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Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·17hResearchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad armUnplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.The evidence begs to differ.216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.Where are the regulators?Writer: Danielhttps://x.com/Braiinsforge/s~~~~Grok's explanatory summary:Mario Nawfal's post summarizes a Gamers Nexus investigation showing LG smart TVs scan home networks for devices like phones and smartwatches, log voice inputs as plain-text transcripts, and send data to LG Ad Solutions....

Is the Cybercab cheaper than Waymo? Will Uber drivers lose jobs? What makes the Cybercab efficient? Summarise the video This video from Best in Tesla argues that Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab will significantly outperform competitors like Waymo and disrupt Uber’s current business model by offering a more cost-effective and efficient autonomous ride-hailing service. Key Takeaways: Cost Efficiency: The video estimates the Cybercab will cost approximately $17,500 to produce, compared to an estimated $100,000 for a Waymo robotaxi (1:23 - 2:49). This results in a massive gap in depreciation costs per mile (3:00 - 3:19). Operational Simplicity: Unlike Waymo, the Tesla Cybercab...

Kiano Vafaeian should be alive. Claire Elyse Brosseau is alive. In Canada, that difference may have less to do with a clear medical standard than with geography. The Canadian pro-euthanasia movement has spent years assuring the public that their Medical Assistance in Dying [MAiD]came with safeguards. Including: two independent assessors and that the person asking for death be facing grievous and irremediable suffering. They promised that mental illness alone was to remain excluded. The promise was simple: vulnerable people would be protected, and despair would not become a channel to death. Then came Kiano. Kiano was born March 14, 1999....

British police said Wednesday that they have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that anti-immigration party Reform UK broke rules barring foreign donations. Last week, Channel 4 broadcast an undercover investigation in which two senior Reform UK officials appeared to discuss ways money from an American financier could be channeled through his U.K.-based son to get around the rules. U.K. electoral law says parties can only accept donations from British voters or U.K.-registered businesses .... The party suspended Dan Jukes, a longtime adviser to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, and party policy chief James Orr, after the documentary was aired....

DALLAS, TX — With the pivotal midterm elections less than two months away, the nation's most prominent members of the Republican Party prepared to gather in Dallas to get advice from the Cowboys on how to blow everything in November. With President Donald Trump set to headline the party's first midterm convention, officials said they couldn't think of a better plan to formulate a losing strategy than to congregate in the city with a football team that is unparalleled in choking when it matters most. "They're the experts," said one GOP insider. "We're getting down to crunch time now, so...

Igor Chaika - newly appointed head of Russia's federal agency for foreign aid - has become an internet sensation after a press conference photo sparked a flurry of memes It was then quote-posted in a viral piece of satire on Tuesday (September 8), as users zeroed in on Chaika’s striking physique.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that the war with the United States could come to an end if Washington stops threatening Iran and meets a series of conditions set by Tehran, including demands concerning its nuclear program. IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohibi, quoted by Iran's Fars News Agency, said that if the United States seeks to end the current situation, it must completely halt the war and refrain from making further threats against Iran. He added that Iran's conditions include the withdrawal of the Israeli military from Lebanon, an end to the blockade imposed on Yemen, the...

ransomnote: The prior posts in the series are here: John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Introduction and Day 1 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 2 and Day 3 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 4 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Day 5 of the 12 day series]John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen: 12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI [Days 6, 7 and 8 of the 12 day series] John “TIG” Tiegen@TigTiegen12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI: DAY 9 - 1 of 4TYRONE...

Anytime we interact with anyone, we do what we call a warrants check and we run them through our computer system So whether you're a United States citizen or whether you're here illegally, we run your information through our system. And when we get a hit that says you're wanted on a warrant, then we arrest you. If we get a hit that says ICE has an interest in you, then we contact ICE andsee if they want to execute their federal action and then we hold you and turn you over to ICE. Listen, let's make this really clear....

The Liberals continue to rise in public opinion, according to new figures from Novus published by GP and TV4.

Erobella recently published the Out on Campus: The LGBTQ+ College Index 2026, which measures how “supportive and inclusive” the universities across the country are. The study examined whether universities have professionally staffed LGBTQ+ centers, provide gender-inclusive housing, have written policies that protect trans students from discrimination, have a student health insurance plan that covers gender-affirming care, and allow chosen names and pronouns to be used on official records. Out on Campus also analyzed the city where the school is located by measuring its score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index, the number of LGBTQ+ venues nearby, and whether...

