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Which smart TV brands offer the longest software support?

Which smart TV brands offer the longest software support?

When you spend a lot on on a TV, you expect it to last a while. But that support period varies wildly by manufacturer.

Hacker News1hWhy Sweden is abandoning its cashless society Hacker News3hAOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs Hacker News3hAnthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse Hacker News4hFelix Rieseberg Homepage Hacker News6hIs 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?TechCrunch7hJustice Department says North Koreans have infiltrated dozens of U.S. companiesU.S. authorities warn that sanctioned hackers are increasingly targeting Americans to act as facilitators between breached U.S. companies and Pyongyang.Hacker News8hI built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video Hacker News8hDo Frameworks Matter Anymore?Engadget9hIs Mini DisplayPort becoming obsolete?Mini DisplayPort was on lots of computers for a time, but it's not nearly as common now thanks to more modern standards.TechCrunch10hScience Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patientMax Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).Hacker News10hShow HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machineHi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine, and the app sends no analytics or crash logs. I felt there are TechCrunch10hCerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at homeCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.Engadget10hHow to improve your online privacy and security in Google ChromeGoogle has much to gain by collecting data from you through your activity on Chrome, but you can make it harder.Engadget10hApple TV 4K 2022 vs. 2026: What's new and is it worth the $100 jump?The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well.TechCrunch10hIndustrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeksIndustrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.Ars Technica10hMartin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says"I can always find a couple of biotech stocks to smoke," Shkreli said in a livestream.Hacker News10hGrace Hopper Celebration Cancelled TechCrunch10hCerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warningsCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.Hacker News10hRecreational Programming Hacker News10hRunning Qwen3.8 at 255 tok/s on a single 5090 Engadget10hAre Chromebooks still worth buying after the Googlebooks release?Googlebooks represent a huge upgrade over Chromebooks, but the older devices still have their place.The Verge11hApple’s HomeView ad is confusing to everyone except parentsApple's ad introducing its new HomeView smart display is a little unusual. It's fast-paced and unruly, depicting a family of five as they rush through the morning routine. There's yelling and mess, misplaced keys and discarded eggshells. Apple's typical vibe is clean, simple, orderly; this commercia Engadget11h5 clever ways Gemini can automate everyday tasksIf you're not using some of these skills, you're missing out on a chance to streamline your days, keep up to date and more.Hacker News11hAlphaNIST Ars Technica11hESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablersBut third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards.Hacker News11hPhysical Intelligence API Beta: Frontier Models for Every Robot Engadget11hOpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its officesThe company asked its AI models to figure out what the device was.Ars Technica11hTopgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMwareTopgolf and VMware "ran deep" before the migration.TechCrunch12hHelix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollutionThe steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.Hacker News12hPostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery TechCrunch12hFBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference roomIt's not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to "capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology."The Verge12hOpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference roomAn OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral commu TechCrunch12hJudge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets caseA federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.Hacker News12hOpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference roomhttps://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 566 # Comments: 471 TechCrunch13hCambridge Heavy Industries has been quietly building a desktop fusion deviceFusion power startup Cambridge Heavy Industries is building a small, laser-powered fusion device to fuel the coming wave of fusion power plants.The Verge13hIt looks like Apple Music is getting a new iconApple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a slightly sharper angle than the original. A new Apple Music logo was also spotted last month on the Apple Mus TechCrunch13hLicube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch DisruptFusion power plants will need a lot of lithium, and Licube is preparing to be a key supplier.Hacker News13hOpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices Ars Technica13hTrump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked itUS attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads.Hacker News13hShow HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models addExisting benchmarks measure solve rate and token output/cost, but don't punish excess code, which makes a codebase harder to work with in the long term. I wanted to measure this since it matters most for long-term projects. Method: it takes the patches that benchmarks already publish (DeepSWE, SWE-b The Verge13hShopify opens its catalog up to more AI agentsMore AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion Hacker News14hThe Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicianshttps://celebratio.org/Appel_KI/article/796/#sender Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077096 Points: 54 # Comments: 31 Hacker News14hShow HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboardGuitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free chord tools and tuners.The Verge14hXbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game portsRetro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty a TechCrunch14hNiobia takes the guesswork out of some of tech’s most expensive mistakesThe San Francisco startup aims to help battery and chip manufacturers identify defects on production lines, reducing downtime and costly mistakes.Hacker News14hZero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain The Verge14hThe Nothing Headphone A are half off for the first timeOne of the best deals we’ve seen today bundles together a great pair of headphones with a solid album. When you add the Nothing Headphone A in black or white and the CD version of the Charli XCX album Music, Fashion, Film to your Amazon cart, you’ll save 33 percent on your order, bringing the […]The Verge14hRussian bot farms are still trolling, even after Ukraine’s drone strikes on YandexDays after Ukrainian military drones took down several Russian data centers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the campaign had hurt Russia's disinformation efforts. "It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social platforms," Zelenskyy said Monday. "There was less hate, less d TechCrunch14hRivian spinoff Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug FieldField also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.TechCrunch14hRivian’s startup Mind Robotics hires former Ford EV chief Doug FieldField also worked on Apple's secretive car project and oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3.TechCrunch14hFlox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roadsFlox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.The Verge14hRivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as presidentRivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO's secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company's ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to m Engadget14hWhat is NVIDIA DLSS and how does it work?NVIDIA's upscaling software is truly powerful when used in the right situations.Ars Technica14hDisney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot techDisney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.Engadget15hApple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 hands-on: A look at the audio updates and Siri AIListening to Apple's new audio features with Siri as our binge-watching companion.Engadget15hRyan Coogler's X-Files reboot gets a full series order from HuluIt stars two new FBI agents that aren't named Mulder and Scully.Hacker News15hA plea not to use uv-build Engadget15hDon't like your Facebook feed? Meta wants to know what you want to see insteadWithin reason, of course.Ars Technica15hSkydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percentThe higher prices are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger.