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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-08 12:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 21:53:44

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models Markus Schütz, Christoph Peters, Florian Hahlbohm, Elmar Eisemann, Marcus Magnor, Michael Wimmer. 2025–06 in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. HPG) 44, 8. Official version Abstract We present Splatshop, a highly optimized toolbox for interactive editing (selection, deletion, painting, transformation, ...) of 3D Gaussian Splatting models. Utilizing a comprehensive collection of heuristic approaches, we carefully balance between exact an

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Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 15:00:02

By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voice of people the call recipient knows. Often, the result is what sounds like a grandchild, CEO, or work colleague you’ve known for years reporting an urgent matter requiring immediate action, saying wiring money, divulging login credentials, or visiting a malicious website. Researchers and government officials have been warning of the threat for years, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency saying in

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Best Mattress 2025: We’ve Tested 100+ so You Can Sleep Soundly

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2025-12-08 14:03:00

Honorable Mentions Here are a few more products we liked but didn't love as much as the ones above. The Saatva Contour5 for $2,599: The Contour5 is a new offering from Saatva, replacing the popular Loom & Leaf in the company's lineup. Like other Saatva mattresses, but unlike most others on this list, it is not roll-packed and comes delivered on a moving truck. The Contour5 has two firmness options and updated cooling tech that uses airflow channels in its gel foam layer, which is thinner than

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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-08 18:30:00

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can be linked to your Gmail inbox, allowed to inspect your GitHub code, or find appointments in your Microsoft calendar. But these connections have the potential to be abused—and researchers have shown it can take just a single “poisoned” document to do so. New findings from security researchers Mich

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Android 16 QPR1 makes it easier to find your recent apps with its taskbar overflow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 04:13:19

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Android 16 QPR1 release will add a taskbar overflow button to improve app switching on tablets when many apps have been recently opened. Tapping the overflow button will open a horizontally scrolling carousel that displays previews of your recent apps. This feature is live in the latest Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 release, suggesting it will be available in the September stable release of Android 16 QPR1. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (05:13 PM ET): The tas

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Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:15:57

Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. The abused driver is 'rwdrv.sys' (used by ThrottleStop), which the threat actors register as a service to gain kernel-level access. This driver is likely used to load a second driver, 'hlpdrv.sys,' a malicious tool that manipulates Windows Defender to turn off its protections. This is a 'Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver' (BYOVD) at

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Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-09 17:33:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

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Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 14:47:02

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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This Gaming Handheld’s External Battery Isn’t as Dumb as You Think

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-10 04:11:26

As we’re waiting for the ROG Xbox Ally and the next generation of slightly more powerful gaming handhelds to hit the scene, I’m stuck thinking about where portable gaming could go if designers got a little weirder with it. China-based company GPD, known for offering off-kilter laptops that straddle a business and gamer lifestyle, has a handheld PC that’s equal parts enticing and ludicrous. It’s the battery, of all things, that makes the device stand out, literally. The GPD Win 5 handheld PC bea

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NASA Approves Ted Cruz’s Plan to Move a Space Shuttle to Houston, Setting Up a Fight With the Smithsonian

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-10 04:40:56

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to house one of the iconic vehicles. If the chosen vehicle is Discovery—which it likely is—the Smithsonian, which houses the vehicle, may put up a fight. The Trump administration included the shuttle’s relocation in the budget reconciliation bill, signed it into law on July 4, and set aside $85 million for the move and construction of a new facility in Houston. At the time, Te

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Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 14:04:13

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as 'UNC6040' is targeting companies' employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data. This data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being leaked. In a brief update to

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Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 18:51:14

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as 'UNC6040' is targeting companies' employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data. This data is then used to extort companies into paying a ransom to prevent the data from being leaked. In a brief update to

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Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 00:00:01

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing a new ‘Action Corners’ feature for Android, which could be similar to ‘Hot Corners’ on macOS. This feature may allow users to trigger actions, like launching Recent apps or opening notifications, by moving the cursor to one of the four corners of the screen. The feature is not yet live but may be part of a broader push to make Android a more capable operating system for PCs. Shortcuts are crucial for saving time on any device, but

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Google's latest Pixel update fixes unresponsive button issue

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 23:30:24

Google is rolling a fix for a bug that made some Pixel users' three-button navigation unresponsive with its monthly software update this August. As The Verge notes, after the company released Android 16 in June, Pixel users have been reporting that their buttons are being unresponsive or that it's taking up to 30 seconds for their device to register a tap. Some said they have to press the back button several times for the three-button menu to start working. Users from across Pixel models, includ

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Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 06:12:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a Material 3 Expressive redesign for the Gboard app settings. The redesign features a card-style user interface and a rearranged settings menu with new descriptions. Gboard is one of those apps I cannot live without, so much so that I even install it on my iPhones (which sounds blasphemous, but it works great). On Android phones, Google is working to bring a Material 3 Expressive redesign for Gboard settings, so you can enjoy a co

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The Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station is my go-to portable power station for picnics and camping

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:30:44

Ampace Andes 1500 Portable Power Station The Ampace Andes 1500 strikes the perfect balance between powerful performance and portability that a power station needs for both indoor and outdoor use. It can output a massive 2,400W, four AC outlets for running high-power electronics, and plenty of other ports for normal electronics. And while not tiny, it is smaller and lighter than alternatives that can't even match it for power. Power stations are quickly becoming a big trend in lifestyle tech, wh

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Galaxy S26 Edge leak reveals just how thin Samsung’s next Edge could be

