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  Your LG TV Might Be Spying on Your Entire Network While You Think It's Turned Off cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51634640 A new Gamers Nexus investigation found a retail LG TV actively scanning the local network for phones, laptops, smartwatches and other connected devices, while also capturing microphone audio when the screen appeared to be in standby. The investigation found voice data being stored locally even after the TV was disconnected from the network, with the queued data...

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  Claude Code reportedly destroyed 5 yearsof irreplaceable Mythic Society archives A routine maintenance task reportedly ended with an AI coding agent deleting years of digital heritage data belonging to The Mythic Society in Bengaluru. The reported failure started with a shell quoting/expansion mistake. $1 was evaluated in the wrong shell context, turning an apparently scoped cleanup command into rm -rf /*. Because the agent was running inside WSL2 with host filesystem mounts, the damage reporte...

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  Claude Malware Attack: Malicious Download Link Leads to Poisoned SKILL.md A user reportedly got infected after following a download link provided by Claude. After wiping the laptop, they found a malicious SKILL.md that could potentially reinfect the system through Claude Code and steal credentials. A worrying look at how AI agents can become a new malware and supply-chain attack surface.

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  cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51358150 This is a pretty significant milestone for anyone interested in running Linux on Apple Silicon. The Asahi Linux work around Apple’s proprietary ACIO subsystem is what makes it possible. The interesting part is just how much reverse engineering was required: • Cortex-M3 co-processor + firmware loading • 16 MiB temporary MMIO window • DART IOMMU and DMA restrictions • CD321x / Type-C PHY sequencing • Changes to the Linux Thunderbolt core The ini...