Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released.

VPNs are one of the many things missing from Vega OS on the Fire TV Stick 4K Select. That may change soon because IPVanish says VPN functionality is coming later this month to Vega OS.

With the release of the new Fire TV Stick 4K Select, Amazon has introduced a bit of naming confusion into the Fire TV lineup. Adding Select to the name of an existing product suggests that the Select version is superior to the non-Select version.

Beyond the fact that Vega OS on the new Fire TV Stick 4K Select does not support sideloaded apps, the biggest issue with it is that every existing Fire TV app has to be rewritten, since it no longer runs the Android-based Fire OS used by all previous models.

Amazon will be revealing new devices in a few days, and at least one new Fire TV model is expected to be among the announcements. Someone at Amazon appears to have jumped the gun a little bit by updating a line that reveals the memory and storage specs of an unreleased Fire TV model.

Rumors have circulated for years that Amazon plans to replace its Android-based Fire TV operating system, Fire OS, with a new in-house Linux-based system called Vega OS. Despite already using Vega OS on a few Echo devices, Amazon has been silent about moving away from Android on Fire TV devices.

Earlier this year, Google announced that its Gemini generative AI would be replacing the Google Assistant on Google TV devices. That officially starts today with the TCL QM9K series smart TVs. Google says other devices, both TVs and streaming devices, will receive Gemini later this year.

Back in June, Walmart's Onn streaming devices began receiving updates to Android TV 14, which bricked many devices and made them unusable. For people outside of the 1-year warranty period, Walmart refused to replace their Onn streaming device, even though the issue seems to have been caused by Walma...

Earlier this year, Google announced that the next version of its streaming device operating system, Android TV 16, would be the first to support a 64-bit kernel.

There have been a lot of rumors and speculation about Fire TV devices moving away from Fire OS when the next batch of new models is announced. Several reports say new Fire TVs will run Vega OS, Amazon's new Linux-based operating system, but there are also hints that some new Fire TV models will be r...

Sony has started rolling out Android TV 14 to its first batch of Bravia TVs, according to a Reddit user who dug through support pages. It appears as though Sony TVs with Realtek chipsets are being updated first.

Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises, is reporting an 18.6% surge in net profit for the first fiscal quarter on the back of strong demand for its new Switch 2 console

Disney has announced that it will be phasing out the standalone Hulu app next year. The service will be fully integrated into a new unified Disney+ app. While the apps are merging, the services will remain separate, so customers will still be able to subscribe to only Hulu or only Disney+.

If you're a Max subscriber, you may have noticed that your app icon recently changed. That's because Max, formerly HBO Max and formerly HBO Now before that, has changed its name back to HBO Max today.

Android TV 14, the latest version of Google's streaming operating system, has been slowly making its way onto devices since its debut last year on the Google TV Streamer.

Google is cutting the budget of its Android TV and Google TV team by 10%, according to sources who spoke to The Information. The reduction is said to be due to its new focus on Google Gemini and YouTube.

Walmart just released the Onn 4K Plus, which is its latest and most powerful Google TV streaming device. While it is a bit strange to have its mid-range streaming device be more powerful than its flagship Pro model, things might stay that way for a while.

While Walmart pulled the listing for the Onn 4K Plus off its website shortly after it was published last week, several people have found them in stores, so we're starting to learn a bit more about the streaming device.

Roku has announced two new streaming devices to replace its two least expensive models. The new Roku Streaming Stick is a 1080p device for $29.99 that replaces the outgoing Roku Express and the Roku Streaming Stick Plus is a 4K version for $39.99 that replaces the Roku Express 4K+.

Amazon has been rumored to be working on a Fire TV model running its in-house Vega OS operating system, instead of its usual Android-based Fire OS, for some time.