In Other News: Anthropic Breach Dispute, UEFI Flaw Hits Most Servers, Cloudflare AI Data Leak

Summary

US officials suspect Iran-linked hackers caused freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at about six military base commissaries from late August, with Cyber Command and Defense Department units investigating alongside French authorities. Hackers also overrode refrigeration controls at roughly 350 French establishments. A critical 16-year-old buffer overflow (CVE-2026-97631) in TianoCore EDK II, used by most server firmware suppliers, lets an attacker with local network access exploit machines during network (PXE) boot.

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