Hackers turned the defrost cycle of supermarket freezers in France into a remote switch. The intrusion was first reported in an October 2026 Hacker News thread that linked to a write‑up describing how the devices coul…

The affected units belong to a major French retailer that equips its cold‑aisle shelves with network‑enabled controllers. Those controllers expose a simple API for temperature monitoring, but the API also accepts a co…

A separate Hacker News post detailed a community effort to remove ads from an Android TV box. The author, publishing on Cretezy, posted a step‑by‑step guide that replaces the pre‑installed launcher with a lean, ad‑fre…

The post earned 286 points and sparked over a hundred comments, indicating strong demand for a TV experience that does not bombard viewers with sponsored content. Commenters shared their own tweaks, such as blocking t…