Rob Tiffany retweeted
Texas says your TV takes a picture of your screen twice a second. That's probably why your phone keeps showing you ads for stuff you only ever watched on the TV.
The state sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over it last December. The tech is called automatic content recognition, or ACR. Every half second, the TV grabs whatever is on the screen, turns it into a fingerprint, and matches it against a giant library of shows and commercials. It doesn't care where the picture comes from. Cable, your PS5, the laptop you plugged in over HDMI to show your parents vacation photos all get read the same way.
Getting that onto your phone is the clever part, and it runs through your Wi-Fi.
Your TV and your phone share the same internet connection, so to an ad company they look like they live in the same house, because they do. The New York Times dug into one of these companies, Samba TV, back in 2018. Its software was on 13.5 million smart TVs, and the company said 90% of owners opted in during setup. Advertisers could pay to follow a commercial you saw on TV with an ad on every other device in your home.
So you watch a travel show about Lisbon on Sunday night, and by Monday morning Instagram is showing you flights to Portugal. Your TV saw the show, and your router told the ad company whose phone to send it to.
The guy who posted this dump had to break into his own TV just to see any of it. The firmware on his 2025 Samsung was encrypted, so he copied the files straight off the running TV onto his Mac. Inside, it looks like a laptop. There's a web browser engine, an app loader built on Microsoft's .NET, a section for DRM, and a long list of background services that check in every time the TV boots. You bought a computer you'd need hacking skills to look inside.
Samsung settled with Texas in February. It didn't admit to anything and still says its TVs don't spy on people. The deal means Texans get a clear consent screen before ACR turns on, and it only covers Texas.
Before the settlement, a Texas court said there was good reason to believe that reading Samsung's privacy disclosures took more than 200 clicks across four or more menus. Samsung got out of the case without paying a single dollar.
The state sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over it last December. The tech is called automatic content recognition, or ACR. Every half second, the TV grabs whatever is on the screen, turns it into a fingerprint, and matches it against a giant library of shows and commercials. It doesn't care where the picture comes from. Cable, your PS5, the laptop you plugged in over HDMI to show your parents vacation photos all get read the same way.
Getting that onto your phone is the clever part, and it runs through your Wi-Fi.
Your TV and your phone share the same internet connection, so to an ad company they look like they live in the same house, because they do. The New York Times dug into one of these companies, Samba TV, back in 2018. Its software was on 13.5 million smart TVs, and the company said 90% of owners opted in during setup. Advertisers could pay to follow a commercial you saw on TV with an ad on every other device in your home.
So you watch a travel show about Lisbon on Sunday night, and by Monday morning Instagram is showing you flights to Portugal. Your TV saw the show, and your router told the ad company whose phone to send it to.
The guy who posted this dump had to break into his own TV just to see any of it. The firmware on his 2025 Samsung was encrypted, so he copied the files straight off the running TV onto his Mac. Inside, it looks like a laptop. There's a web browser engine, an app loader built on Microsoft's .NET, a section for DRM, and a long list of background services that check in every time the TV boots. You bought a computer you'd need hacking skills to look inside.
Samsung settled with Texas in February. It didn't admit to anything and still says its TVs don't spy on people. The deal means Texans get a clear consent screen before ACR turns on, and it only covers Texas.
