Show Notes
Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.
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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
Ports Repository Freeze
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