Technology and Science in Czechia — IT, Gadgets, Internet

US agencies, including the FBI and the cybersecurity agency CISA, have warned of a growing threat: hackers are breaking into industrial refrigeration systems and turning fridges into ovens. In October and early November, hundreds of superma

The hackers who attacked supermarket cooling systems in at least eight European countries on Monday most likely used elementary passwords such as “12345”. Laurens Singier, an expert at Belgium’s Howest University, showed Reuters how it coul

Canva, the Australian design platform, announced a restructuring on Nov. 4 that affects 1,271 employees, or 22% of its workforce. Not all of those people are losing their jobs: the figure covers layoffs, relocations and changes to existing

Two of six humanoid robots failed their probation assessments after a 24-hour trial shift at a working convenience store in Shanghai, according to Tech Times. The machines, built by Chinese robotics company AgiBot, still completed 1,730 tas

Global warming has halted the onset of a new ice age, according to a study published in the journal Science. The Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic had been growing for about two thousand years, but began to shrink aroun

Hackers raised temperatures at three cold stores holding blood products for France's national blood service, the EFS said, but its alarm systems let technicians step in before the products were compromised. The Guardian reported that the at

Rockstar Games has confirmed that players can begin preloading Grand Theft Auto 6 on Nov. 10, nine days before the Nov. 19 launch. The download is large: IGN reported that the preload file weighs up to 212 GB, so players will need to clear

Britain will likely face cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence on its critical infrastructure by 2028, the head of the country's National Cyber Security Center warned Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The risk covers the

At a presentation at Planetarium Prague, organizers showed the items that Czech astronaut Aleš Svoboda will take to the ISS. They include a flag, linden seeds, an excerpt from Čapek's play “R.U.R.”, a hockey puck and a plush lion cub in a m

A cyberattack has knocked out refrigeration in supermarkets in Sweden, Ireland and Estonia: hackers set the temperature to 50 degrees, and the shops threw out all their chilled goods. This is reported by an international news agency and Swe

Sony released another PlayStation 5 system update on Nov. 2, its second in about a week and a half, with patch notes saying only that it includes security fixes. The release comes as hobbyists keep working on jailbreaks for the console and

The PlayStation 5 Pro keeps getting more expensive in Czechia: the lowest offer is now around 47,000 crowns, less than 3,000 short of the 50,000 Kč mark. At the start of the year the console could be bought for 18,985 Kč, so today it costs