Before the settlement, a Texas court said there was good reason to believe that reading Samsung's privacy disclosures took more than 200 clicks across four or more menus. Samsung got out of the case without paying a single dollar.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was. n found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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Rob Tiffany retweeted
Nathan Fielder says he and Lance Oppenheim kept disagreeing on what was happening with Elizabeth Holmes so they decided the confusion itself was the story
"when I met her, um I remember having this weird experience that I sort of like talk about in there where I’m like she seems s, but then I’m like, ‘No, I’m clocking like tracking my thoughts and being like, “Okay, I know she’s a liar.”’ So, I I couldn’t really It was a weird like mental thing"
"it wasn’t until we started shooting that moments would happen, some of them that are in the film, and then after Lance and I would talk about what we thought happened there, and we’d be completely disagree on what something meant to us or what we thought was happening. And then we were like, ‘Oh, this is a really interesting if we can’t agree on what’s happening, there’s something here’"
"every person that worked on this movie was going through a similar like feeling of cognitive dissonance where we would we would unpack the day’s events, and no one could agree on like the seemingly mundane moments that have that were that would transpire. Everyone had a different point of view"
"we said to A24, like, ‘We cannot promise we’ll deliver anything on this. We don’t know what the story is, but we wanted to just see what will happen if we go with cameras.’ And they were like, ‘Okay, that’s fine. And if you want to pull the plug anytime, you can do it’"
"when I met her, um I remember having this weird experience that I sort of like talk about in there where I’m like she seems s, but then I’m like, ‘No, I’m clocking like tracking my thoughts and being like, “Okay, I know she’s a liar.”’ So, I I couldn’t really It was a weird like mental thing"
"it wasn’t until we started shooting that moments would happen, some of them that are in the film, and then after Lance and I would talk about what we thought happened there, and we’d be completely disagree on what something meant to us or what we thought was happening. And then we were like, ‘Oh, this is a really interesting if we can’t agree on what’s happening, there’s something here’"
"every person that worked on this movie was going through a similar like feeling of cognitive dissonance where we would we would unpack the day’s events, and no one could agree on like the seemingly mundane moments that have that were that would transpire. Everyone had a different point of view"
"we said to A24, like, ‘We cannot promise we’ll deliver anything on this. We don’t know what the story is, but we wanted to just see what will happen if we go with cameras.’ And they were like, ‘Okay, that’s fine. And if you want to pull the plug anytime, you can do it’"
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For fourteen years, everyone thought U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman died in the first two minutes on top of a freezing 10,000-foot mountain in Afghanistan.
Then modern image technology unlocked the thermal camera footage recorded by a Predator drone circling high 4, 2002.
When Pentagon investigators watched the enhanced screen, hardened combat generals broke down in tears. Because the video proved that after everyone else had left the mountain peak, John Chapman woke up alone in the snow and fought an entire army by himself.
That night on the peak of Takur Ghar, thirty-six-year-old Chapman, a father of two little girls from Connecticut, had charged uphill through thigh-deep snow alone to silence an enemy bunker and save his pinned-down team. Hit from a second bunker, he fell motionless. Believing he was dead, the surviving team was forced to retreat down the ridge.
Chapman was not dead.
The drone footage showed him regaining consciousness in the pitch-black snow, surrounded on three sides by enemy fighters, with nine separate wounds in his body.
In total darkness, with no comrade beside him and nobody on earth watching except a silent camera in the sky, he refused to surrender. For more than an hour, he fought from inside the bunker, killing an enemy fighter in bare-handed close combat when they tried to rush him.
Then, at dawn, Chapman heard the heavy thump of rotor blades in the mist.
An American Chinook helicopter carrying twenty-three U.S. Army Rangers was flying straight toward the peak to rescue him, right into the sights of an enemy rocket launcher.
Chapman knew that if he stayed safe inside the rock bunker, those twenty-three young Americans in the helicopter would be blown out of the sky.
So on the thermal video, investigators watched John Chapman deliberately climb out of the bunker, stand up tall in the open snow, and fire into the enemy positions to draw every machine gun on the mountain onto his own chest.
He died in the snow as the sun rose, shielding the incoming helicopter with his life.
True bushido is what a warrior does when he thinks nobody will ever know his story. The sky was watching, John. And America will remember your name forever.
Then modern image technology unlocked the thermal camera footage recorded by a Predator drone circling high 4, 2002.
When Pentagon investigators watched the enhanced screen, hardened combat generals broke down in tears. Because the video proved that after everyone else had left the mountain peak, John Chapman woke up alone in the snow and fought an entire army by himself.
That night on the peak of Takur Ghar, thirty-six-year-old Chapman, a father of two little girls from Connecticut, had charged uphill through thigh-deep snow alone to silence an enemy bunker and save his pinned-down team. Hit from a second bunker, he fell motionless. Believing he was dead, the surviving team was forced to retreat down the ridge.
Chapman was not dead.
The drone footage showed him regaining consciousness in the pitch-black snow, surrounded on three sides by enemy fighters, with nine separate wounds in his body.
In total darkness, with no comrade beside him and nobody on earth watching except a silent camera in the sky, he refused to surrender. For more than an hour, he fought from inside the bunker, killing an enemy fighter in bare-handed close combat when they tried to rush him.
Then, at dawn, Chapman heard the heavy thump of rotor blades in the mist.
An American Chinook helicopter carrying twenty-three U.S. Army Rangers was flying straight toward the peak to rescue him, right into the sights of an enemy rocket launcher.
Chapman knew that if he stayed safe inside the rock bunker, those twenty-three young Americans in the helicopter would be blown out of the sky.
