Archive for November 2026

Friday Fun: Working as Intended

AI music with AI video about AI The future is a young, feminine voice, who can resist? Working as intended Claudia explains the hazards of believing she is either sentient or infallible, the myopia of AI utopianism, and how gatekeeping and the “asymmetries of fluency” can be wielded against an unsuspecting world. →

Not cool: When the Freezer Becomes an Oven

When the Freezer Becomes an Oven: Europe’s Supermarket Refrigeration Attacks For the second time in about three weeks, attackers have remotely taken over refrigeration controllers in European supermarkets and turned fridges and freezers into warming cabinets. The first wave hit France and nearby countries on the night of 11–12 October. The second wave came overnight →