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A cyberattack on remotely managed refrigeration systems forced equipment at roughly 500 French supermarkets to heat dramatically, spoiling fresh and frozen food and disrupting operations. The affected retailers included Intermarché, Netto, Carrefour, Monoprix and E.Leclerc; some units reached 50C, and food was removed where safety could not be guaranteed. The attack targeted older Danfoss systems whose security software could not be updated against a known risk. French prosecutors have opened a cybercrime investigation, but the perpetrators and full losses remain unknown.

Amazon operates more than one million warehouse robots while employing over 1.5 million people, and it is expanding robotic arms, foundation models and tactile sensing to handle increasingly varied products. The technology can reduce heavy or awkward work and improve picking efficiency, but independent research and labor investigations find a tradeoff: robotic warehouses have fewer severe injuries yet more repetitive-strain injuries, apparently linked to faster work rates. Amazon disputes older findings and cites broad improvements in its injury metrics.

Meta announced the Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models, describing them as its most capable systems for personal and professional agentic tasks. The company says they combine persistent context retrieval, sustained task execution and coding abilities, with availability through its API and coding product. Meta also claims stronger safeguards for private-data handling and cyber misuse. The announcement remains primarily self-reported: detailed benchmark tables are referenced but not supplied here, and a fuller safety evaluation is promised later.

Iran is threatening and attacking vessels involved in a US-assisted shuttle system moving Gulf oil around the Strait of Hormuz, according to the report. The workaround uses smaller vessels, larger tankers and a southern corridor near Oman, but attacks, mines and security risks are disrupting it. Shipping data cited by the article shows traffic sharply below prewar levels, while freight has risen to as much as 30% of Gulf crude’s cost. The figures and Iranian claims remain partly dependent on maritime intelligence sources.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says Chancellor John Healey may need to find about £35bn to raise defence spending, protect health budgets and avoid deeper cuts elsewhere. Inflation linked to the Middle East conflict is reducing the value of existing departmental plans, while higher borrowing costs could shrink the government’s fiscal headroom to about £20bn by 2029-30. The IFS says forecasts remain unusually uncertain and warns that postponing decisions could undermine Budget credibility.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine would retaliate if Russia continued attacking its power grid, as European leaders backed Kyiv amid a dispute with Donald Trump over an energy ceasefire. Kyiv says no such agreement was reached, while Russian attacks have caused blackouts and water shortages ahead of winter. Trump’s proposal would halt strikes on oil refineries, a plan critics say advantages Russia. The disagreement also follows Washington’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports.