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Food's one fresh headline this week arrives through a cyberattack, not a trend piece

A hack that forced French supermarket fridges to defrost gives food its only dated sweep evidence of the week, landing the infrastructure story on the grocery aisle instead of the data center.

Sweep carries it, confirmed independently by radar's own Hacker News board, and the week's quietest domain gets a headline it didn't ask for.

nextBody holds the board's lead for a second day, still with nothing to confirm itTech's softest reading again carries threads invisible on its own boardsThe Cornell case gets its first real movement since the story broke, and the sweep carries it alone
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