The researchers have discovered that automatic content recognition (ACR) tracking is active most of the time, even when TVs are used as “dumb” HDMI devices. In other words, the TV manufacturers are monitoring your private moments as well. There’s apparently no monitoring of streaming content in the UK, but there is in the US.

The only good news is that these TVs can seemingly be configured to disable ACR, provided the owners know this activity is taking place and are able to find the right settings. (I recently looked at the configuration of our TVs again, and understanding the various settings was far from easy.)

I had to look hard to find a good news article in the WBW this week.

A collection of documents dating back to at least the 17th century, which was discovered in a chest in Rushcliffe village last year, is being donated to the

The birds, all members of the heron family, have nested in trees on an island at Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s Besthorpe Nature Reserve in the Trent Valley

The star of Citizen Smith, GBH and much more on the ‘genius’ of James Graham’s BBC drama, his unlikely way into acting, and learning to simmer down on social media

I have been using Firefox with Ublock Origin as my main browser for a long while. Usually when I get a privacy prompt, I reject cookies, or maybe some sites that are more difficult take me a to a panel that wants me to switch off loads of individual trackers.

How does Ublock handle the cookies? Obviously some are required for site functionality, such as being logged in here, but if I accept cookies (or can't reject them) then presumably they are still accepted? Or does it accept the essential ones and delete third-party trackers?

Following this year’s edition of the heavy metal festival Bloodstock (8-11 August) at Catton Park, 55 bikers on Harley Davidsons transported the ashes of the

Any other regional UK-centric groups in the Lemmyverse I may have missed?

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Police turned out in numbers in West Bridgford from around 7 pm this evening as protests were expected across the country at immigration centres.