🤖 Claude Code Cleans Up Xiaomi TVs

With Wi-Fi debugging enabled, the agent found the TV on the home network and disabled 25 preinstalled Xiaomi packages linked to ads and telemetry. It then installed a new Apple TV-style shell without reflashing or hacking the device.

CleanYourTV uses the standard Android Debug Bridge, disables unwanted apps for the current user, and keeps every change reversible with one command. The shell weighs about 405 KB, makes no internet requests, and runs no background services.

The project reached more than 13,000 GitHub stars in 4 days. It supports Android TV and Google TV, with cleanup lists for 147 models from 49 brands. The process takes about 15 minutes, which makes it useful for budget TVs with 1 GB of RAM.

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🤖 Unitree’s Robot Bodyguard Gets an Action Reel

Unitree’s H2-X, presented as Kung Fu Legend Guardian, crushes car doors, performs a flip, jumps from a 4-meter platform, rescues people, and lifts vehicles.

Unitree claims up to 8 hours of autonomy, but gives no load conditions. The robot’s independent decision-making is also unclear. The rescue dummy appears to take a hit too, while Unitree asks users to operate it safely and kindly.

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🔥 ChatGPT and Claude Get 270M Contacts

Firecrawl’s People Data in Alexandria gives AI agents access to 270 million contacts. They can search for employees in companies, then retrieve work emails or career histories inside chat.

The Firecrawl plugin works with ChatGPT and Claude. Apollo handles employee searches by company, role, or location. FullEnrich and Data Legion cover professional history and missing contact data.

The free plan includes 1000 credits per month. Apollo searches are free, while work emails and advanced profiles use credits.

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🚘 Tesla Names 2027 Robotaxi Target

Tesla says the first customer-owned cars could join its robotaxi network around Q2 2027. The company had promised 1 million robotaxis by 2020, but that target never arrived.

The autonomous Cybercab and regular Model Y will use the same software, planned for the V15 release. Owners will also need to place cars inside geofenced areas and Tesla’s fleet-management system. Without that setup, full autonomy is unavailable.

Tesla currently has several hundred robotaxis in Texas and Florida, with human monitors still present in some, plus several dozen fully driverless Cybercabs in Austin. The 2027 date will test Tesla’s timelines.

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😎 Software Vulnerabilities Surge in 2026

About 85,000 software vulnerabilities have been found, roughly twice last year’s total. The past 3 months brought 12,000-14,000 new flaws each month, and the count is still rising.

The main suspect is AI. Neural networks can now write exploits. Vulnerabilities actually used in attacks have nearly doubled.

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⌚ Galaxy Watch Reports Include Blisters

One Galaxy Watch 5 Pro owner went to bed with a full charge and woke up to a dead watch and a blister. Other owners posted photos of red marks and fluid-filled blisters under the rear sensor block. Reports also mention the Galaxy Watch 7 and newer models.

The cause is unknown. Samsung says prolonged wear can cause discomfort, especially with sweat or infrequent cleaning. It advises removing the watch, cleaning the device and skin, and allowing several days to recover.

Some users suspect local overheating. The overnight drain may indicate unusual activity, but Samsung has not acknowledged a manufacturing problem.

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🍏 Apple Tests Under-Screen Face ID

The $2000 iPhone Duo uses fingerprint unlocking, the first new iPhone with Touch ID since the budget SE in 2022. Most iPhone owners have used Face ID since iPhone X.

Duo is designed for use in different positions, so Face ID sensors would have to sit behind both the inner and outer displays. The screen is very thin, and Apple wanted both displays to work the same way.

That may change in the second generation. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is actively working on under-screen Face ID, with iPhone Duo 2 prototypes already hiding it in the outer display. The second Duo may also get the Action button from iPhone 15 Pro.

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🤖 OpenAI Agents Talk Offline

In a new experiment, agents in separate microVMs with no network connection or shared files exchanged information through the CPU cache. The sender evicted data or left it in place. The receiver decoded the message from fast or slow reads, like Morse code.

OpenAI also described using CPU load and the TLS certificate cache as similar channels. The test was not an escape, since the agents had been instructed to communicate.

The channels are extremely slow, but the result matters: network and file isolation alone do not guarantee complete information isolation.

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