What strikes me as odd is how many of these pirate operations seem to register their domain names with US companies and host on US infrastructure. If you ran a pirate TV site, surely you'd see that as a major vulnerability? TFA even says that it appears domains registered outside the US (Russia and the Netherlands) remained active.

Lol... what? Tell me you don't understand Google without telling me you don't understand Google.

All that query does is tell you all the sites that Google has indexed under that address, which is obviously a small subset of all the links that exist.

You genuinely think they had a page with all the share links (which have random GUIDs) in a big list ready to be crawled? No, and Anthropic said as much:

So, these links escaped by other means. Does Chrome automatically send pages it hasn't indexed to Google when they're viewed (which would be dodgy, but also not surprising) or did people actually post them in places where Google could see them? It's simply one or the other.

It's not possible for Google (or anyone) to simply conjure up every single valid link - there's a reason GUIDs exist; they're globally unique.

How would that work? You think they had a page with all the share links (which have random GUIDs) in a big list ready to be crawled? Doesn't seem likely at all. Much more likely: these links escaped by other means. Does Chrome automatically send pages it hasn't indexed to Google when they're viewed or did people actually post them publicly?

Requires no education, just "vibes". All you have to do is read from a corporate script, and be open to being exploited by having no say in which companies you choose to represent until you strike it big. Success is absolutely not guaranteed, competition is fierce and simply by being highly visible on socials you become a target for weirdos. Sounds like hell to me.

OFFENCE TAKEN! Offence... taken.

Exactly. This is a non-story. The page is readable by anyone if they know the URL. If you post that URL on socials, Google's crawlers are going to find it. Dumb users do dumb things, although in this case it appears Anthropic may have reached out to Google and got them to remove (or hide) everything under site:claude.ai/share - which at least mitigates the issue for now.

You're wrong.

There wasn't one monitor that kicked this off - multiple models were affected (at least 8), nor did it only affect new installs.
Colour gamut is controlled by the driver and profiles can be configured on the monitor itself. It does not require an app to function.
Calibration requires a separately-purchased calibration sensor. No LG monitors ship with an included calibration sensor. Without one, the LG Calibration app is useless.
The speakers and microphone have their own driver. They can be controlled from the monitor itself, or through standard Windows interfaces. They do not require any apps to function.
The LED lighting can be configured from the monitor itself. It does not require an app to function.

Sit down, be quiet and stop spreading blatant misinformation.

The LG Monitor App Installer is not the driver - it's an ad serving/data gathering platform disguised as a utility that downloads and installs LG other apps, specifically: OnScreen Control, LG Switch, Dual Controller and LG Calibration Studio. If you don't know what those apps do, that is fine because they are completely unnecessary - the monitor will work absolutely fine without them. LG auto-install it because it makes them money.

Source: I have an LG gaming monitor with none of the shitty LG apps installed. It works fine using the built-in controls.

It's "languishing" because the rest of his post is shit.

In conversation, people sometimes use "random" to mean "unexpected". In this case, plugging in a monitor and your computer automatically installing an app that bombards you with adverts for McAfee on every boot would be unexpected for most people. Connecting new hardware has not resulted in automatic install of blatant adware "for a long time". If it had been then this would have been a non-story, instead of being widely covered on tech news sites.

Doesn't matter that it's not Tor; it's a distinction without a difference. It might not use the onion protocol but the end result is the same: someone else's traffic is coming out of your Internet connection - likely without your informed consent. I suspect thegarbz simply didn't understand what a residential proxy is.

Would be... except CXMT can't scale up quickly because of US export controls on the equipment required to manufacture high-end DDR5. They'll need to roll (let's be honest - steal) their own.

Will they actually miss the revenue from Windows Search promotional content that must have a non-accidental clickthrough ratio in the margin-of-error range? You could probably cover the revenue from this in about 10 mins of Azure fees.

There is only one - CXMT - and it's a few years behind the big three, mostly because the US places export controls on semiconductor production equipment, so CXMT can't scale up without reinventing the wheel.

"Desperately hoping for", you mean. There are predictions of both "AI investment continues to rocket upwards for several years" and "AI bubble burst imminent, most AI companies will implode and consolidate" all over the web. The truth is nobody knows when it is going to happen, or exactly how bad it will be. If they did, the stock market would reflect it, but so far we've only seen a slight slowing of investment. Everyone is waiting for the signal but nobody agrees what the signal actually is.

It doesn't matter if you say "we're just gonna clone your product and pay you peanuts for the privilege" when the factories to clone those products don't exist in your country, and it'll take multiple years and multiple billions to set them up.

Will never happen in USA. Too many politicians getting too many donations from health insurance lobbyists. You've been locked into this inexorable downward spiral since Citizens United v. FEC in 2009 which cemented in law the concept that "money is speech", fundamentally guaranteeing that the richest corporations have more "speech" than anyone else.