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Nobody Wanted This: Samsung Fridges Are Getting Ads

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-18 17:40:26

If your home is your temple—the last place where you can escape the blasted outside landscape of billboards, screen ads, bus ads, train ads, and TV ads—know that the Mongol horde of advertising is looking to break down your fortress walls. Samsung’s new agenda for its smart home includes sticking ads into its ultra-expensive refrigerators with screens. Don’t worry, you can dismiss some of those ads, but the only way to get rid of them completely is to disconnect your fridge from the internet. A

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Your Samsung fridge may start showing ads you can't turn off - but there's a workaround

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-19 01:16:00

Daniella Ramirez/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung refrigerators will soon display ads, the company says. There's no option to turn ads off. You can avoid ads by changing your cover to art or picture mode. If you have a Samsung smart fridge, you might see commercials in your kitchen soon. Earlier this year, at a presentation in New York City, Samsung teased "a world where Samsung Ads brings your brand message to every screen in the c

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Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 05:35:30

If you’ve just shelled out thousands of dollars on one of Samsung’s smart fridges , you’d be forgiven for expecting it to leave you alone, rather than encouraging you to spend even more money. But that is no longer the case — following a recent update, you’ll start seeing ads on the fridge’s display. According to Android Authority , the new software update is being rolled out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US, and will now display ads and promotions while the display is idle. In a

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Samsung’s Project Moohan headset has a new launch date, but what about tri-fold?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-19 09:39:01

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung will reportedly launch its Project Moohan headset on October 21. This will apparently be an online launch, but there’s no word on geographical availability. Samsung’s “tri-fold” device will reportedly launch at a separate event. Samsung has been working on an Android XR headset, codenamed Project Moohan, in partnership with Google for a while now. We’ve previously heard launch date rumors, but a reliable outlet has now revealed a different date.

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Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-19 19:38:11

TL;DR Samsung is allegedly rolling out a new software update for some of its smart refrigerators. The update adds advertisements to the display on the refrigerator door on certain themes. The changelog frames the ads as a feature, but users can avoid them by selecting specific ad-free themes — for now. Update, September 18, 2025 (04:38 AM ET): Samsung has shared a statement with us on this software update bringing ads to its smart refrigerators. Original article, September 17, 2025 (11:02 AM

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Meta Horizon TV is an entertainment hub for VR headsets

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 22:12:16

After revealing his company's latest augmented reality and smart glasses at Meta Connect this year, Mark Zuckerberg has introduced a new entertainment hub for its Quest headsets called Horizon TV. Zuckerberg said Meta believes watching video content is going to be a huge category for both virtual reality headsets and glasses in the future. Meta has already teamed up with several major streaming services to provide shows and movies you can enjoy in VR. One of those partners is Disney+, which will

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Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 09:02:11

TL;DR Samsung is allegedly rolling out a new software update for some of its smart refrigerators. The update adds advertisements to the display on the refrigerator door on certain themes. The changelog frames the ads as a feature, but users can avoid them by selecting specific ad-free themes — for now. Imagine paying top dollar for a brand-new high-end refrigerator only to be greeted with ads on the door display. Sounds like a nightmare? Unfortunately, this nightmare is coming true for Samsun

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Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-23 09:20:00

A massive Android ad fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" was disrupted after 224 malicious applications on Google Play were used to generate 2.3 billion ad requests per day. The ad fraud campaign was discovered by HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team, which reported that the apps were downloaded over 38 million times and employed obfuscation and steganography to conceal the malicious behavior from Google and security tools. The campaign was worldwide, with users installing the apps from 228 co

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James Gunn's 'Superman' Heads to Streaming. Here's When to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 09:13:42

If you want HBO Max, you can choose from three plans, the cheapest of which is Basic with Ads for $10 a month or $100 annually. Standard (without ads) is $17 a month or $170 a year, and Premium, which offers ad-free programming along with 4K UHD resolution and 100 offline downloads, costs $21 a month or $210 a year. The Max, Hulu and Disney Plus megabundle may also be of interest.

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Experimental browser MMO with bots, boss fights and power-ups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 22:55:38

Instant Access No downloads, no waiting. Click and play immediately in your browser on any device.

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Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-26 12:00:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweig

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FTC investigating ad sale practices at Google and Amazon

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 21:02:39

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon and Google misled advertisers regarding the pricing and terms for their ads. As first reported by Bloomberg , the investigation is being conducted by the agency's consumer protection unit, and centers around the auction-style sale of advertising space by the companies. Google sells ads using automated auctions that run after a user enters a search query. These auctions take place in less than a second. Amazon uses real-time auctions t

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Roku Wants to Improve Your TV Viewing Experience With a Monsoon of AI-Generated Ads

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-28 09:55:39

Advertising is already one of the most annoying parts of watching television and, if a high-level executive at Roku is to be believed, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. The Verge reports that the streamer envisions a near future where your TV is flooded with AI-generated advertisements. “No longer is it going to be about the top 200 advertisers,” Roku CFO and COO Dan Jedda told investors during a recent investor conference hosted by Citi. “It’s going to be about 100,000 advertisers.” Oh, dea

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Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-28 09:49:24

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nintendo’s oft-maligned VR headset the Virtual Boy is getting a new life on modern hardware. Nintendo announced that the platform will be coming to its collection of retro games available to Switch Online subscribers, and will be available on both t

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Astrophysics Source Code Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 21:59:38

[submitted] adstex automatically identifies all citation keys in a TeX source file and builds the corresponding bibliography file (.bib file) by fetching the reference information from NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS). adstex recognizes all variants of the cite commands in TeX, and works with various styles of citation keys, including arXiv IDs, DOIs, and ADS bibcodes. When a citation key is in the format of first-author name and year, adstex will query NASA's ADS and return a list of poss

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Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-09-30 09:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Are you tired of having to watch the same three or four ads over and over again? That could change soon, if Roku has its way. The smart TV and streaming device maker is working on dramatically expanding the number of advertisers vying for your attention, to the point where ads on streaming could soon look a lot more like those on your Instagram feed, complete with brands you’ve never heard of and videos that

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The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2025)

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-02 21:30:00

Tips Before Playing Before you can actually play, there are a few things you need to do. Here are some tips for getting everything set up, because the Quest interface is not always the easiest to navigate. Set your boundary. The last thing you want while playing is to run into an object in your room while essentially blindfolded. Your Quest will guide you through the process of setting up your boundary. Roomscale lets you draw a play space to move freely, Stationary when you're standing still.

