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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem (www.youtube.com)
 

The LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition) functionality that can pry into your personal life with greater precision than you might realize, with LG Ad Solutions' executives and leadership saying, on camera, that LG "owns the glass." Not you -- even though you bought it -- but them. They also talk about knowing everybody in the household, knowing the secondary devices, moving from TVs to smartphones and other screens, and more in their B2B discussions. Beyond just the fact that we think the TV's native behavior parallels malware, the LG Smart TVs we tested also have a number of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to convert the TVs into covert listening devices. In this investigation, we dive into the mix of LG's first-party functionality that (in our opinions) is tantamount to spying and LG's vulnerabilities and exploits that they have failed to protect against.

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The AI revolution didn’t happen overnight—here’s why (www.youtube.com)
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Brief

In this talk, Professor Michael Wooldridge of Oxford University pulls back the curtain on the "overnight" AI revolution. Far from being a recent phenomenon, the journey of Artificial Intelligence began in the 1940s in Manchester, England.

From the code-breaking genius of Alan Turing to the modern-day phenomena of Nvidia and OpenAI, Wooldridge traces the high-stakes history of the technology that is currently reshaping our world.

The Professor's talk covers:

  • The Early Days: How the first digital computers and the Turing Test set the stage for machine intelligence.
  • The Neural Network Breakthrough: Why the 1980s got the science right, but lacked the data and power to make it work.
  • The GPU Revolution: The unlikely story of how computer game chips (designed for explosions in Call of Duty) became the secret sauce for modern AI.
  • The Rise of Transformers: How a 2017 Google research paper led to the birth of GPT-3 and the early success of ChatGPT.
  • Clever vs Gimmicky vs. Useful: Why AI can solve complex prime number equations in Latin, but still can’t figure out how to load your dishwasher. Michael Wooldridge is the Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University. He is best known for his pioneering work on multi-agent systems building multiple artificial intelligences that can cooperate, negotiate, and decipher convoluted problems similar to human collaboration.

In 2023, he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled ‘The Truth About AI’, and is a champion for making science accessible, having written the Ladybird Expert Guide to AI and the award-winning The Road to Conscious Machines.

For Michael’s thirty years of research, technical breakthroughs and dedication to teaching others, he was recently awarded the prestigious Michael Faraday Prize by the Royal Society in late 2025, becoming the first computer scientist in history to receive it.

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Van Hollen Leads 20 Colleagues in Urging Trump Administration to Use Leverage to Prevent Further Atrocities in Sudan (www.vanhollen.senate.gov)
 

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 20 of his Senate Democratic colleagues in pressing the State Department to use its leverage to prevent further atrocities in Sudan and help bring the war to an end. To do so, the Senators urge the State Department to cease certain U.S. arms sales to external actors like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which continues to arm the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) in Sudan. The Senators’ letter notes the immediate need for the State Department to take action in light of the impending siege of the city of El Obeid and following the mass atrocities and bloodshed that occurred in El Fasher last year.

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It's time we realize that a significant radical left is taking shape in America ! (www.cadtm.org)
 

Given the disastrous state of our world and the terrible existential threats now looming over it, it is more urgent than ever to seek out and discover the forces capable not only of (re)instilling the hope that is so sorely lacking among the peoples of the world, but also—and above all—of serving as an inspiration and a guiding light for their struggles. And take note: we must discover them not after the fact—in 10, 30, or 50 years—but now, in time, before the foretold catastrophe is upon us.

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Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing (text.npr.org)
 

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Anthony Fauci declined to answer any questions before a Senate committee focused on the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday morning.

Although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government, and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,

Fauci said in front of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Context

Fauci, who was subpoenaed to appear by Kentucky Senator and committee chair Rand Paul, has long sparred with the senator over the origins of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic. Days before Wednesdays' hearing, Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci's private writings, accusing him of covering up origins of COVID-19.

At the hearing, Fauci pointed out that he has responded to similar questions in previous testimony. And Fauci accused the senator of being obsessed with trying to get him behind bars.

The hearing comes days after Paul released diary entries he says were written by Dr. Anthony Fauci – the country's leading infectious disease specialist during the COVID-19 pandemic – that chronicle Fauci's daily life between December 2019 and December 2022.

The over 1,100 pages of entries span the final years of his tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He retired in December 2022.

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