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Meredith Haggerty
Meredith Haggerty
Rapidement! La glace!

Hundreds of French supermarket refrigerators were turned off in an apparent cyberattack on Monday, AFP reports. Major retailers E. Leclerc, Intermarche, and Cooperative U were remotely defrosted, with at least 300 Intermarche stores alone taking the hit. The food is reportedly ruined and will be disposed of.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Global smartphone sales just hit a 14-year low.

That’s according to analysts at Counterpoint, who also say sales in Q3 2026 were 20 percent down on the previous year, as supply shrinks and prices rise. Samsung held the top spot, helped by Galaxy Z Fold 8 sales, with Apple close behind.

Android is the best and worst thing about Googlebooks

As an Android devotee, I want to love Googlebooks — but they don’t make it easy.

Dominic Preston
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Are military hackers watching you through insecure cameras?

Hackers are increasingly using vulnerable civilian cameras to track, surveil, and aid attacks on opposing military operations, with an estimated 1.2 billion internet-connected cameras impacted globally. That ranges from Iran watching through chicken coop cameras in Israel, Ukraine monitoring Russian submarines via external building surveillance, and corporate teleconferencing devices being hacked through unsecured apps.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Nintendo exec confirms “no plans” to ditch physical games.

Bill van Zyll, Nintendo’s VP and general manager in Latin America, told Youtuber Coelho no Japão that the company will “go off what the consumer prefers,” and that it knows “how much the fans like” physical games. It’s no big surprise given the Switch 2’s card slot, with shareable licenses linked to its game cards, but follows Sony killing PS5 discs.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
What do you want to know about the Surface Laptop Ultra?

I’m testing Microsoft’s new RTX Spark-powered laptop at the moment, and I’ll have some impressions on it later this week. I’d like to hear what you’d like to know about this particular laptop, so please drop a comment below and I’ll try and include answers in my initial impressions.

The Surface Laptop Ultra.
The Surface Laptop Ultra.
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge