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Hackers allegedly breached refrigeration control systems at French supermarkets, causing units to overheat, triggering fires and spoiling stored food. The incident points to a targeted intrusion into industrial control or IoT systems managing store refrigeration rather than a simple equipment malfunction.
A Nature study reconstructing 1,000 years of fire history in southeastern Australia found that British colonization halted Indigenous burning practices, allowing open, grassy landscapes to turn into dense, flammable forests. Researchers analysed a sediment core from Croajingolong National Park, land traditionally managed by the Gunaikurnai people, who were forcibly removed in the mid-1800s.
Researchers are developing AI tools that can reconstruct images and mental content from brain activity, with hopes of aiding locked-in patients and studying dreams. Separately, startups are deploying small, distributed batteries in devices like induction stovetops and food carts as an alternative to large utility-scale installations facing community pushback over fire risks.
Researchers tested Maui residents six to eighteen months after the 2023 wildfires and detected notably high concentrations of toxic metals in their bodies. The findings indicate that health risks from the fires did not end when the flames were extinguished, but continued well into the following year.
Climate scientists tracking 14 forecasting models report that central Pacific sea surface temperatures are running about 2.9°C above the 30-year average, more than 1°C hotter than at the same point in the record 1997 and 2015 El Niño events. Models now give a greater than 90% probability that this year's El Niño will exceed every event recorded since the 1870s, raising fears of severe drought, flooding, wildfires and coral bleaching worldwide.
A Washington Post analysis found that conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles, not electric cars, account for most of the 3.4 million vehicles under active 'park outside' recalls due to fire risk while parked and off. NHTSA has issued 93 such recalls since 2021, with incidents including Kia Tellurides with overheating seat switches and Ford Expeditions with faulty circuit boards linked to at least 16 fires.