LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

221 datakan 2026-09-12 17:01:18 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 213

LG denies claims its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, and scan local area networks for other devices. The company confirms it scans for nearby devices to enable features like device connectivity but says this is a standard function of all smart TVs.

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

129 juliantigler 2026-09-12 17:01:18 UTC high5apps.github.io Llama Share 45

This tutorial guides users to add a website tag to nearby shops or amenities on OpenStreetMap, helping people worldwide access more information. Users can use JOSM and the Website Wizard plugin to find and add official websites for places in their area of interest.

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

231 tolugenius 2026-09-12 16:01:18 UTC economist.com Full Share 173

Will There Be a 7G?

48 Betelbuddy 2026-09-12 18:01:18 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 75

The transition to 6G is becoming concrete, with the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework and 3GPP Release 21 defining its path. A new question arises: should there be a 7G, and what would justify it?

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

26 cjd8 2026-09-12 18:01:18 UTC lwn.net Llama Share 0

The Rust never type, denoted by an exclamation mark (!), has been stabilized after over two years of work. This change allows for more efficient generic code and correct type inference. The never type is useful in cases where a function cannot return any value or where a value can never occur.

We must pace the frontier

351 apsec112 2026-09-12 15:01:18 UTC darioamodei.com Llama Share 470

The author believes AI can greatly improve human life, but also poses significant risks that must be addressed. To mitigate these risks, the author proposes a three-step plan to pace AI development: embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global coordination.

IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

487 kegenaar 2026-09-12 07:01:18 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 126

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights

117 routelastresort 2026-09-12 19:16:18 UTC jacob.gold Llama Share 34

Anthropic published a law proposal requiring publicly available AI models to be open weights, slowing down frontier model development. This would reduce funding for future training runs and slow progress at every lab without regulatory capture.

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

55 pwg 2026-09-12 16:01:18 UTC righto.com Llama Share 17

The Intel 8087 floating-point unit was introduced in 1980 and became the standard for most computers today. It uses a complex microcode system to handle various arithmetic operations, including scaling numbers by powers of two. The FSCALE instruction is one such operation that scales a number by adding its exponent to a power of two, but it is surprisingly complicated due to special cases and ...

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

583 1e1a 2026-09-12 04:01:18 UTC autom.dev Llama Share 459

Google Search is rewriting organic result links to use a custom "goto" URL, redirecting users to the actual page instead of exposing the destination URL directly. This change aims to prevent automated SERP harvesting by AI crawlers and SEO scrapers.

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

35 lalitmaganti 2026-09-12 17:01:18 UTC lalitm.com Llama Share 9

The author built an open-source tracing tool called buildprof to visualize the time spent on different parts of a software build process. The tool records every process launched during a build, including subprocesses and their subprocesses, and lays them out on one timeline.

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

59 Bluestein 2026-09-12 14:01:18 UTC transformer-circuits.pub Llama Share 13

Researchers are working on mechanistic interpretability of transformer language models, which can help understand their behavior and identify potential issues. They have developed a method to reverse-engineer transformers by breaking them down into human-interpretable pieces, such as attention heads and MLP layers.

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

197 zdw 2026-09-12 08:01:18 UTC eiln.github.io Llama Share 26

The author is reverse-engineering the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) on the M1 chip to understand its architecture and limitations. The ANE's design was optimized for CNN workloads, but it has been found that transformer workloads can also be executed efficiently within the ANE's dataflow constraints.

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

19 dgroshev 2026-09-12 17:01:18 UTC blog.trailofbits.com Llama Share 5

Signal has launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate secure chats without requiring direct safety number comparison. This system ensures the integrity of public keys and prevents malicious servers from providing false keys.

A few good ideas in programming languages

58 airhangerf15 2026-09-12 14:01:18 UTC prydt.xyz Llama Share 40

Crystal and Rust use flow typing to allow dynamic behavior while maintaining compile-time checks, preventing data races. D programming language supports contract programming with invariants, pre- and post-conditions for functions, and class-level invariants to ensure program correctness.

Eating Fruit Skins

40 surprisetalk 2026-09-12 11:01:18 UTC pgadey.ca Llama Share 118

The author learned that eating apple cores, stems, and seeds is safe. They initially hesitated but eventually tried and found the stem edible too.

Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown

138 mhitza 2026-09-12 02:01:18 UTC supuk.ch Llama Share 37

A vulnerability was discovered in Android's NAT-T keepalive API, allowing normal applications to bypass VPN lockdown and leak traffic outside the VPN path. The vulnerability affects most Android 12+ devices, with evidence collected from three OEMs and two confirmed WLAN families, including Samsung SM-F966B and Nothing A059 on Qualcomm hardware.

I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold

61 sbulaev 2026-09-12 12:01:18 UTC wired.com Llama Share 78

A John Deere farmer fixes his tractor using the company's self-repair software, Operations Center Pro Service, after a brief tutorial. The service allows owners to diagnose and repair issues with their machines via Wi-Fi or cable.

Navier-Stokes Announcement

268 rvz 2026-09-12 05:01:18 UTC claymath.org Llama Share 212

The Clay Mathematics Institute congratulates several mathematicians on their awards, including Fields Medals and Frontiers of Science Prizes. These honors recognize outstanding contributions to mathematics from individuals such as Yu Deng, Hong Wang, and Anna Skorobogatova.

Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026

63 fagnerbrack 2026-09-12 13:01:18 UTC 00f.net Llama Share 16

The author benchmarks libsodium on WebAssembly runtimes from 2024, 2025, and 2026 to assess improvements. The results show that Wasmtime steadily improved, while Wasmer gained a feature worth caring about for crypto workloads.

λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study

166 dr_kiszonka 2026-09-12 06:01:18 UTC snap.berkeley.edu Full Share 103

The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.

The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

89 ColinWright 2026-09-12 12:01:18 UTC tedium.co Llama Share 42

A freelancer received numerous emails from a company called iLands.app, offering to do research for a fee, but the messages were aggressive and insulting. The company's true intention was revealed to be using autonomous bots to take work from freelancers like the author.

LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest

78 gauravapiscean 2026-09-12 12:01:18 UTC github.com/gauravapiscean Llama Share 37

The author tested various cache eviction policies on real-world traces from agentic LLM serving and found that none of the three independent mechanisms beat the baseline LRU-leaf policy. The experiments were conducted in a capacity-bound regime, where the dominant source of cache misses is tight tool loops with 88k-token working sets exceeding cache capacity.

How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality

22 thunderbong 2026-09-12 13:01:18 UTC utu.fi Llama Share 6

A new study reveals that horse personality is influenced by their environment, including housing, riding frequency and quality of human interaction. The findings suggest that everyday management decisions can shape a horse's personality and welfare.

A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

401 wcrichton 2026-09-11 20:01:18 UTC cel.cs.brown.edu Llama Share 115

The async/await keywords in programming languages aim to simplify concurrency, but their designs vary significantly. A new paper explores the differences between modern languages' async implementations.

Reconstructing Concurrency Invariants Through Medieval East Asian Logic

15 gg582 2026-09-12 15:01:18 UTC oborona.zip Full Share 4

Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them

136 bookofjoe 2026-09-12 02:01:18 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 40

Scientists found lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes may live up to 400 years, contradicting previous estimates of 150 years. Conservation efforts will need to be revised due to their extraordinary longevity and impact on the ecosystem.

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

98 mmayberry 2026-09-12 15:01:18 UTC latimes.com Llama Share 147

Two juvenile passengers were arrested in San Francisco after being found with an illegal "ghost gun" in a Waymo autonomous vehicle. The incident occurred on September 3 and is still under investigation.

I refuse to let SPICE die

61 Nefarius 2026-09-12 15:01:18 UTC github.com/nefarius Llama Share 56

This repository is a public mirror of the abandoned freedesktop.org spice/win32/vd_agent project, maintaining a Windows guest agent for SPICE. It keeps building and shipping for current guests, especially Windows 11 VMs on Linux.

Fuck it, make it anyway

505 JayOtter 2026-09-12 12:01:18 UTC joelotter.com Llama Share 495

The author experienced a creative slump due to the rise of generative AI, which threatens their livelihood and sense of fulfillment in programming and game development. They're considering adapting to AI or giving up, but instead are choosing to continue making things the hard way for personal enjoyment and growth.