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• French supermarket fridges heated to 50C in cyber attack - causing fires and food losses

  Hackers carried out a cyber attack on hundreds of French supermarkets overnight - pushing temperatures in fridges up to 50C and sparking fires.

• 'Frankly shocking' risk-taking by motorists uncovered by AI-powered cameras

  Motorists have been caught driving with children on their lap and both hands on their phone rather than the wheel in a trial of AI-powered cameras.

• AI and nuclear war threaten human extinction by 2100, report warns

  Malicious use of AI and nuclear conflict pose the biggest threat to human extinction by the year 2100, global experts have warned.

• UK floods taskforce told to start looking at drought

  If you've ever felt baffled by the way Britain can find itself in drought just months after heavy flooding, this announcement might interest you.

• Volunteer police force chief sacked after using work phone to capture sexual images

  The head of the Metropolitan Police's Special Constabulary has been sacked after he used his work phone to capture images of a sexual nature, the force has said.

• AI sent police fake tip about unsolved murder

  An artificial intelligence model sent a fake tip claiming to have information about an unsolved murder.

• 'Snowflake' firm in ASOS hack message issues response

  The data firm mentioned in the ASOS hacking message has said the breach was not caused by a flaw in its system.

• OpenAI sparks 'mathpocalypse' as it publishes solutions to 372 outstanding problems

  OpenAI has published full or partial solutions to 372 outstanding mathematical problems, stunning mathematicians and forcing them to question the future of the field.

• Russia denies second case of 'plague' as WHO seeks to verify

  Russia has denied that a second case of an infectious disease has emerged where a woman who worked at a laboratory died last week.

• Number of wildfires recorded in England in 2026 was second highest on record

  England's very hot summer fuelled the second-highest number of wildfires on recent record, according to provisional government figures.