The Fish Tank That Sells Your IP: How Smart TVs Became the Residential Proxy Industry's Favourite Host

Spur's scan of 6,038 smart TV apps across LG's webOS and Samsung's Tizen found 2,058 of them shipping residential proxy SDKs. On LG, that's 42% of the entire app ecosystem. On Samsung, 26%. These are not malware infections — they are legitimate apps, many of them published by the proxy companies themselves, that turn your television into an exit node for other people's internet traffic. A clock. A fish tank. A game of solitaire. On screen, it's calm. Under the hood, your home IP address is relaying traffic for…

Tech Briefing — Wednesday, June 24 2026

SpaceX's neocloud ambitions hit $28B run-rate as Reflection AI signs a $6.3B compute deal, GLM-5.2 emerges as the first open-weight model treated as frontier-adjacent, and Europe swelters under a record heatwave while UK police expand facial recognition across London.

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• 🏢 Industry Moves 4
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• 🌐 Notable 3

Bureaucratic Absurdism

Today's bureaucratic-absurdist field was thin: only one candidate delivered the requested single cohesive block, and even it couldn't resist a parting flourish. The cafeteria-seating footnote — the prompt's comedic load-bearing pillar — was executed competently across the board, suggesting the genre-specific instruction landed even when format instructions didn't.