Repeal churches tax exempt status and most of those megachurches will implode practically overnight. Remove their ability to effectively grift and most of them will move on to a more profitable scam and the ones that are left will be far less dangerous with less money to throw around for bribes.

Article provides 0 real details outside of saying they identified a certain number of sites. The only name they provide is highly suspect as they only explicitly name Cloudflare and that was only as an infrastructure provider for these sites which considering the nature of Cloudflare and how many sites they support is about as revealing as saying that they can be found using Google. Not a single AI provider or even model is actually called out.

Yes, but actually no. They almost certainly use cheap glob top ICs for their firmware and I’d be surprised if they can be reflashed at all. You might be able to figure out how to push your own updates to them but you’ll likely be restricted to displaying a limited format. It’s really going to depend on the specific model though and how open ended the manufacturer made them.