Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-22.

9 new stories since Morning.

LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 296 points, 308 comments (discussion)

42% of the apps on LG's platform have these quasi-malware SDKs in them? Seems kinda bad, whether it's due to negligence or just pure incompetence? You'd think there might be legal consequences for a corporation that lets their app store turn into a malware delivery system?

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack

Sources: Slashdot

Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products

Sources: The Register

60 FPS NES Emulator on ESP32

Sources: Hackaday

Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

Sources: The Register

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Sources: Lobsters

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

Sources: The Register

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

Sources: The Register

Rewriting the Futhark type checker

Sources: Lobsters