So on the thermal video, investigators watched John Chapman deliberately climb out of the bunker, stand up tall in the open snow, and fire into the enemy positions to draw every machine gun on the mountain onto his own chest.
He died in the snow as the sun rose, shielding the incoming helicopter with his life.
True bushido is what a warrior does when he thinks nobody will ever know his story. The sky was watching, John. And America will remember your name forever.
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Rob Tiffany retweeted
A self-taught programmer from Kazakhstan helped build a company that went from making $20 million a year to making $20 million a week.
Jensen Huang made his first ever trip to Kazakhstan this week, and on the same day Nvidia announced it had invested in that company. It's called Higgsfield, and in this clip Jensen calls its founders some of the brightest people in the world.
The programmer is Yerzat Dulat, and he runs the models and the training infrastructure. His co-founder Alex Mashrabov had already done this once before. He built AI Factory, the face animation tech behind Snapchat's Cameos, and sold it to Snap for $166 million. Then he ran generative AI at Snap and led the team behind My AI, which got to 150 million users.
In late 2023 he texted a friend that he was leaving Snap to build something really big this time, and asked if he knew a great researcher to do it with.
That's pretty much how it played out. Annualized revenue was about $20 million in August 2025, $200 million by New Year's, $700 million this August, and over $1 billion in September. Most of the engineering team is in Kazakhstan. Back in January they became the country's first ever unicorn at $1.3 billion, and by August DST Global was paying $5.4 billion.
Now put that next to Cursor, which everybody calls the fastest growing software company ever. When Cursor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue last November, investors valued it at $29.3 billion. Higgsfield crossed the same line with its last priced round at under a fifth of that.
Most of that money now comes from companies, too. Businesses were less than a quarter of Higgsfield's revenue in January and they're the majority now. 390 of the Fortune 500 use it, and brands like Dollar Shave Club crank out batches of ad videos every single day, where they used to shoot one for a whole campaign.
And Nvidia probably saw all of this coming before almost anyone. Every version of Higgsfield has run on Nvidia chips, from L40s through Hopper and Blackwell, with Vera Rubin up next, and the platform now pushes around 12 trillion tokens a month across 150 million generations. This wasn't a bet Jensen had to make blind.
Kazakhstan spent the last month throwing a national AI Month to show the world it can build serious AI companies. Pretty good timing that the guy closing it out had just invested in one.
Jensen Huang made his first ever trip to Kazakhstan this week, and on the same day Nvidia announced it had invested in that company. It's called Higgsfield, and in this clip Jensen calls its founders some of the brightest people in the world.
The programmer is Yerzat Dulat, and he runs the models and the training infrastructure. His co-founder Alex Mashrabov had already done this once before. He built AI Factory, the face animation tech behind Snapchat's Cameos, and sold it to Snap for $166 million. Then he ran generative AI at Snap and led the team behind My AI, which got to 150 million users.
In late 2023 he texted a friend that he was leaving Snap to build something really big this time, and asked if he knew a great researcher to do it with.
That's pretty much how it played out. Annualized revenue was about $20 million in August 2025, $200 million by New Year's, $700 million this August, and over $1 billion in September. Most of the engineering team is in Kazakhstan. Back in January they became the country's first ever unicorn at $1.3 billion, and by August DST Global was paying $5.4 billion.
Now put that next to Cursor, which everybody calls the fastest growing software company ever. When Cursor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue last November, investors valued it at $29.3 billion. Higgsfield crossed the same line with its last priced round at under a fifth of that.
Most of that money now comes from companies, too. Businesses were less than a quarter of Higgsfield's revenue in January and they're the majority now. 390 of the Fortune 500 use it, and brands like Dollar Shave Club crank out batches of ad videos every single day, where they used to shoot one for a whole campaign.
And Nvidia probably saw all of this coming before almost anyone. Every version of Higgsfield has run on Nvidia chips, from L40s through Hopper and Blackwell, with Vera Rubin up next, and the platform now pushes around 12 trillion tokens a month across 150 million generations. This wasn't a bet Jensen had to make blind.
Kazakhstan spent the last month throwing a national AI Month to show the world it can build serious AI companies. Pretty good timing that the guy closing it out had just invested in one.
Jensen Huang: “… the founders of Higgsfield are visionary in the work that they do … but these are some of the brightest people in the world.”
We're grateful to Jensen and the teams at NVIDIA and TCV for believing in us. Both companies have joined Higgsfield as investors in
Since our August Series B:
• We’ve crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue.
