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LG monitors are quietly installing software on Windows machines through the official Windows Update channel — without asking users first. That's a significant breach of trust, using Microsoft's own trusted update pipeline to push software people never agreed to. It raises real questions about what hardware makers believe they're entitled to do once a device is in your home.
Shifting to a story that's equal parts barnyard and data center — a British farm is converting pig slurry into electricity and using it to power a small AI computing facility on-site. Farmers generating their own compute power can reportedly earn ten times more than selling energy back to the grid, with cryptocurrency mining helping recover startup costs in roughly four years. It's an unlikely pairing, but the economics are hard to argue with.
And from a developer on Hacker News, there's a crowdfunding idea gaining attention — a simple hardware device that converts any old USB printer into a wireless one, working across Windows, macOS, Linux, and mobile, no outdated drivers required. It's a small idea solving a genuinely persistent problem that millions of households quietly wrestle with every day.
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