Compose-based TV launcher: Apple + Android layouts, categories, Top 10, themes, Ask Gemini widget (remote mic key), minimal weather, news ticker, status bar, D-pad PIN lock, screensaver, calendar + ...

An AI coding assistant transformed a Fire TV Stick by removing advertisements, creating a minimalist interface and integrating Claude for smarter voice-based interactions.

Google and its partners disrupted XCPE, a botnet involving more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes, the company announced on November 2. The action removed the criminals’ remote access to the ...

Videostrong Technology deliberately embedded the XCPE backdoor in Google Play Protect-certified firmware, enrolling 1.3 million households in a criminal residential proxy botnet before Google permanen ...

Google dismantled a botnet secretly built into 1.3 million Android TV boxes by partner Videostrong. Here's what happened and who should be concerned now.

Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE botnet, which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes through preinstalled malware.

Google says one of its Android manufacturing partners secretly built a backdoor in 1.3 million devices and turned them into a ...

CleanYourTV is an open-source project that removes preinstalled software from Android TV and Fire TV devices over Wi-Fi. It needs no root access and uninstalls ...

A coalition of private-sector security firms working with Japan’s National Police Agency has disrupted XCPE, a backdoor used to build a massive botnet comprising more than 1.3 million Android devices ...

Google's Threat Intelligence Group, along with law enforcement and security firms, took down the XCPE botnet run by China's Videostrong Technology. The company built a persistent backdoor into over 1.