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Freezers Into Ovens: Supermarket Sabotage, a Spy Bug at OpenAI & Tesla's Flying Roadster Hackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, running defrost at 50°C (122°F) and spoiling food worth tens of millions of euros. - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-heat-french-supermarket.html

- https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/france-fridge-hack-smart-devices-food-system-9.7379613

- https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers

A cyber incident at Ahold Delhaize knocked Albert Heijn's apps, deliveries, and distribution centers offline, leaving Dutch shelves short on fresh food.

- https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/14/albert-heijn-recovery-underway-cyberattack-damage-likely-tops-eu10-million - https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/10/albert-heijn-begins-restocking-as-hack-traced-to-foreign-servers/

An OpenAI engineer was arrested for allegedly hiding a toilet-paper-wrapped recording device behind the TV in an executive conference room.

- https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/saudi-national-arrested-installing-surreptitious-audio-recording-device-openai-san - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-spy-device-in-office/

Tesla finally unveiled the Roadster, complete with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters that let it hop over other Teslas, with production promised for 2028.

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/tesla-reveals-spacex-powered-roadster-that-flies-and-falls-with-style/

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Ben - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincorll/

A compliance-heavy customer, a quarter-end deadline, and a stock answer from the knowledge base that wasn’t going to cut it. Chris spun up a proof of concept on his own credit card and walked the customer through it live. Six months later, that account expanded into the largest commercial deal in company history.

Chapter 2 of Sales Engineering, Unfiltered covers what a Sales Engineer actually does, and why the demo is only about twenty percent of it:

• Why the job title has two words, and what happens when an SE is missing either half
• Being “coin operated”: the three questions to ask before you commit time to any request
• Why “I don’t know, but I’ll find out” builds more trust than bluffing

Every chapter ends with an action plan you can start this week.

New chapters drop every week. Find the full audiobook under Season 3 of this feed. Next week: Chapter 3, The Windshield Test.

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Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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A Fortnite player allegedly dared the FBI to show up at his door over voice chat. Epic reported him, and the FBI obliged three days later.

-https://www.dexerto.com/fortnite/fortnite-player-arrested-by-fbi-after-epic-games-report-his-voice-chat-threats-3416033/

A suspected South Korean bank hacker allegedly asked Claude Code to write a résumé bragging about his ARTEX hacking ops, complete with his own phone number and Telegram handle.

-https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/10-08-2026-korean-bank-hacker-asked-claude-where-to-sell-stolen-data-crowdstrike-says-375059181193646

-https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/unknown-threat-actor-uses-artex-to-target-south-korean-finance/

Microsoft Teams is adding third-party deepfake detection and impersonation warnings to meetings, with general availability slated for November.

-https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-teams-to-add-third-party-deepfake-detection-impersonation-protection/

Amazon's "About You" page shows what it has inferred about you from your shopping, and one shopper learned Amazon thinks she has "flat buttocks."

-https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/amazon-users-discover-bizarre-about-you-page-detailing-their-interests-how-to-check-yours-3416457/

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Ben K. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-k-b7196831/

Year one, a big enterprise prospect, and a 30-slide deck nobody asked for. Thirty minutes in, the CISO stopped Chris cold, and that night a bar napkin became his first real discovery framework.

Chapter 1 of Sales Engineering, Unfiltered introduces the three voices behind the book and the lessons they wish someone had handed them on day one:

• Why the best SEs treat every customer conversation like a two-way interview
• Why learning how to learn beats mastering today’s product
• How to use this book, whether you’re brand new to the SE seat or years in

Every chapter ends with an action plan you can start this week.

New chapters drop every week. Find the full audiobook under Season 3 of this feed. Next week: Chapter 2, Twenty Percent Demos.

📘 Get the book (paperback and Kindle): https://www.amazon.com/Sales-Engineering-Unfiltered-What-Someone/dp/B0HLWSJ448 ⭐ If it helps you, an Amazon review helps us more than you’d think. 🎙️ More from the PEBCAK Podcast: chrislouie.net

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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California's athletic commission slaps a robot fight league with a cease and desist after a Terminator-inspired humanoid push-kicked an influencer into the cage wall.

• https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/california-sends-cease-desist-fight-125530914.html
• https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2105795226103058621

An Airbnb host demanded $1,700 for an overflowing toilet with an AI-generated photo, and Google's own SynthID watermark ratted them out.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1wt6sb0/photo_of_a_toilet_airbnb_sent_in_justification/

Bitget lost $388M after attackers used a zero-day in a third-party security product to inject fake withdrawal commands straight into its wallet backend.

• https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-28-bitget-attacker-tested-risk-controls-small-transfers-388-million-theft-ceo-says-417045
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bitget-hacked-via-zero-day-in-third-party-security-products/

Managers are trying to figure out where the line is on team happy hours when every joke can end up timestamped in Slack and in front of HR.

