World
The supermarket freezer attacks finally have a name attached: France accuses Iran
Three weeks ago nobody had claimed the attacks. France’s foreign minister now calls it the first large-scale sabotage cyber-attack on…
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World
Blood samples were being held at -30C. The attackers set the controls towards 110C
The European refrigeration attacks reached medical cold storage, not only supermarket aisles. France’s health ministry says blood…
World
A new French literary prize is only for AI-assisted books, and you must submit your prompts with the manuscript
A month after France’s Goncourt prize dropped a novel over AI allegations, three entrepreneurs have created an award that requires the…
World
Hackers turned on the defrost in 700 French supermarkets — freezers reached 50°C and some stores caught fire
No sophisticated code was needed. The controllers were old, unpatched and reachable from the internet — which describes a great deal of…
Technology
France’s biggest literary prize dropped a bestselling novel over an AI accusation made by an anonymous account
The Académie Goncourt removed Thelyson Orelien’s debut from its longlist after an X account ran it through a detection tool. He denies…