The FBI is investigating after digital scans of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses were reportedly offered for sale on the dark web. The records may have originated with an identity-verification provider that processes IDs for businesses, although investigators have not confirmed the source of the data. Consumers potentially affected should consider freezing their credit and closely watching financial accounts because a stolen license can provide criminals with valuable information for identity theft.

In 2023 Lindsay Clancy sent her husband on an errand. While he was away she strangled their three children--5 year-old Cora, 3 year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan to death. Her efforts to kill herself were not as successful. She cut her wrists and neck and jumped from the home's second-story window. She survived, but was paralyzed from the waist down due to the fall. Her defense counsel argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder and could not be held responsibility for her actions. The prosecution argued that the careful planning that preceded the killings demonstrated premeditation....

Sidney Sweeney: All Clothes Are Off, All Bets Are On!!!Sydney Sweeney is getting into the sports prediction market ... and she's doing it with a little skin in the game ... in more ways than one. The "Euphoria" star is joining Novig, a new sports trading app and prediction market, as a strategic partner and equity holder ... and she's the face of their first national ad campaign ... which, unsurprisingly, is leaning into her sex appeal. [...] What began as a conversation about investing evolved organically as she got to know the team, eventually leading her to become an...

The mother of a convicted ISIS terrorist who plotted to 'create the next 9/11' is running for public office in Canada. Dr Khdiga R Metwally is on the ballot for Halton District School Board Ward 1 and 2 trustee, about 30 miles outside Toronto. Her son, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, is serving a 40-year prison sentence in the United States for plotting an ISIS terrorist attack in New York City during the summer of 2016. Metwally told the Daily Mail that her son is mentally ill and she 'rejects violence and extremism in all forms.' 'I have never supported any violent...

ASPEN, Colo. — Mountain Rescue Aspen responded to two climbing fatalities in less than a week. On Sunday, a climber died after falling on Castle Peak, south of Aspen. On Sept. 2, another climber was killed after falling off Maroon Peak. The Elk Mountains are very rocky, loose shale that’s crumbly and moves a lot,” said Jeff Edelson with Rocky Mountain Rescue. “It’s unfortunate to see two climber deaths in one week in one range. If we look back at our historical data, unfortunately, we do have a couple of deaths a year on average in our range. Sometimes they’re...

They named the collapse – then they bought the churches.Siraj Wahhaj, Mamdani’s favorite imam, says 100,000 churches will close this decade. Forty million Americans already left the pews. Those sanctuaries are not sitting vacant. They are being seized, flipped into mosques, and celebrated as conquest.Then the sermons start. Christians branded as idolaters. Enemies. Christ denied. Annihilation preached from buildings that once held the Cross…

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican denies Bishop Schneider Latin Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica 'It seems very strange that today the so-called LGBT Catholics can obtain a special Mass in St. Peter's more easily than Catholics attached to the Church’s Tradition,' a source told LifeSite.The Traditional Latin Mass will not be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica during this year’s Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage.On September 9, the organizers of the 15th edition of the traditional Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage at the Tomb of St. Peter released the official program of the event. Unlike last year — and as already happened during Francis’s pontificate — the...

“As free citizens we believe in direct democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, social market economics, subsidiarity, federalism, family values, and German cultural heritage.” So reads the manifesto of the AFD, Alternative für Deutschland, which in global media speak translates to “far-right.” Or worse. On Sunday, the AFD victory in the federal state election of Saxony-Anhalt spooked the BBC into warning its audience, “The AfD in the state is assessed by domestic intelligence as ‘right-wing extremist’.” Extreme compared to what? This “extremist” party got more than twice as many votes as its nearest rival and might have...

Letter from a Catholic Mother About the TLM Which clergy will defend real Catholicism as the stakes increase? Below is a letter I received from a mother of a large family. She and her husband gave me permission to publish it. I am keeping them anonymous, as well as their bishop and diocese.The TLM community in my diocese is suffering greatly. We are still mourning the loss of our Latin Mass; that school of holiness, valor, beauty, and love. It was our identity; the light of our families and the means of constant conversion in which we were all deeply...