Cyberattack... Yes
Hack... No

Someone found a fridge control unit, ask copilot the default username and password and what port the admin interface is on. Then the just scanned the internet and found all the fridges connected to 4G modems with public IPs.

If there was any hacking, they scanned CGNATed networks.

In what other contexts does Trump use the adjective honorable except when speaking of Asians?

When dealing with fallout from an affair, Trump endorsements are precisely the wrong kind of help.

Yeh... title kinda covers it.

Download opencode, select a model, type "Migrate this computer to my new computer" and come back when it's done.

Didn't Bezos make the point that being an astronaut now is no different than riding the London Eye?

I think the astronaut thing has lost all of its excitement because Musk and Bezos cheapened it so much. i mean, where's the excitement in taking a fancy carnival ride these days?

What about hiring "Lunar Excavation Engineers"?

Astronaut has been degraded to something akin to riding a bus. It's no longer about the ride. Pick a job you want done in space and hire people to be migrant workers.

Because identifying who was doing the download is much more expensive than looking to see which ISP level connection the bytes went to. I suspect that they will blindly accept a DMCA type notification from the copyright holder regardless of accuracy.

Want to nobble your competitor coffee shop ? Just use their free Wifi to download a few files.

I'll add to this... I've now done some digging.

This wasn't even really a hack. Well, I wouldn't call it one. It was "someone left the keys in the door and someone else turned them".

Apparently from what I can gather, the issue was that the controllers in the refrigerators have a web interface. They don't connect to a cloud, you connect to them directly... and this is where we find the keys in the front door.

The installers don't know how to ask for IT support and don't know how to get internet connectivity sorted out. They had a much better idea... install a 4G router and open the port for the controller on a public IP address. And this is important too, because more or less every LTE/5G provider on earth uses CG-NAT and IPv6. You'd have to pay extra to get a public IPv4 address but compared to the cost of a managed refrigerator, this was a trivial cost. The installers did this specifically because to give the customer access to the web interface, they would need a public IP or an open port.

So, you have a basic controller running a computer approximately in the same category of an Arduino.. maybe a Raspberry Pi Pico... running software written by people who were focused on the operation of the refrigerator rather than IT security. And there are no software updates... if the fridge works... it works.

Next issue, these ARE NOT IT PEOPLE and the people making the controllers ARE NOT IT SEC PEOPLE. There were default passwords. Things like admin/admin.

There were no firewalls. And Samsung is much more secure because it connects out to cloud which is centrally secured (or compromised).

All that you would have got was some of this

How fast is it, how large is the binary ? Even if the numbers are not great this is amazing for a first release.

Just as importantly: how maintainable is it, how easy to find out what happens when things go wrong ?

I can't read this without cringing. We can technically produce helium with fusion when China figures it out for us. But last I checked, we capture helium.

I disagree. I do it all the time. And if I ever see the word expert, I attack twice as hard.

Ministers of anything generally are fair game. But even now, Kristen Klemmet... Assumed to be female... She's my favorite whipping boy 26 years later. She, with her business degree along with Christian Thommessen (the folder show... parachute king) managed to destroy the Norwegian educational system while she was minister of education.

Gender has no place in the world of incompetence. In the arena of stupid, everyone deserves to be mocked equally... Or at least relative to their stupidity.

My baby girl is working on her masters in signal processing and biomedical imaging so she won't have to work at a company like Boeing. Are you seriously bragging about your daughter's misfortune? Or are you saying "my daughter is such a shitty programmer she had to work for Boeing, but she's still better than you". I suppose, at least it's not John Deere or... Ford (sorry, no one should even joke about that).

Now instead of randomly calling people incels, run along and apologize to your daughter for speaking so poorly of her.

Again being the size it is the government Denmark can start with publishing all of its forms in ODF format, no more DOCX; also use open/free fonts. This makes it a MS problems if they do not render properly -- people will start blaming MS for errors not the other way round. Thus industry and people at home will start using LibreOffice (what is in Collabora).

Next they need to push schools & tech colleges to use ODF, too many of them train students to learn how to use Microsoft products, they graduate and expect to use MS in their jobs. Actually: it would be nice if schools were to train people properly, most teachers do not know how to use style sheets, etc, and, eg, will make columns line up by pressing spaces rather than setting tabs/whatever. Start by teaching teachers (harder than you think).

if it does not do what you want take the damned source and add what is missing and everyone will benefit. If you do not have the expertise then pay the developers or someone to do it for you. Yes: it will cost but to an entity the size of the Danish government the cost will be less than the cost of licensing MS Office for another year or so. Once this development cost is paid it does not need to be paid again next year - unlike a license fee.

If the various EU governments each pay to fix whatever itch scratches for them then you quickly end up with better packages; as well as regaining digital sovereignty etc. This must be obvious to almost everybody, or it is being used as an excuse to do nothing or maybe keep the brown envelopes coming ?

I suppose the can run a Earth's Eye ride and people can fly up and down over and over. They can sell tickets and launch famous people based on their anatomy in groups.

Does BO actually have any real plans of being more than a publicity stunt company? The whole Bezos launched famous women he wants to bonk stunt really ruined BO for me. Where are the flights showing progress towards living like the Jetsons? He sells carnival rides rather than scifi.

What will happen first, Musk takes full ownership of Mars or BO launches a meaningful mission.

What about the middle income earners. This has nothing to do with the middle class. The middle class would increase birthrate and lower the age their women get pregnant. But it would require long term guarantees to allow middle class people to change their life plans over it.

Middle income are "poor but we don't know it. We live by budgets but don't have enough to plan far ahead". This accounts for much of the US population. For them $1000 a month means feeding their child fresh vegetables rather than frozen. Fresh vegetables and proteins means major societal changes over time. $1000 a month could mean one less hour of overtime each day and an extra hour using an oven rather than a microwave.

My niece who I would give the world but she'd refuse it is one of these people. She lives on the edge of poverty but does it so she can cook her son's food and help him with his homework properly. She works overtime every other week when her son is with daddy and she scrapes up enough to dress him nicely and visit Legoland in the summer. $1000 a month would utterly change her world.

So, where are the stats on those people?