Daily Tech News 13 September 2026

• LG televisions are spyware, part one:
  
  
  
  Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.
  
  
  
• LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware:
  
  

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for the US government to force all his competitors to slow down development, preferably using drone strikes. (New York Times)
  
  Can you spell "regulatory capture", boys and girls?
  
  Timmy? Yes, it was already evident in the Code of Hammurabi. I see you're been keeping up with assigned reading.
  
  
  
• Iran and Iran's Houthi proxies in Yemen use Anthropic's Claude to develop hypersonic missiles and target US warships. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Where for me Claude Opus dropped from version 5 down to 4.8 because it hallucinated the term "cyber" when working with a CBOR library - the Concise Binary Object Representation.
  
  
  
• Sony's PlayStation division ditched its partnership with Hideo Kojima over fears that the game might not be a colossal failure. (Yahoo)
  
  Microsoft's Xbox division briefly put its own string of colossal failures on hold to snap him up.
  
  
  
• Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120. Just now merging in nana book - an option that fires up a local website with up to date documentation of the language and libraries, reading directly from docstrings and definitions in the code.
  
  Just waiting for a build to complete, but it looks like the binary with all the new features might be smaller than yesterday's binary because I previously missed a compression option. On Linux and Windows there's no install required - download it, run it, it works. It adds 0.1 to 0.2 seconds to the startup time depending on your CPU, but you can decompress it to get startup down to 1% of that if that's a factor.
  
  Update: So... Stripped and compressed, it comes out to 3.3MB 3.7MB, which is smaller only 100k larger than two days ago. Startup time has increased though to 150ms. Mostly not an issue.
  
  

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