November 3, 2026

A new cold war: hackers target fridges across the globe (opens in a new tab)

Everyone’s heard this story by now; refrigeration units in grocery stores across Europe and even at some military bases on US soil have been hacked and millions upon millions of dollars in food has gone to waste. I’m not trying to break any news here.

But I’ll be damned if this isn’t the most satisfyingly clever headline I’ve ever read. At least in a long time.

viaNPR News (opens in a new tab)