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 10:48:48

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge will be 5.5mm thin. This means it could be as thick as the rumored iPhone 17 Air and slightly thinner than the Galaxy S25 Edge. The leaker also reiterated that the phone could have a 4,200mAh battery. Numerous leaks suggest that Samsung will replace the Galaxy S26 Plus with the Galaxy S26 Edge. This phone is expected to offer a thin form factor similar to that of the Galaxy S25 Edge, and we’ve now got

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Software Rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 11:35:19

Software rot is generally thought of as degradation of software due to a changing environment. For example, a program written a decade ago may no longer work with new versions of the libraries it depends on because some of them have changed without retaining backwards compatibility. This kind of thinking encourages a culture where software becomes obsolete unless it is constantly maintained. A better approach might be to talk about the reliability of the environment the software depends on. Wou

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Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 10:13:17

Alright, let's have a real talk. For years, the AI world has been obsessed with BIG. Big models, big data, big GPUs, and even bigger cloud bills. Most text-to-speech (TTS) models today are heavyweight champs of burning cash. We're talking about multi-billion parameter, GPU-guzzling monsters that need more silicon than your phone, your laptop, and maybe your entire neighborhood combined. They give you great voices, sure... but only if you're willing to sign away your firstborn to AWS. Forget tha

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:16:39

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees. "We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use," reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers. "We stopped the access and have further stren

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Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-11 22:02:40

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn't betrayed humanity in favor of profits. Referring to themselves as the "legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission" — that is, members of the human species OpenAI pledged to benefit when it was granted nonprofit status in 2015 — the open letter, signed by the likes of AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton and AI researcher Gary Marcus, charges the Sam Altman-run company with essentially

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Hands-on: BMX SolidSafe Solid-State Battery Pack [Video]

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-12 04:36:31

Recently there have been over 1.7 million mobile power banks recalled. The reason? Most power banks still use lithium-ion cells filled with flammable liquid electrolytes that present a real risk. Drop it, leave it in heat, or overcharge it, puncture it – and it can swell, and even ignite causing fire. How do powebank makers address this problem? BMX is launching its SolidSafe mobile power bank on Kickstarter with a solid core that significantly reduces the amount of flammable liquid inside the

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Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 15:37:00

Open source is usually seen as a win - for learning, visibility, and the community. But have you ever regretted it? Maybe it became a burden to maintain, attracted the wrong users, or got used in ways you didn’t expect. Would love to hear your experience - good or bad.

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Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 14:28:10

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download profile information belonging to users of a third-party customer relationship management system. “Our investigation has determined that the exported data primarily consisted of basic account profile information of individuals who registered for a user account on Cisco.com,” the company disclosed. Information included names, organization names, addresses, Cisco assigned user I

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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Audible's 'Harry Potter' Full-Cast Audio Production Debuts Nov. 4. You Can Preorder Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 08:00:12

The Boy Who Lived will live on for a new generation of audiobook listeners, as Audible and Pottermore Publishing gear up for the release of their full-cast English audio production of Harry Potter. The project is slated to kick off with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on Nov. 4, the companies said Tuesday, with the remaining six books debuting each month after that. Preorders are available now. The leading cast members for the project have also been announced. They include Hugh Laurie as

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Tesla co-founder JB Straubel is using old EV batteries to power AI data centers

cnbc.com Andrew Evers 2025-12-13 14:00:01

As demand for energy skyrockets amid the rise of AI, one of Tesla 's co-founders is betting on a new solution: giving old electric vehicle batteries a second-life. JB Straubel, who helped launch Tesla and served as its tech chief until 2019, founded Redwood Materials in 2017 to recycle batteries and build a closed-loop supply chain for EVs. But as Redwood started receiving more EV batteries, the startup noticed that most still had usable capacity. Rather than recycle those batteries, Redwood is

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I tested 3 text-to-speech AI models to see which is best - hear my results

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-13 18:06:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways There are now several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can now whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of their level of realism and their intended audiences. Synthetic voices generated by artificial intelligence are, for better or worse, becoming commonplace. Meanwhile, the number of companies developing this technology is growing rapidly. Recent innovations in AI, s

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SonicWall urges admins to disable SSLVPN amid rising attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:28:38

SonicWall has warned customers to disable SSLVPN services due to ransomware gangs potentially exploiting an unknown security vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach networks over the past few weeks. The warning comes after Arctic Wolf Labs reported on Friday that it had observed multiple Akira ransomware attacks, likely using a SonicWall zero-day vulnerability, since July 15th. "The initial access methods have not yet been confirmed in this campaign," the Arctic Wolf Labs research

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Latest Tech News

How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

Best Mattress 2025: We’ve Tested 100+ so You Can Sleep Soundly

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

Android 16 QPR1 makes it easier to find your recent apps with its taskbar overflow

Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

This Gaming Handheld’s External Battery Isn’t as Dumb as You Think

NASA Approves Ted Cruz’s Plan to Move a Space Shuttle to Houston, Setting Up a Fight With the Smithsonian

Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

Google's latest Pixel update fixes unresponsive button issue

Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

The Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station is my go-to portable power station for picnics and camping

Galaxy S26 Edge leak reveals just how thin Samsung’s next Edge could be

Software Rot

Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model

Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

Hands-on: BMX SolidSafe Solid-State Battery Pack [Video]

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

Audible's 'Harry Potter' Full-Cast Audio Production Debuts Nov. 4. You Can Preorder Now

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel is using old EV batteries to power AI data centers

I tested 3 text-to-speech AI models to see which is best - hear my results

SonicWall urges admins to disable SSLVPN amid rising attacks

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