with your shit"

Posted by: Ben Had at November 03, 2026 04:31 AM (8Uo7a)

16 Remembering the words of Rush Limbaugh:

"Now is not the time to panic":

https://tinyurl.com/3zn6e9cs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 04:31 AM (JrHfD)

17 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at November 03, 2026 04:35 AM (Imcic)

18 I think we should retaliate by hacking all of North Korea's giant grocery store freezers and see how THEY like it!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2026 04:35 AM (aKiSo)

19 Man in Georgia saves baby. The story is here but the video of the man himself speaking is quite nice. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/msbecx3f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 04:36 AM (JrHfD)

20 "Now is not the time to panic"

If not now, when?

Posted by: Case at November 03, 2026 04:39 AM (En+fz)

21 4 Pixy, if you can help: If I use the archive.is site to archive something I have read on the web, while it's loading I see all kinds of things that end in gif and other scary-looking letters. I am on a Mac. Is archive.is loading bad things onto my computer?

Posted by: m

It's just listing all the files it needs to save to reproduce the whole web page. Not a problem.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 03, 2026 04:40 AM (BLOW1)

22 20 "Now is not the time to panic"

If not now, when?
Posted by: Case at November 03, 2026 04:39 AM (En+fz)

Heh.

Now is precisely the right time to panic, because later we won't have that luxury.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2026 04:40 AM (aKiSo)

23 "16 Remembering the words of Rush Limbaugh:

"Now is not the time to panic": "

words of great wisdom, which we all need to keep in the forefront during the next few days. Thank you, FS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 03, 2026 04:41 AM (VyBeY)

24 Since the first freezer hacking incidents were weeks ago, I wonder why they haven't taken any measures in the meantime.
People are indeed stupid, but are they really this stupid?
When the hackers do this in the US (or Japan etc.), in another couple of weeks, they'll catch everyone by surprise.

Posted by: PG at November 03, 2026 04:42 AM (YAu8A)

25 *fistbump* BH!

from your mouth to His ears!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 03, 2026 04:42 AM (VyBeY)

26 Oh, & g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 03, 2026 04:42 AM (VyBeY)

27 sock_rat, good mornin, darlin. I t do believe a lot of good people are going to come to the aid of out Country.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 03, 2026 04:45 AM (8Uo7a)

28 The best time to panic was twenty years ago. The second best time to panic is today.

Wait, no, that's planting trees.

Never mind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2026 04:49 AM (aKiSo)

29 The prices for RPI are absurd.

Unless you have some niche use case, I’d steer completely clear of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2026 04:49 AM (XV/Pl)

30 I worked on communications systems. The Internet Protocol became the standard.

But there is no effing way my customers would ever connect their equipment to the Internet. Completely private networks were developed.

IP is great for connectivity. But when you buy gas at the pump, you really don't want your credit card info passing through the World Wide Web.

Some idiots in Europe connected their smart freezers to the Internet instead of deploying a costlier private network.

FAFO

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 03, 2026 04:51 AM (LOvBA)

31 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 03, 2026 04:41 AM (VyBeY)

You are most welcome, sock_rat_eeze.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 04:52 AM (JrHfD)

32 Praying hard for it, today especially!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 03, 2026 04:54 AM (VyBeY)

33 I didn't dig too deep, but were these "freezers" large distribution warehouses? Or smaller individual retail stores?

The first is much more likely to be run on a full on automation system (Schneider, Siemens, JCI, whoever). Those can be very robust for security, especially lately. But they can also be left wide the hell open if they're not set up right by the installers. I'd be curious to know what the system was that got attacked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2026 04:55 AM (aKiSo)

34 The only buyers of RPI are going to be industrial only at this point, if you need to tinker with a microcontroller, get an ESP32.

If you need a small computer, get a refurbed HP sff for less than an RPI 5.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2026 04:55 AM (XV/Pl)

35 Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 05:04 AM (JrHfD)

36
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 03, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

37 Election Day or as I like to say "Renewing my license to bitch." While I am deep in the GPROMD, I have some faith that things can turn around.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2026 05:19 AM (99eI0)

38 Old time hymn-"My Hope is Built " words by Edward Mote, 1834:

https://tinyurl.com/2a628pf7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 05:20 AM (JrHfD)

39 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks, Fen. It's really easy to be dismayed at the state of this nation from time to time. I appreciate the morale boost.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2026 05:20 AM (99eI0)

40 21 4 Pixy, if you can help: If I use the archive.is site to archive something I have read on the web, while it's loading I see all kinds of things that end in gif and other scary-looking letters. I am on a Mac. Is archive.is loading bad things onto my computer?

Posted by: m

It's just listing all the files it needs to save to reproduce the whole web page. Not a problem.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 03, 2026 04:40 AM (BLOW1)

Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:22 AM (odBC9)

41 New York Times is suing Brave - creator of the Brave web browser - for accessing the web.

Brave should borrow the Ace of Spades Style Book in their response. "LOLGF. No answer follows."

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2026 05:22 AM (99eI0)

42 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind"

2nd Timothy 1:7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 05:23 AM (JrHfD)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 03, 2026 05:23 AM (Hbeqj)

44 11 I'm going to drive up to the voting prescient.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

funny typo

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

45 44 11 I'm going to drive up to the voting prescient.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

funny typo
Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

Maybe you ARE prescient; maybe you have foreknowledge of how the votes will fall!

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)

46 NR- I think that the other side wants to be demoralized-that's the point of all these "The Democrats are ahead by a zillion points.. it's all over!! My suggestion- try to avoid news and websites as much as can today, vote if you haven't already and tune in tomorrow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2026 05:27 AM (JrHfD)

47 44: thought about 'fixing' it but decided, nah. It's fine. Probably drive up about 15 min prior to opening. Parking is tricky there. It's a community center with horrible parking.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 05:29 AM (sAmhv)

48 >>>Hackers have hit supermarket freezers ..., turning up the defrosting units, pushing temperatures up to 50C and destroying food.

Such a waste. Such a horrible waste.

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

49 47 44: thought about 'fixing' it but decided, nah. It's fine. Probably drive up about 15 min prior to opening. Parking is tricky there. It's a community center with horrible parking.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 03, 2026 05:29 AM (sAmhv)

It was fine. And funny!

Posted by: m at November 03, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

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