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Amazon taps Uber Eats, Musk's midterm money comes up short, and hackers go after the blood bank freezers.
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Amazon picks Uber Eats as the official restaurant delivery partner for US Prime members, who can order from Uber Eats on Amazon.com with no delivery fee on orders of $25 or more. The tie-up arrives a week after DoorDash agreed to acquire Instacart, reshaping Uber's competition for the delivery market.
Why it matters Uber gains a distribution channel inside Amazon's shopping site just as its main rivals consolidate, and Prime members get a new reason to order restaurant food through Amazon.
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Hackers target French blood banks by reaching refrigeration controls at three national blood service sites and raising temperature settings, part of a wider wave of attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe. Staff caught the change before any blood plasma supply was damaged, and the attack went through a refrigeration equipment provider, according to the blood service's own confirmation of the supplier breach.
Why it matters Attacks on the suppliers of industrial cooling equipment can reach critical medical supplies, and this one was stopped only because alerts and staff caught it in time.
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Apple will scan shared iCloud links for harmful content, starting with iOS 27.3 and the matching iPadOS, macOS and visionOS updates. It applies to items shared with the Anyone with the link option, and Apple has not defined the term, with possible account penalties for violations in the new rules.
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GhostMap crashes Android phones into a persistent boot loop using an app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions. Bitdefender researchers found the flaw in how Android reads ZIP structure, and on a Pixel 10 it can take a factory reset to clear, as described in their GhostMap findings.
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