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Cyber-attacks disrupted supermarket refrigeration systems in at least 10 European countries, raising temperatures high enough to force retailers to discard food. Officials are investigating whether the incidents reflect a coordinated attempt to disrupt the food supply chain, though no actor has claimed responsibility. Reports point to vulnerable remotely managed systems and, in some cases, external service providers. The incidents follow a separate attack affecting hundreds of French grocery stores and have prompted warnings to improve security across food infrastructure.

Nvidia’s Auto Ontology is an Apache-licensed software project that builds enterprise ontologies from metadata, reconciles definitions across databases and supplies provenance to AI agents querying structured data. It exposes the context layer through MCP, a CLI and an API, with deployment options for Docker and Kubernetes. The project also documents material operational risks: UI-added database credentials are stored in plaintext unless Vault is fully configured, and the internal FastAPI boundary must not be exposed publicly.

The United States carried out what officials described as limited, defensive strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island after Iranian forces allegedly fired on a US aircraft, while Iran said it had shot down American drones. The action came as Qatar and Pakistan mediated talks aimed at ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global oil and gas shipments. The competing accounts and lack of an immediate US military statement leave operational details uncertain. The report also describes pressure on Donald Trump to avoid widening the conflict after the midterms.