"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update

Posted by RachelF on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:28PM
from the notebookcheck.net dept.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-refrigerator-is-dead-Samsung-s-AI-fridges-shut-down-after-update-causes-outrage.1406447.0.html

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by rekabis on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:24PM (#49873245)

And this is why the only Samsung products I have are RAM and SSDs.

And the SSDs are backed up daily.

Samsung should not have gotten into appliances. They seem to be singularly terrible in that field. No-one else comes even close to their level of incompetence.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by JohnFen on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:59AM (#49876123)

They've been making refrigerators since 1974, far longer than they've been making RAM and SSDs.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by atmanactive on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:52AM (#49878974)

Out of 10 different SSD make and model I have in use around the house, the only one I ever had problems with were Samsung.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by ChrisArchitect on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:16PM (#49872793)

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829960

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by hilbert42 on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:19AM (#49874287)

This is one instance where I've no sympathy for the consumer. You buy a fridge to keep things cold—not watch videos or have the fridge connect to the internet.

What on earth would possess anyone to buy an AI/screen based fridge in the first place? Screen addiction must be worse than I'd realized.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by helpfulmandrill on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:23AM (#49875462)

You say that, but I have been trying to find a non-smart TV for months, Consumers don't always have much choice.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by JohnFen on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:57AM (#49876105)

Refrigerators aren't (yet, anyway) one of those appliances where there's no choice.

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Re:"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut dow... by hilbert42 on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:50PM (#49886072)

Agreed. It's difficult to find one these days. My solution is to use a computer monitor and a Set Top Box/PVR. Been doing that for some years now.

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