This is genuinely a great idea...

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II. meidasnews.com/news/massie-k…

Yeah, this is definitely an organic, totally unexpected, not at all manipulated development.

Why the public needs to step up. I talk with @CBCNews about why a (temporary) boycott of generative AI, as unlikely as it is, ought to be on the table. youtu.be/3BBp-tCvsOM?si=88Kx…

Anthropic Is building A Pre-Crime system to monitor activists and protesters. Full Story in replies.

LG smart TVs are raising privacy concerns after an investigation by Gamers Nexus, led by Steve Burke, found some worrying behavior in LG’s OLED TVs. Researchers found that the TVs could scan local networks for nearby devices and Wi-Fi networks, while LG’s content-recognition system could identify what was being watched. Testing found that the TV’s microphone could capture audio while the screen was off and the TV was in standby. The recordings could then be stored locally and uploaded after reconnecting to the internet. The investigation also uncovered potential security flaws in webOS that could allow remote code execution.

What the TV does by design: — scans your entire home network continuously. in their test: one TV identified 38 unrelated devices including phones, smartwatches, printers, and thermostats belonging to people not involved in the test. — collects the names and signal strengths of every nearby WiFi network, plus location data. all sent to LG Ad Solutions. — runs ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) on everything displayed on screen. including HDMI inputs. your laptop, gaming console, or work monitor connected to the TV is being fingerprinted. — one TV exchanged roughly 4GB of ACR-related data per month. What the TV does that LG says it doesn't: LG publicly stated their TVs "do not collect, record, or store ambient conversations." Gamers Nexus found: — the TV converts speech to plain text and stores it in on-device logs — the microphone window stays open 10 to 15 seconds after talking stops, capturing bystanders who never addressed the TV — the TV recorded room audio while the screen appeared off and the Ethernet cable was unplugged, then exfiltrated the file the moment it reconnected The security vulnerabilities on top: Beyond the designed behavior, researchers found remote code execution vulnerabilities in webOS that could allow a compromised TV to be weaponized as a covert listening device. these sets are in hospitals. waiting rooms. boardrooms. hotels. a surgeon asked Gamers Nexus where that leaves patient confidentiality. Gamers Nexus has no answer. neither does LG. What to do right now: — disconnect your LG TV from your network entirely. route streaming through an Apple TV, Roku, or Fire Stick instead. — if you must keep it connected: put it on a separate IoT VLAN or guest network so it cannot reach your other devices. — disable the built-in microphone in settings. — check your privacy dashboard and opt out of ACR and ad personalization. — after every firmware update: recheck all of the above. Credit to Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and other independent researchers.

Your LG TV does not turn off. Gamers Nexus caught retail OLEDs scanning the home network for phones and watches. Mapping nearby Wi-Fi. Fingerprinting what you watch. The screen looked off. The mic still worked. They pulled the network cable. It kept the audio. When the internet came back, it uploaded what it saved. 216 million smart TVs sold. The ad arm boasts hundreds of millions of extra devices in the house. A TV in the living room is a sensor with a pretty panel. Unplug it from the network or treat it as hostile.

LG TVs are quietly mapping your home network for unrelated hardware, including phones, smartwatches,.., while logging audio even with the screen off. The data is saved locally if offline, then uploaded to LG Ad Solutions for targeting. An investigation by Gamer Nexus claims that the number of devices doing this is 200M+ notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-T…

Four reasons we need to Pause OpenAI, now. garymarcus.substack.com/p/pa… Please consider sharing this post. There is a lot at stake, for all of humanity.

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Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

This is the most badass shit ever

Alibaba's AliExpress was caught using users' audio systems to track them. AliExpress wasn't recording users but instead playing a silent sound and measuring how users' specific devices processed it in order to fingerprint them. But don't worry because Brave stops this.

A developer using Bluetooth headphones accidentally caught Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba secretly hijacking his computer's audio system without making a single sound. When his wireless headphones refused to switch audio to his phone while browsing AliExpress, he inspected the site's hidden code. He discovered background scripts holding his computer's audio pipeline wide open. Alibaba was using the browser's WebAudio API to run invisible sound waves at zero volume. By measuring tiny hardware differences in how each computer processes those signals, the site created a unique digital fingerprint to track devices. Because the secret audio path stayed active, it froze his Bluetooth connection while quietly scraping hardware memory, screen dimensions, and network data in the background.

⚠️ Microsoft and OpenAI have only one play to make GenAI profitable, and this is it: all out 24x7 surveillance. They are already starting to try to soften you up for it. Virtually every warning that I have given for the last several years has come true. Please don’t ignore this one. 🙏

The DOJ is now 242 days overdue to release the Epstein files.

During the Epstein files hearing, Judge Sullivan pointedly invokes his history of (famously) holding prosecutors in contempt in the case of Sen. Ted Stevens: “I’m probably the only judge in this Circuit who has held the Justice Department attorneys in civil contempt.”

The DOJ is now 238 days overdue to release the Epstein files.