Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?(krebsonsecurity.com)

72 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 28 comments

Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites(krebsonsecurity.com)

44 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 35 comments

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps(krebsonsecurity.com)

374 points by DemiGuru 3 months ago | 388 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article reporting that LG plans to suspend webOS smart TV apps that turn TVs into residential proxy nodes, after research found such SDKs in over 42% of apps.

Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)(krebsonsecurity.com)

369 points by air7 1 year ago | 196 comments

KrebsOnSecurity blog post explaining that many ransomware strains refuse to install on Windows systems with Russian or other CIS-language virtual keyboards installed.

Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts(krebsonsecurity.com)

22 points by panarky 4 months ago | 14 comments

DSLRoot, proxies, and the threat of 'legal botnets'(krebsonsecurity.com)

81 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 23 comments

Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel(wsj.com)

352 points by hhs 2 years ago | 567 comments

Wall Street Journal article about Americans spending billions on subscriptions such as streaming services that they forget to cancel.

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps(krebsonsecurity.com)

374 points by DemiGuru 3 months ago | 388 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article reporting that LG plans to suspend webOS smart TV apps that turn TVs into residential proxy nodes, after research found such SDKs in over 42% of apps.

Using an 8K TV as a Monitor(daniel.lawrence.lu)

498 points by ingve 2 years ago | 489 comments

A personal blog post on using an 8K TV as a computer monitor, covering its pros, cons, image quality and Linux driver issues, example devices, and an FAQ.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream(yashgarg.dev)

271 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 87 comments

A personal blog post by Yash Garg about intercepting the PlayStation 5's RTMP broadcast stream as a roundabout way to do screen sharing.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing(pluralistic.net)

1007 points by jay_kyburz 2 years ago | 473 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog post arguing that if buying digital media isn't owning it, then piracy isn't stealing.