• Enterprise contracts are up 71%, growing 100%+ month-over-month
• We’ve grown from 30 million to over 40 million users globally.
TCV has backed Netflix, Facebook, ByteDance and Spotify, companies that changed how people create and consume media. NVIDIA has powered every generation of Higgsfield, from L40 and A40 GPUs through Hopper and Blackwell, with Vera Rubin next to meet growing demand.
Thank you to our creators and customers for building with us every day, and to everyone at Higgsfield whose work brought us here.
The full Bloomberg Announcement is linked below.
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Today we honor my brothers and sisters who fought in the Persian Gulf War as we kick off the National Desert Storm Memorial dedication ceremony this morning in Washington, D.C..
The memorial is located at the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans to Constitution Avenue.
It honors almost a million soldiers, airmen, and sailors from a 42-nation coalition that united in order to liberate Kuwait from Iraq back in 1991.
Getting this memorial built was a grassroots effort spearheaded by Marine veteran Scott Stump with many of us, including the nation of Kuwait, contributing in order to raise the $42 million needed to make this happen.
Today is a great day!
The memorial is located at the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans to Constitution Avenue.
It honors almost a million soldiers, airmen, and sailors from a 42-nation coalition that united in order to liberate Kuwait from Iraq back in 1991.
Getting this memorial built was a grassroots effort spearheaded by Marine veteran Scott Stump with many of us, including the nation of Kuwait, contributing in order to raise the $42 million needed to make this happen.
Today is a great day!
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Rob Tiffany retweeted
Incredible footage from May 1962: USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) executing the Operation Dominic Frigate Bird test. History's only submerged SLBM launch to end in a live nuclear detonation, firing a Polaris missile armed with a W47-Y1 600-kiloton warhead. With views from Balao-class (SS-337).
65 years ago today: the first submerged Polaris A2 missile launch was performed by USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) off of Cape Canaveral (pictured).
Ethan Allen is the only submarine in history to conduct a submerged SLBM launch that ended in a live nuclear detonation.
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25 years ago today, we introduced the iPod. 1,000 songs in your pocket.
A small team. An unforgiving deadline. We had months to bring the hardware, software, and music experience together. Proud of what we built and that it means so much to people still today. A device that has been woven in many ways into our lives. People have filled their iPods with road trips, breakups, workouts, special occasions with family and friends.
How cool that the iPod has become part of culture and our stories. 25 years, it’s hard to believe! Celebrating the team that made it happen today 👏
@StevenLevy was there from the start @WIRED wired.com/story/im-still…
A small team. An unforgiving deadline. We had months to bring the hardware, software, and music experience together. Proud of what we built and that it means so much to people still today. A device that has been woven in many ways into our lives. People have filled their iPods with road trips, breakups, workouts, special occasions with family and friends.
How cool that the iPod has become part of culture and our stories. 25 years, it’s hard to believe! Celebrating the team that made it happen today 👏
@StevenLevy was there from the start @WIRED wired.com/story/im-still…
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Thanks to @common, @TheChainsmokers, and @tiesto for putting on an amazing show to close out an incredible #CloudflareConnect!
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Somewhere, a CTO just found out their servers still run PHP 5.6 💀
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The current state of apps on iPhone Duo: youtu.be/ESABTN4VtrA
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Hey folks, this is a big deal, so listen up!
The #NSA issued an urgent warning this morning over two critical #PHP #security flaws that could put websites all over the world at risk.
You already know that PHP-powered #WordPress instances account for over 40% of the web and PHP ent as many as 70% of websites on the #Internet.
Organizations have been urged to take their affected systems offline if they cannot be immediately patched/secured.
We’re looking at CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619 that allow unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP.
As you might imagine, outages are being reported all over the globe.
The #NSA issued an urgent warning this morning over two critical #PHP #security flaws that could put websites all over the world at risk.
You already know that PHP-powered #WordPress instances account for over 40% of the web and PHP ent as many as 70% of websites on the #Internet.
Organizations have been urged to take their affected systems offline if they cannot be immediately patched/secured.
We’re looking at CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619 that allow unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP.
As you might imagine, outages are being reported all over the globe.
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Organizations that embraced “API-First” product development principles after REST became a thing two decades ago stand to benefit most in the Agentic Internet era.
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Common kicks things off at @Cloudflare Connect 2026 with an amazing rap letting everyone know that the Agentic Internet is here.
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