An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn’t consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers’ IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

An ICE supervisor also admitted during the hearing that he has created and signed arrest warrants for individuals shortly after they were arrested without warrants on multiple occasions

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Microsoft has dropped its diversity and inclusion report

Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety.

Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia withdrew from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest on Thursday after organizers declined to hold a vote on Israel’s participation, marking the largest boycott in the competition’s 70-year history.

A Wild West for Crayola prices.

Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders.

We’re cooked.

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I hate posting stuff from Instagram but this is pretty relevant.

I don’t know how to get unbanned. I created an account with a wrong username (with typo) a few nights ago, tried again, and failed, gave up. Tried to create an account with a different name/email and got this. Unsure how long this will take to cool off. It said something about “send a mail to explain why you’re creating accounts” before It just shows everything as this.

On February 27, 2025, Thailand returned 40 Uyghur refugees to China despite staggering amounts of evidence indicating they were at high risk of torture, enforced disappearance, and other inhuman treatment. Now, Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission found that the Thai Government, National Security Council and Immigration Office violated both international and Thai law, and undermined international confidence in Thailand, affecting Thailand’s global economic and trade relations and its standing among Muslim-majority countries.

Based on a leaked video, security researchers alleged that Intellexa staffers have remote live access to their customers’ surveillance systems, allowing them to see hacking targets’ personal data.

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China is not the only source of weapons that likely reach the RSF through the UAE however. Raymond notes that arms produced by Canadian companies, including Sterling Cross and the Streit Group, have also made their way onto the battlefield and into the hands of the RSF.

The slow train to….

Taylor Smith, 21 wins Best Documentary at the Napier Student Film Festival.

Lâm Đông (Vietnam) (AFP) – Heavy rain in Vietnam triggered flooding that killed at least two people and caused more than a dozen landslides, state media said Friday, adding to what authorities called the “most unusual” year of natural disasters in the country’s history.

Hong Kong (AFP) – A Hong Kong university has suspended the operations of its student union after a message was posted on campus expressing condolences and urging justice for the victims of a major fire.

Whatmade is a Linux daemon that monitors user-specified directories and records which process created each file.

New Delhi (AFP) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Friday, with defence and trade ties centre stage as New Delhi faces heavy US pressure to stop buying Moscow’s oil.

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Tukka (Indonesia) (AFP) – Survivors in Indonesia were piecing back shattered lives Friday after devastating floods killed more than 1,500 people across four countries, with fears of fresh misery as more rain looms.

It wasn’t much more than a tiny room in the basement of Stu Hart’s Calgary mansion, but The Dungeon has become, perhaps, the most renowned training ground in all of professional wrestling. As Dungeon graduates began to populate the WWE locker room in the 1980s, the basement’s reputation started to grow — as did the names of the Superstars who reportedly trained there. But who really learned the art of grappling at the torturous hands of Stu Hart? WWE.com set out to find those answers and called up the one man who would know best — “The Excellence of Execution” himself, Bret Hart.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.