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Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars

news.ycombinator.com Eslam Elsewedy 2025-10-05 13:34:41

Weaponizing Ads: How Governments Use Google Ads and Facebook Ads to Wage Propaganda Wars Eslam Elsewedy 20 min read · 19 hours ago 19 hours ago -- Listen Share In late 2024, the head of the UN’s Gaza aid agency made a disturbing discovery: when people searched for his organization on Google, the top result wasn’t the agency’s own site — it was a paid ad placed by the Israeli government. The ad mimicked a UN website but actually linked to an Israeli government page accusing the UN Relief and Wor

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Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:47:51

In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising maintainers' accounts in a phishing attack. One of the package maintainers whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that hosts a website imp

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Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-07 13:46:50

The consensus is clear. Regular folk and gamers alike couldn’t give a hoot for yet another Meta Quest-like VR headset. Hell, even the “metaverse is the future” company Meta seems more interested in smart glasses than headsets nowadays. That may change if Valve has anything to say about it. Even if you’re not a VR gaming enthusiast, there’s more than one reason you should pay attention to Valve’s long-rumored wireless XR headset. The company behind Steam could be crafting a device whose closest d

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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Ritchie 2025-10-08 06:26:43

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950. A century ago, these were the cars on Britain’s roads. Forget driving lessons or tests; to get behind the wheel legally, all you needed was a paper license, which cost the equivalent of around 25 pence today. Cars had no seatbelts and, of course, no airbags. There were no mirrors to let you see traffic behind. There were no flashing indicators, so your signal to turn left or right

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Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-08 01:48:42

How can startups and developers actually monetize their AI products? A startup called Koah, which recently raised $5 million in seed funding, is betting that ads will be a big part of the answer. If you spend any time online, there’s a good chance you’ve seen plenty of ugly, AI-generated ads — but few to none when interacting with AI chatbots themselves. Koah co-founder and CEO Nic Baird argued that will inevitably change. “Once these things get outside San Francisco, there’s only one way to m

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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 23:55:52

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c, though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the runtime and in the compiler. Let's break down FUGC's features: Parallel: marking and sweeping happen in multiple threads, in parallel. The more

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Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text [U: Launched]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-10 17:44:32

Update, Sep 4: The feature is now live. Find the new details below. While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could repla

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 09:00:00

That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Selecting "text attachment" from the post composer opens up a simple text editor that has some formatting o

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You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-11 09:00:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required. Starting today, Meta is rolling out a tool that lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving you a way to build upon the 500-characte

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-11 09:00:00

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to their post. The addition has been designed with the needs of creators in mind, as it supports linking out to content outside of Threads, like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more. Before this update, Threads supported 500 characters — which is already far more than the 280 characters offered to X

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No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 00:00:00

The bartender's first hoot is so clean and high-pitched it sounds piped in from the ceiling speakers — a single whooo that slices through the post-punk and clinking glassware. My friend Michael jolts on his barstool, beer sloshing dangerously close to the rim. "Did you hear that owl?" he whispers. "Not an owl," I say, matter-of-factly, wiping condensation from my glass before it drips onto the bar. The bartender, in his mid-30s with slicked-back hair and an immaculate black apron, lets out ano

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Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 17:25:00

Yesterday afternoon, while much of the country enjoyed Labor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a new master plan for the company to his social media platform. It's the fourth such document for Tesla, replacing the goals Musk laid out in 2023 when he said the company would sell 20 million EVs a year in 2030. This time, it is not entirely sure what Tesla's plan actually entails. The text, which was reads as though it was written by AI, is at times anodyne, at times confusing, but always free of s

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Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gets a rumored launch date, and it’s sooner than you think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:42:00

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests Samsung’s dual-hinged Galaxy Z TriFold will launch on September 29 in South Korea. The same event will reportedly feature launches of the Project Moohan (possibly rebranded to “Galaxy XR”) headset and potentially tease new AI-powered smart glasses. Previous leaks have suggested that the Galaxy tri-fold could be priced upwards of 4 million KRW (~$2,930) and be limited to China and South Korea. Samsung has long been working on a gener

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Latest Tech News

Nobody Wanted This: Samsung Fridges Are Getting Ads

Your Samsung fridge may start showing ads you can't turn off - but there's a workaround

Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

Samsung’s Project Moohan headset has a new launch date, but what about tri-fold?

Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators (Updated)

Meta Horizon TV is an entertainment hub for VR headsets

Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators

Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign

James Gunn's 'Superman' Heads to Streaming. Here's When to Watch

Experimental browser MMO with bots, boss fights and power-ups

Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture

FTC investigating ad sale practices at Google and Amazon

Roku Wants to Improve Your TV Viewing Experience With a Monsoon of AI-Generated Ads

Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online

Astrophysics Source Code Library

Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2025)

Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars

Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text [U: Launched]

Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening

Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gets a rumored launch date, and it’s sooner than you think

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