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(1:25) cj's week:
(2:54) Jeff's Week:
(7:20) Headline: Error 404: Samsung Refrigerators Cold Not Found
(19:35) Headline: Bye-Bye Bot Farms: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Take Down Russian Data Centers
(24:11) Headline: YouTuber Turns the Tables, Builds License Plate Reader That Only Tracks Police
(28:54) The Samsung Bespoke AI Refrigerator
What happens when your $3,600 refrigerator has an existential crisis? This week, Jeff and CJ dive into the smart home apocalypse after a botched Samsung software update turned luxury Bespoke AI fridges into giant, room-temperature paperweights.
And if that wasn’t hot enough, hackers across Europe decided to test their sous-vide skills by remotely cranking supermarket freezer systems up to a sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, Ukraine launched symmetrical drone strikes against Russian data centers, taking down critical tech hubs and causing automated internet troll traffic to plummet overnight by over 88 percent. It turns out the fastest way to silence an army of online bots isn’t a mute button—it’s blowing up their server racks.
Finally, the surveillance state gets a taste of its own medicine when a clever Canadian software engineer builds a DIY license plate reader designed to track police cars instead of citizens.
Throw in hot air balloon fiestas sponsored by Big Oil and the perils of in-flight turbulence, and you have another classic episode of tech gone wonderfully wrong.
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges - Ars Technica
'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident | Tom's Hardware
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s
Google" - Ars Technica
Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns | Tom's Hardware
I Investigated Flock Cameras. Then Police Came to My Door.
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