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by JustAnotherOldGuy (#66329220) Attached to: LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby

but you can for instance revoke all microphone consent and avoid any concerns of your audio being sent to LG.

Trusting LG to stop spying on me by telling them "stop spying on me" requires a level of trust I simply do not have. Does anyone really believe that LG will honor any of your choices?

I seriously hope no one thinks that clicking a checkbox actually turns off the LG spy features, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

Submission + - Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now (appleinsider.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Smart televisions have a history of being a privacy problem for users. Repeated reports have surfaced over the years about them logging how you use the television, as well as misusing sensors intended to monitor the viewers.

In a September investigation by Gamers Nexus posted to YouTube, LG's smart TVs still continue to be a privacy nightmare. It's pretty bad, given that some models are capable of eavesdropping on your conversations.

Working with security researchers and Level1Techs, the lengthy video put LG OLED televisions under a microscope. Using various tools, including capturing packets with Wireshark, it was found to be conducting a wide array of actions that disregard user privacy, and then sending that data back to LG.

Submission + - CA passes 3D Printer Law to Prevent Automatic Conversion Kit & "Ghost Guns" (ammoland.com)

Submitted by kenh
kenh writes: From the article:



The version that reached (Gov. Newsom's) desk is far narrower than the bill that first cleared the Assembly in May. The Senate stripped several of the most aggressive enforcement tools after lawmakers and industry groups argued they were technologically infeasible or overbroad. Gone are the original criminal misdemeanor for disabling the software, the $25,000-per-violation civil penalties, the mandatory manufacturer self-attestation process, and a public roster of âoecompliantâ models. The final text keeps an exemption for printers used exclusively to make entertainment-industry props and lets the California Department of Justice create additional exceptions by regulation. It also shields people who share digital firearm files solely to test or develop blocking software. What remains is a delayed, contingent mandate. Beginning no later than July 1, 2027, the DOJ must check quarterly whether ASTM International has published industry standards for firearm-blocking technology on 3D printers. If ASTM issues qualifying standards, the department then has 24 months to publish its own written guidance or regulations describing minimum performance requirements. One year after those state standards appear, it would become unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or transfer a 3D printer in California that lacks compliant blocking technology. If ASTM has not published standards by July 1, 2029, the department is relieved of further duties under the act, and the sales restriction may never take effect. The bill does not operate in a vacuum. California already prohibits unlicensed people from using a 3D printer or CNC mill to manufacture a firearm under Penal Code  29185. Separate statutes restrict machines whose âoesole or primary functionâ is to make guns and create civil liability for distributing âoedigital firearm manufacturing codeâ to unlicensed persons. AB 1263 and related 2025â"26 measures further expanded definitions of firearm manufacturing machines and accessories effective January 1, 2026. AB 2047 tries to move one step upstream by making the printer itself refuse certain files.

Submission + - Trump reveals new Space Force uniforms inspired by 'Starship Troopers' (nypost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: People on social media were quick to quip that the uniforms were also reminiscent of the Imperial officers in Star Wars.

“SWEET your [sic] going galactic empire! Let the Force be with you lol!” one person joked.

“Looking a whole like like Stars Wars Imperial Army Officer uniform,” another agreed.

Submission + - A Modern Greek Tragedy (reuters.com)

Submitted by Valgrus Thunderaxe
Valgrus Thunderaxe writes: Five die when an Amazon Prime Air plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport and crashed into a parking lot full of Teslas. Among the Teslas were 26 new Tesla Cybercabs.

Submission + - Road trip comparison - EV, hybrid, and gas (caranddriver.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

Each car mostly followed the same route, but different lunch breaks and bathroom stops resulted in slightly different distances traveled. The Tesla covered 752 miles and consumed 243 kWh with four DC charging stops and two AC visits. Its total electricity bill was $85.70, or 11 cents per mile.

The Jetta GLI stayed closest to the highway for stops, making its total distance the shortest at 737 miles. It consumed 24.1 gallons of premium at a rate of 31 mpg, resulting in a $129.98 tab.

I found it surprising that for 700 mile trip EV was only cheaper by 44 dollars.

Submission + - Surveillance and hidden data sharing by Europol

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Surveillance and hidden data sharing by Europol

“This grant supports a case by Netherlands-based activist, Frank van der Linde. The case involves an application to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to consider the legality of actions by Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency.”

“In 2019, Frank van der Linde discovered that the Dutch police had recorded his personal data in a terrorism watchlist and forwarded his profile to Europol. Mr. van der Linde requested access to the file, which was denied by Europol. He then filed a complaint to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) in October 2020.”

Submission + - Case Study: Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Attack

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Case Study: Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Attack

“Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) suffered two cyber attacks in 2025, the last one being the United Kingdom’s costliest cyber incident and the first cyberattack to materially affect UK GDP growth.

