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The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance devices. LG TV owners, and tech enthusiasts in general, are furious, and a hurried response from LG has done little to calm the situation.Some of the claims in the video may be based on speculation and assumptions, but many of the core concerns are real…

In brief SpaceX’s AI unit held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational data from failed startups to train Grok. The approach echoes Google’s $10 million bankruptcy-auction win for Spirit Airlines’ business records. SpaceXAI told staff in August it would train Grok on the entirety of SpaceX’s own internal records, with Musk telling employees the model would effectively absorb who they are. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went under. Not licensing data from companies that are still operating and can say no. Buying the digital estate of…

Mars’ innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades. One of the biggest unanswered questions is where it came from. Some researchers think Phobos is an asteroid that was captured by Mars, while others argue that it formed from debris thrown into orbit after a massive object slammed into the planet. Solving that mystery may depend on something scientists still know surprisingly little about: what Phobos looks like on the inside. Researchers are now trying to narrow down the possibilities by studying subtle characteristics of the moon, including its gravity and motion. At the recent European Geosciences Union general…

20/09/2026 – 11:53Mass drone barrage on Moscow kills two Hundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, the authorities said. The capital’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted and shot down, 450 of which were aimed at Moscow. 20/09/2026 – 11:45 Putin says Europe is ‘preparing for war’ 20/09/2026 – 11:33Mass drone barrage on Moscow kills two, hit oil refinery Flame and smoke is seen rising from Moscow’s oil refinery in the south east of the…

Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing in their favor, stand out from competitors and advertise their superiority. In other words, good benchmarks pretty much always mean good PR. Unfortunately, companies have also figured out how to outwit legacy benchmarking systems — many of which are older, and not built to measure the capabilities of modern models. Vals, a startup formed in 2024, says that it is on a mission to fix this very imperfect system. In the span of less than two years, the company has established…

Grayscale’s Zcash ETF (ZCSH) plans a 3-for-1 forward share split, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.At the close of trading on Sept. 28, shareholders will receive two extra shares for each one they hold, according to the filing.The forward split is expected to decrease the price per share of the fund, according to a Grayscale press release, with a proportionate increase in the number of shares outstanding.Hypothetically, this means that if you owned 10 shares valued at $300 each for a total $3,000 before the split, afterward you will own 30 shares valued at $100…

Drywood termites are remarkably good at disappearing into the very material they destroy. Instead of building obvious nests, they can spend nearly their entire lives hidden inside beams, framing, furniture, and other dry wood, slowly carving out galleries as a colony grows. That hidden existence makes them difficult to find and difficult to eliminate. But researchers at the University of California, Riverside identified a biological weakness that termites cannot hide from: they have to molt. A study published in 2025 in the Journal of Economic Entomology showed that bistrifluron, an insect growth regulator that interferes with the formation of a…

On 20 June 1893, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a packed courtroom waited with bated breath for the jury to return its verdict following a gruelling double-murder trial. Against a backdrop of intense media interest, they had heard the prosecution argue that the accused had hacked to death their own parents with a hatchet, had burned their clothing to hide evidence of blood, and had done so out of hatred. The question the jury was asked to answer was simple – was Lizzie Andrew Borden guilty of murdering her father and stepmother? Jurors took just one hour to reach a decision:…

As bombs fell on Gaza in October 2023, Palestinian journalists turned to social media to show the world what was happening to their people. Israel’s siege on Gaza had been intensified, with food and water banned at one point, and the ban on the entry of foreign journalists was likely intended to create a media blackout during the genocidal war on the enclave.While Palestinian media workers and citizen journalists in Gaza documented the genocide, there were other challenges in sharing evidence of war crimes with the outside world.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHuman Rights Watch (HRW) documented cases…

The White House last October also barred reporters from accessing a West Wing office used by communications staff, and early in Trump’s second term took control over the management of the White House pool rotation, which had long been handled by the White House Correspondents’ Association. Jacqui Heinrich, the WHCA president and a Fox News correspondent, criticized Trump’s move in a statement. “The president said it plainly in the Oval Office, describing his own planned action as a ‘ban on the free press.’ The Constitution protects the freedom of the press from government interference,” she said. “That protection does not…