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Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing

Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank raises questions about whether there are broader problems with the data center build-out.

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The site where Project Jupiter, an artificial intelligence data center, is under construction in Santa Teresa, N.M. Oracle is having trouble obtaining state permits for its energy needs.

Every Bad Idea Australia Ever Had About the Internet, Now in One Bill

By: SGT
17 October 2026 at 03:00
by Dan Frieth, Reclaim The Net: A law sold as upstream prevention could send age checks, scanning, and speech controls downstream. A “safety net upstream” – that’s how Australia’s Communications Minister Anika Wells described the intent behind the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026, introduced to the country’s Parliament on Thursday. Wells […]

Not cool: who hacked France’s supermarket fridges?

17 October 2026 at 05:00

Whether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europe’s most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezers

Shortly before midnight last Sunday, the digital thermostats controlling hundreds of supermarket cold aisles across France began to flicker and rise.

In a “bizarre and unprecedented” cyber-attack, hackers had remotely overridden the temperature settings on thousands of freezers, fridges and chiller cabinets pushing them from as low as -27C (-16.6F) to well over 50C (122F).

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© Photograph: Lucien Libert/Reuters

© Photograph: Lucien Libert/Reuters

© Photograph: Lucien Libert/Reuters

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