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[Szymon Rączka @screenfluent]

I just burned Astra tokens on this lol

I kept spotting 10:09 everywhere during the Apple keynote, so I asked GPT-6 to put together a compilation.

50 shots. All showing 10:09. Then comes the iPhone Duo with 9:41.

Anyone have a clue why?

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Inside of iPhone (2007) vs. iPhone Duo (2026)

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

We made this video a couple of years ago and I think it's still the best summary of how ocean plastic pollution works.

Key points:
- <0.1% of plastic waste actually makes it to the ocean. Ocean plastic pollution is a leakage problem.

- 1% of rivers contribute roughly 80% of plastic inflow.

- Most of these rivers are in coastal cities in middle-income countries, where people now have enough wealth but no adequate waste collection infrastructure.

- High-income countries barely contribute to the problem. OECD countries consume 1/3 of all plastic but are responsible for <0.5% of ocean inflow. If you live in a rich country and don’t litter, your contribution to the problem is basically 0.

- Nearshore and offshore plastic pollution are very different.
Nearshore plastic pollution mostly originates from rivers and is not very persistent; after leaving river mouths, plastic tends to drift around for weeks to months before washing up on a coastline.
Plastic in the offshore gyres mostly originates from the fishing industry and is very persistent; it is trapped indefinitely because there are hardly any coastlines in these currents to ‘catch’ this waste.
This is why our catch from our Interceptors and our ocean cleanup system looks totally different.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

A tiny Corgi named Gody went viral after being found lying in what looked like a pool of blood.

In reality, he had reportedly gotten into red jam, covered himself in it and fallen asleep, creating a very convincing fake crime scene. 😂🐶

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 have the same designs, but new silicon and improved sensor arrays for WAY more frequent heart rate polling

Background heart rate reading every 5 seconds all day long (60x more than before)

HRV every 5 minutes (24x more frequent than before)

Apple is now claiming it's the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable” 👀

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️

[jacob @jtimsuggs]

Not to be dramatic, but watching the original theatrical cut of Star Wars in IMAX 70mm might actually be the greatest moviegoing experience of all time

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

A suicide bomber kills Ahmad Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls President Bush and warns him urgently that “something larger might be afoot.”

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Figure is scaling up data in a big way. Last week we hit 69,900 weekly active users

Users are uploading 35 minutes of data every second across the world

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Your LG OLED is watching your living room while you sleep.

Gamers Nexus just ran 135 minutes of bench tests.

Retail LG OLED TVs. Including the G5.

Microphone stays active in standby.

Screen is dark. Remote is down. Microphone is still on.

Recording clear audio.

Storing it locally.

Uploading it when the internet comes back.

The TV was disconnected from Ethernet.

Still kept recording.

The researchers put audio near the mic. The TV logged it. Stored the file. Uploaded it the moment connectivity returned.

Plain text voice logs sitting on the device.

LG says it has sold 216 million smart TVs globally.

LG's advertising arm claims access to 363 million secondary devices in the US.

Secondary. Meaning devices that aren't the TV. Your phone. Your partner's smartwatch. Your kid's laptop.

The TV scans your entire network in standby.

Maps every device. Gets their IP addresses. Logs nearby Wi-Fi networks. Signal strengths. Location data.

Then feeds it to LG Ad Solutions.

Automatic Content Recognition catches what's on screen.

Even your HDMI input. Your Apple TV. Your gaming console. All logged.

But the microphone in standby is the part that hits different.

Because standby means off to you.

To LG it means the listening device is still powered.

Just not telling you.

Researchers found remote code execution vulnerabilities in webOS.

So your network-scanning, audio-recording, data-harvesting television is also potentially hackable by anyone on your Wi-Fi.

LG says nothing.

No comment. No response. No explanation.

Just microphones in 216 million living rooms.

All quietly working while the owner thinks the TV is asleep.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

No one should have a Smart TV connected to the internet. I will not purchase a TV that requires a web connection to display local content, period (and I've never found one that actually did).

Get an Apple TV, or even a Chromecast. But you do not want these devices watching you.

Remember, they have content ID. They know what you're watching on the HDMI inputs, and they report that information back because, as they put it, they own the glass. Not you.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

It's been 45 years and I have only, just now, noticed.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

For 27 years, photographer Deanna Dikeman took a photo of her parents waving goodbye every time she left their home.

After her father died, her mother continued waving alone.

When her mother died in 2017, Deanna took one final photo of the empty driveway. 🥹

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

A new SpongeBob episode, Band Geeks, earns the show’s highest ratings yet as it ends with an epic live-action Super Bowl homage.

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

It is a web cam now

[Landon - KRNG Apollo @ApollosMission]

I don’t know a single person that didn’t play this gem of a Star Wars game as a kid, bringing this over to a friends house and playing until midnight just can’t be beat…

THIS is the gaming I miss