Hacker News with Generative AI: Roku

"Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen (arstechnica.com)
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen. Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch (boingboing.net)
Dear Roku, you ruined my TV (theverge.com)
Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
Roku says hackers gained access to 576k accounts in latest data-breach incident (wsj.com)