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ICYMI (from the not-all-cyber-news-is-horrible dept), a cyberattack on a U.S. vehicle breathalyzer company has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their vehicles. This story positively cries out for a headline-writing contest. TechCrunch reports:

"The company, Intoxalock, says on its website that it is “currently experiencing downtime” after a cyberattack on March 14. Intoxalock sells breathalyzer devices that fit into vehicle ignition switches, and is used by people who are required to provide a negative alcohol breath sample to start their car."

techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/cybe

This is a crazy, developing story. And here you thought *your* organization's patch management routines were strict: From Christopher Kunz at Heise:

"A serious security vulnerability in the Windchill and FlexPLM products prompted a nationwide police response over the weekend. At the behest of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), officers from across Germany were dispatched to alert affected companies – an unprecedented move. Administrators, whose weekends were disrupted, expressed their irritation – some of whom don't even use the compromised software."

"When the editorial team received a tip late Sunday morning about a critical security vulnerability in Windchill and FlexPLM , it sounded like a routine report: A deserialization vulnerability in specialized software, even with a CVSS score of 10, doesn't cause any alarm at heise security. The situation was apparently quite different at the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA): By that time, they had already alerted the state criminal police offices (LKA) in various federal states, which dispatched police officers to affected companies during the night. As several readers reported to us in the forum , police officers were standing outside company and private premises in the dead of night."

heise.de/news/WTF-Polizei-ruec

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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today

apnews.com/article/atlanta-air

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?