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LG's Monitor App Installer software was found sneaking pop-up ads, disguised as driver updates, onto customers' PCs, with McAfee promotions appearing at every boot even on premium $1,200 UltraGear monitors. After PC hardware outlet Gamers Nexus exposed the issue, Microsoft stepped in and pressured LG to pull the ads.
OCaml maintainer Anil Madhavapeddy disclosed a path traversal vulnerability in cohttp 6.3.0 and found that attackers began probing his live server with the exact exploit pattern just minutes after he opened a public GitHub pull request to fix it. He also demonstrated that AI coding agents like DeepSeek V4 Pro could independently rediscover the bug and build a working exploit in under a minute, using only a vague description of the issue.
A YouGov poll of 20,000 Americans shared with The Washington Post found 46% oppose license plate reader surveillance in their communities, versus 38% in favor, flipping last year's majority support. Flock, which operates over 120,000 such cameras nationwide, has faced backlash after reports of police misuse, prompting several communities to drop or reject contracts.
MSI's new Katana 15 HX C14 gaming laptop offers a choice of DDR4-3200 or DDR5 memory across two regional variants, a move aimed at keeping prices down amid soaring DRAM costs. The laptop can be configured with up to a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, alongside dual PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 slots and a cooling system rated for 170W combined power.
According to The Information, the Trump administration is preparing a new export control aimed at closing a loophole that lets Chinese firms tap advanced AI compute through remote servers hosted in Thailand and Singapore, countries not currently bound by China-specific chip restrictions. The Commerce Department could circulate the draft rule to industry groups for feedback as early as September.
Meta is pushing an update that stops its AI glasses from recording if the indicator LED is covered mid-capture, closing a workaround where users could start filming and then hide the light afterward. Wearables executive Alex Himel confirmed the fix on Threads, saying it ensures the light reliably signals to bystanders when they're being filmed.
Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app founded by former Instagram engineers Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson, closed a Series A round of more than $21 million in December, according to an SEC filing spotted by Business Insider. The filing was made under the startup's legal name, Lone Palm Labs, and Pitchbook now pegs the company's valuation above $100 million.
Android phones let users set alarm volume independently from media, ringtone, and notification volumes, which can cause alarms to stay quiet even when other sounds are audible. Users can adjust alarm volume through the expanded volume menu or via Settings > Sound & vibration > Volume, and should also check Do Not Disturb settings to ensure alarms aren't being silenced.
A user ran Alibaba's new Qwen3.8 27B model locally on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra for 10 days, using it for daily tasks like summarizing RSS feeds and renaming scanned PDFs, then formally benchmarked it against its predecessor. The Q4_K_M version generated at about 14 tokens per second versus 28.6 tokens/s for Qwen3.6 27B, but produced answers using roughly a third as many tokens, making total response time nearly equal. A 1-bit quantized version ran much faster at 27 tokens/s and stayed factually accurate but struggled to commit to definitive answers.
The Chinese embassy in Kathmandu reported that a barrier lake created by an ice-rock avalanche remains at a high water level and is overflowing. Officials from China and Nepal are jointly monitoring the site to assess the risk of the lake breaching its banks.
Nvidia has registered a new federal political action committee that will collect voluntary donations of up to $5,000 a year from eligible employees to fund candidates and party committees. The company told staff that upcoming congressional decisions on AI regulation, export controls and infrastructure could significantly affect the industry. This move follows Nvidia's hiring of a new chief external affairs officer and five outside lobbying firms, alongside a jump in federal lobbying spending to over $2.5 million this year.
A developer investigating containerized Rust performance found that musl's default memory allocator is significantly slower than glibc's, not just under high concurrency but even on modest 4-core EC2 instances. Swapping in mimalloc or jemalloc narrows the gap but doesn't close it—one workload remained 26% slower—because several of musl's core memory routines are themselves inefficient, not just its allocator.