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Court orders Samsung to stop "spying" on Texans through its TVs
https://www.sammobile.com/2026/01/07/court-orders-samsung-to-stop-spying-on-texans-through-its-tvs/

Court orders Samsung to stop “spying” on Texans through its TVs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had filed lawsuits against Samsung and other TV manufacturers last month, alleging that they're spying on Texas residents through their TVs. A preliminary relief has been granted, as a Temporary Restraining Order has been granted by the District Court, which stops Samsung from doing what it was doing. Similar lawsuits

@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.

A Bridge from Audio to Video: Phoneme-Viseme Alignment Allows Every Face to Speak Multiple Languages
Zibo Su, Kun Wei, Jiahua Li, Xu Yang, Cheng Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06612

A Bridge from Audio to Video: Phoneme-Viseme Alignment Allows Every Face to Speak Multiple Languages
Speech-driven talking face synthesis (TFS) focuses on generating lifelike facial animations from audio input. Current TFS models perform well in English but unsatisfactorily in non-English languages, producing wrong mouth shapes and rigid facial expressions. The terrible performance is caused by the English-dominated training datasets and the lack of cross-language generalization abilities. Thus, we propose Multilingual Experts (MuEx), a novel framework featuring a Phoneme-Guided Mixture-of-Exp…

I know dunking on Google's AI summaries is cheap, but this did give me a chuckle:

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Stau verstehen
https://www.heise.de/news/Web-Tip…

each month, my building posts a neighborhood events calendar
inexplicably, this month it's Very Incorrect AI Slop that:
- Has droopy typos
- Has times with no event name
- Starts on the wrong day
- Doesn't have a single correct event date
- Really likes Dallas
how did they not notice ???

I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…

Unpacking Discourses on Childbirth and Parenthood in Popular Social Media Platforms Across China, Japan, and South Korea
Zheng Wei, Yunqi Li, Yucheng He, Yuelu Li, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu, Pan Hui, Muzhi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06788

Unpacking Discourses on Childbirth and Parenthood in Popular Social Media Platforms Across China, Japan, and South Korea
Social media use has been shown to be associated with low fertility desires. However, we know little about the discourses surrounding childbirth and parenthood that people consume online. We analyze 219,127 comments on 668 short videos related to reproduction and parenthood from Douyin and Tiktok in China, South Korea, and Japan, a region famous for its extremely low fertility level, to examine the topics and sentiment expressed online. BERTopic model is used to assist thematic analysis, and a …

Today is going to be a good day for several large (very large) shots of Scotch.
Working with client for a test file and asked questions on how we are to set up the test environment. It hit me after I asked that I didn't even know what the hell those changes to the files were for.
I checked our current release documents and the next release documents. Zero notes on the changes. I am the release coordinator and I remember nothing on the topic for the current two releases. …

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Raumgestaltung für jedermann
https://www.…