• https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/happy-hour-office-after-work-drinks-over-0daf6b60

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Ben C. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincorll/

Ben K. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-k-b7196831/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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ShinyHunters Hack the FBI, Waymo Snitches & OreoGate Was an Ad

Anthropic drops Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-level performance, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5, and shipped with Fable-style cyber safeguards.

-https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/22/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5/

-https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998868/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5-cybersecurity

ShinyHunters claims an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day got them into the FBI, 2-3TB of employee and applicant data, and a defaced FBI Jobs site, all as payback for a May FBI FLASH report.

-https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shinyhunters-claims-fbi-hack-data-theft-in-peoplesoft-zero-day-breach/

China's internet regulator is grilling DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both labs secretly relayed user requests, including police-related work, to Claude.

-https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-probes-deepseek-moonshot-potential-data-leaks-anthropic

-https://gizmodo.com/china-probes-deepseek-moonshot-ai-over-anthropics-claims-they-route-requests-to-claude-2000815507

A Waymo pulled itself over and called SFPD on two teen riders carrying a loaded AR-style homemade gun, and nobody's saying who was watching the cabin camera.

-https://www.theverge.com/transportation/994405/waymo-pulls-over-calls-cops-on-riders-with-a-ghost-gun

-https://www.nssf.org/articles/lawful-gun-owners-should-be-wary-of-rideshare-options/

The viral OreoGate kindergarten snack war was a paid Suno AI partnership, and the creator still won't say if the group chat was real.

-https://www.dexerto.com/food/viral-oreogate-mom-drama-was-a-paid-ai-ad-and-its-creator-wont-say-if-it-was-real-3403588/

In this episode:

- Claude Opus 5.5 launches with Fable-level performance at a lower price

- ShinyHunters claims an FBI breach via a PeopleSoft zero-day

- China investigates DeepSeek and Moonshot over data relayed to Claude

- Waymo robotaxi calls the cops on riders with a ghost gun

- OreoGate: viral mom drama exposed as a paid AI ad

Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)

Find the hosts on LinkedIn:

Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Ben - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincorll/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW)

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Wheel of Fortune's announcer says he wandered into a ped*phile chatroom by accident — but the same username left a two-year trail on a second forum.

- https://shootingthemessenger.blog/2026/09/04/scoop-a-pseudonym-used-by-wheel-of-fortune-announcer-was-active-on-second-child-abuse-forum/

• Pseudonym reuse is forensics: Jim Thornton was fired from Wheel of Fortune hours after TMZ published photos of him posting into a chatroom from a plane under the handle "NicholasB77." His lawyer's defense was that he mistook it for a suicide-prevention site. An independent journalist then found the same handle on a second pedophile forum, posting from mid-2023 to late-2025 — praising that chatroom, coaching other members on staying hidden, and repeatedly posting a photo of a topless boy. One recycled username across two sites is the entire story. Thornton has not been charged.

Dutch police baited a bank-helpdesk scam with a fake pensioner, the courier showed up, and the court acquitted him anyway.

- https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2026:8867

• The decoy that was too good: police seeded phishing sites with a fake pensioner's details, got the scam call a day later, and arrested the courier who came to collect. Amsterdam's court acquitted him. Under Dutch law, fraud requires that someone was actually deceived, and the decoy clocked the script on the first call. Prosecutors charged completed fraud instead of attempt. The judges basically said attempt would have stuck, but it wasn't on the indictment. Great sting, wrong paperwork.

Trezor's shipping-vendor breach now reaches 81,000 customers, and in Mexico a family was murdered over a $1.5M hardware wallet.

- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trezor-data-breach-impact-now-reaches-81-000-customers/

- https://decrypt.co/377795/mexican-family-killed-bitcoin-cold-wallet

• Your shipping data is your threat model: Trezor's breach grew from 14,000 to 81,000 customers after logistics provider ShipMonk failed to delete data it had contractually promised to delete. Attackers got in via a Metabase SQL injection zero-day — the same campaign that hit Framework and Tally — and ShinyHunters has sent extortion mail. Leaked names, addresses, and phone numbers of confirmed hardware-wallet buyers is a wrench-attack shopping list. See also: four people killed in Atizapán, Mexico on September 1, allegedly by a business associate who knew about the Bitcoin in the house.

Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event delivered a foldable iPhone Duo, a 2nm chip, and a $100 price hike that's really $300.

- https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/apple-september-2026-event-recap/

• Apple's fall lineup: foldable iPhone Duo (pre-orders Oct 16, ships Oct 23), iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max on the A20 Pro, the first 2nm phone chip, with variable aperture cameras, a tripled vapor chamber, and up to 45 hours of battery. Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, AirPods 5 with ANC standard, iOS 27 on September 14. The security-adjacent bits: Apple Reference Image for photo authenticity, the new C2 modem, and Siri AI daily usage limits with "expanded access" for a fee.

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Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/

Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/

Matt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/disher/