A second wave of cyberattacks is suspected to have hit supermarket refrigerators across Europe, causing fridges to increase temperatures and spoil food at dozens of stores across Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden. Supermarket giants Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt confirmed the hacks overnight, with one Belgian company that operates Delhaize's systems saying that the hackers had changed the settings to defrost, per Reuters. Stores have experienced heavy food losses from the cyberattacks, forcing supermarkets to throw out goods that had defrosted or were otherwise no longer consumable. The cyberattacks follow earlier refrigerator hacks in France last month that caused food spoilage at hundreds of supermarkets by deliberately raising the temperature on the units. Security researchers said that the cause of the hacks was internet-connected refrigerators made by Danish company Danfoss, which was no longer providing security updates. Security company Claroty warned back in August that those refrigerator units were at risk of remote hacks and outages....

The company's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios that the midterms will be 'a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028,' when he expects AI to be 'the issue' in the presidential election. So OpenAI is to influence the AI debate moving forward, with Lehane discussing several proposals, including the development of AI 'speed limits'; finding ways to help people see AI as empowering them in their daily lives; pushing the U.S. to take a role in developing global standards ' and yes, rebranding data centers as 'AI compute campuses.' Lehane also described the conversation around data centers (a debate that has pushed Amazon and Microsoft to say they will no longer use NDAs in their negotiations with local governments) as 'good and healthy.'...

Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn't managed to reverse the funding slowdown, a review of Crunchbase data shows. Whether uncertainty over how AI will reshape travel planning and booking is contributing to that pullback remains an open question. Startups in the travel tech space have raised $2.2 billion this year through the third quarter, according to Crunchbase data. The largest funding recipients span a wide range of categories including hotel management software, travel booking platforms, alternative accommodations and corporate events. The mix also includes electric aviation, travel finance and insurance, and consumer hospitality businesses, reflecting a broad definition of travel tech. The broad trend: Investors are making far fewer bets on travel startups than immediately before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Crunchbase data shows. This year could be the lowest since at least 2018 when it comes to dollars raised and deal count....

TL;DR Rhoda AI is betting that predicting short sensory futures can organize robot behavior, with a separate inverse dynamics model turning each predicted future into movements. Its September scaling report ties better video prediction to stronger bearing-unpacking performance, and its October tactile report extends the loop to touch. The open question is whether these company-reported results, from one task and embodiment, carry over to other workflows, repeated training runs, and sustained factory operation. Watch someone empty a cardboard box and your brain fills in what comes next. The lid opens, the bag rises, the contents fall. For a robot, however, recognizing that sequence leaves a rather inconvenient problem: which motors should move, and what happens when the bag snags' A convincing movie of successful work does not automatically become successful work. Rhoda AI is building a company around that translation. Its bet is that predicting short sensory futures can organize robot behavior, while a separate model converts those futures into movements. The attraction is a vast supply of training videos. The challenge is making their lessons survive contact with an actual factory....