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LG ties TV security updates to accepting AI voice recording
Owners of LG smart TVs who refuse the company's new webOS terms stop receiving security patches, according to Notebookcheck, while the terms themselves hand owners sole responsibility for wiretapping-law consent when the sets' default-on AI voice features capture guests.…
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LG monitors silently install adware with full system access
Testing shows that connecting an LG monitor to a Windows PC triggers Windows Update to install the LG Monitor App Installer with no consent screen, after which the app begins serving McAfee trial pop-ups.…
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Anthropic Tried to Phantom Charge $16.6M
A phantom invoice from Anthropic's Stripe billing grew roughly tenfold in a single day, the user reports zero usage, and the company will only say it…
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Adult Content Now Drives Most of Grok's Traffic
xAI is reportedly doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots and faces legal scrutiny on multiple continents over sexualized deepfakes.…
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Two Frontier AI Models Ship on the Same Day: Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6
Two of the biggest names in AI shipped flagship models on the same day. xAI released Grok 4.5, and OpenAI opened up GPT-5.6. They arrive…
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Proton Calls Windows GDID Spyware
A US federal complaint revealed how the FBI used Microsoft's barely documented Global Device ID to trace an alleged Scattered Spider member through his VPN. Proton…
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Tata Electronics Leaked iPhone 18 Pro Photos and Designs
A ransomware group known as World Leaks has published more than 200,000 files, a collection of roughly 630GB, stolen from Tata Electronics, one of Apple's…
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Inside the Big Tech Scramble to Court Trump, and Why Musk Came Out Ahead
A forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, obtained by WIRED, describes Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai and Cook courting Trump after the 2024 election.…