Android TV

I don't know that I would have the answers to this.

It's like, what do you do? Do you give everybody access to this nefarious stuff and then the whole world just gets hardened? Because like we said, we're having fun hacking our Android TVs.

But man, I guarantee you a year from now, all the new stuff is going to be so much more locked down where we're going to be like looking back at it and be like, like it's the same thing with like SQL injection.

You remember the days of SQL injection? You could just type or one equals one into a search box and, and you can have, it doesn't exist anymore.

Linux users are finally fighting back against TV bloat.

There are some open source projects out there that will help clean up your Android TV or your web OS or Samsung television and finally take it back and give the right to repair an injection right into your veins.

You are going to love this.

You have to catch this.

So there are two projects that we want to talk about this week.

One is Clean Your TV and the other is Dumb TV.

And Clean Your TV promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replace it with a launcher that more resembles, you might say, the Apple TV.

Which I would agree.

It started rolling out October 13th for DirecTV streaming customers on signature and genre plans.

First on Gemini and Roku with Android TV, Fire TV, Vizio, LG, Apple TV, and Samsung's Tizen coming later.

DirecTV has all the details if you want to know more about it.

But that's kind of what I've been waiting for.

Scanning the horizon.

Developers have used Claude Code to make two popular apps that promise to remove bloatware and ads from smart TVs.

J- we, now we have to do an updated video, Brian.

Well, uh-

I don't even know if we need to update, because I'm pretty sure that in our video I speculated how long until people just, uh, de-

Yeah

... fang their smart TVs.

The answer to Brian's question is now.

El propio equipo de seguridad de Anthropic acaba de publicar una advertencia: los modelos de inteligencia artificial pequeños podrían estar a meses de propagarse solos, sin ninguna ayuda humana, por su horno inteligente, su decodificador de TV, su aspiradora robot.

En pruebas de laboratorio, un modelo colonizó exitosamente quince decodificadores Android TV de marcas genéricas y, cito: «No existe un punto centralizado para apagarlos».

Para las consecuencias legales y regulatorias de esta semana cargada de noticias sobre seguridad en IA, le damos la palabra a Amber.

Europa pasó de las palabras a la acción el miércoles.

This is, I think, in the bootleg.

And the short version is the reason why Android TV is bad is your fault because you've bought them and we've enabled them.

I just bought a new one, and I cannot believe how bad it is.

I'm ashamed that I've paid them any money for anything that's gone towards Google TV at all.