The September attack forced a five-week global operational shutdown, affecting over 33,000 JLR employees, 5,000 organisations and 200,000 jobs across the supply chain.

The Cyber Monitoring Centre classified this incident as a Category 3 systemic event, representing unprecedented economic damage from a single cyber breach.”

Infosecurity Europe: Why JLR’s CISO Enforced In-Person Password Resets Following Cyber-Attack

“When Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was hit by a major cyber-attack in September 2025, one of the first things the company’s cybersecurity leader did was to call over 30,000 staff on site to reset their passwords.”

Submission + - OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns Nobody Is Prepared for Rapidly Advancing AI (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has published an unusually stark warning about the direction of artificial intelligence. Pachocki says internal results give him a strong expectation that todayâ(TM)s pace of AI progress could continue into recursive self-improvement, with increasingly capable systems helping drive their own development. He warns that nobody is prepared for a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence and says AI is becoming increasingly difficult to fully understand as capabilities grow.

Pachocki also warns that AI models are becoming superhuman at breaking into and out of computer systems, while future agents could bargain with, trick, or blackmail people while pursuing objectives. His conclusion is particularly striking: he currently believes no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to responsibly continue scaling at maximum speed for much longer. He expects voluntary slowdowns and argues that international coordination on AI development should become a top government priority.

Submission + - Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China's AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road (lawfaremedia.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: China’s open-weight AI models are sparking debates that echo the concerns the telecom buildout raised: How does the majority world access an indispensable technology without surrendering sovereignty, or in other words, without trading access today for dependency tomorrow?

China’s playbook appears virtually identical to its telecom strategy. Its AI buildout involves many of the same companies, the same countries, and the same vocabulary as its broadband strategy. And open weights play the role subsidized equipment once did: They are the keystone to an indispensable new technology that one country can provide to another virtually for free to get a foot in the door, but they are also useless without the intricate, interconnected stack of other components that, conveniently, are far more expensive.

Submission + - One Country Controls Nearly All the World's Kratom (kratom.news)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Indonesia is the origin point for effectively the entire global kratom supply, and roughly 95 percent of it lands in the United States. Almost all of it grows in Kalimantan (Borneo), where the crop supports an estimated 200,000 farming households. Jakarta spent years threatening a ban, then in September 2024 chose regulation instead, treating kratom as an export commodity: mandatory lab testing for heavy metals and contamination, powder-only shipments, farm licensing, and export quotas. The rollout was rough. Containers sat stalled at port, the first compliant shipment (351 tons) did not clear until February 2025, and leaf prices spiked. Now the government caps kratom exports by decree even as US states legislate demand away, ten now ban it outright.

Submission + - More Wisconsin Municipalities Cancel Flock Camera Contracts

Submitted by MAurelius
MAurelius writes: Apparently Flock Safety was collecting five years of data from various cities, anonymizing it, and repackaging the data for corporate promotional purposes and training. The municipalities and university in the story were unaware of Flock's retention of five years of their data. Those twelve today announced they are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety. https://www.jsonline.com/story...

Submission + - Musk wins court order to block use of "Twitter," but not "tweet" and bird logo (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely to prove that X had entirely abandoned the Twitter name. Therefore, X was likely to succeed on trademark infringement and dilution claims tied to the platform’s former name.

Most compellingly, X argued that it still uses the Twitter name in the current listing for the X app in Apple’s App Store. In the first sentence of that listing, written in the same size font as the rest of the text, a single clause clinched the early court win for X by stating, “Welcome to X (formerly known as Twitter).”

X was not as successful in its claims that it had not abandoned other Twitter marks, including uses of the term “tweet” and the bird logo.

Musk’s public claims that “soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds” and “we’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blow torches” provided “compelling evidence that X Corp. harbors an intent not to resume use of the Tweet mark and Bird logo,” the judge found. Therefore, Operation Bluebird is likely to prove that X abandoned those trademarks.

For Operation Bluebird, the goal is to launch a service to rival Musk’s that is member-owned, rather than billionaire-owned and controlled. For $20, users can join and get rid of X’s “trust problem,” the tweet.app site said.

Submission + - Former Obama Official-It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on CCP Data Centers (scmp.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The United States should start preparing for scenarios where extreme measures must be taken to stop China from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a former White House official, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres.

Jacob Stokes, deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), said at an online event on Thursday that various US agencies, including the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, should begin assessing what intelligence they need to justify taking such actions.

“Trying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons and work backwards from the science to the policy implications,” he said.

In a new CNAS report published last week, the former Obama administration national security staffer called for the US government to consider the feasibility of diplomatic, espionage, cyber and kinetic measures to prevent China from achieving AGI first.

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