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Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs

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Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant shown running on a Samsung smart TV.

Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central.

The news comes not from an official announcement from LG, Samsung, or Microsoft, but from an on-screen notification that appeared on Windows Central's Zac Bowden's webOS-powered LG TV earlier today. "Microsoft has recently decided to end support for Copilot functionality on all TVs, including the Copilot-enabled feature available on our LG TVs. As a result, the Copilot-enabled feat …

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XREAL AURA: Wired XR glasses to watch, work, and play

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XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR, lets you work, watch, and play anywhere with Gemini by your side.
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Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model

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Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
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EMACS Turns 50

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"EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!" writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards. A few years later, MIT engineers programmed the Whirlwind by punching code onto paper tape that was then loaded into the computer's memory -- making it among the first "stored-program" machines. Later, they and others moved on to punch cards, one for each line of code. By the early 1960s, programmers with interactive computers could use a "line editor" to type their code on teletypes -- large, noisy keyboard-and-printer machines. They'd type one line of code at a time, and their work would be saved on a spinning hard disk the size of a modern washing machine. But there was still no such thing as the now-familiar full-screen text editors that allow programmers to see and modify many lines at a time on a display. One of the first such tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is still widely used. EMACS first ran on the early video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, but its core concepts were so powerful that it was rewritten for many operating systems in the decades that followed. Apple even distributed it with Mac OS X. Beyond that, the software-sharing community that started around EMACS helped give rise to the modern-day free software movement and the GNU/Linux operating system.

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Power Without Binaries: Native Offensive Techniques in Fileless Runtimes

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Speaker: Max Covey Advanced stealth tradecraft, including syscall dispatching, unmanaged memory access, and runtime evasion, is typically designed for compiled binaries. This talk explores what happens when those traditionally native capabilities are translated into a fileless runtime. PowerShell was chosen as the target runtime because it is broadly available in Windows environments and exposes surprisingly low-level .NET and unmanaged functionality while often remaining enabled in enterprise settings. Rather than treating PowerShell as "just" an automation tool, this research asks how far a fileless scripting runtime can be pushed toward native offensive capability development. I will walk through the technical implementation realities including AMSI, CLR behavior, modern AV/EDR visibility, and where AI-assisted workflows accelerated difficult interoperability and translation challenges. Through a progression of working and failed implementations for a fileless process injector, attendees will see how traditionally native tradecraft evolves from standard C and ASM to WinAPI, NTAPI, direct syscalls, and indirect syscalls performed entirely within PowerShell. Techniques discussed include P/Invoke, marshalling, unmanaged invocation, shellcode loading, process injection, ntdll parsing, and syscall strategies within a fileless context. A pre-recorded proof of concept will show the resulting framework successfully operating in a fileless execution model to perform process injection. This will be followed by a discussion of observability, detection opportunities, and defensive implications. The framework will be publicly available at the time of the talk. For defenders, this talk highlights meaningful opportunities for telemetry, detection engineering, and defensive prioritization. ⚠️ *Microsoft **requires** everyone to check-in before entering their facility. You must provide your first and last name when signing up for this in-person event to be on the attendees list we submit to Microsoft.* ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 **philly.NET is also on:** * [GitHub](https://github.com/phillydotnet) · phillydotnet * [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/phillydotnet) · phillydotnet * [Discord](https://discord.gg/j7mFC6H8jE) · PhillyDotNet * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/137867/) · philly.NET * [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/phillydotnet/) · phillydotnet * [Mastadon](https://jawns.club/@phillydotnet) · phillydotnet@jawns.club * [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/phillynet) · phillynet * [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@phillydotnet) · phillydotnet * [X (Twitter)](https://x.com/home) · phillydotnet
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Apple unveils groundbreaking MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display

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Apple today introduced the all-new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display featuring breakthrough tandem OLED technology.

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