Big Bezos is Watching
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, Amazon wants to get telescreens into everyone's home, and Valve wants to ban advertisements in games. We look at several news articles in tech and privacy.

Privacy
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/countries-and-companies-are-fighting-at-the-expense-of-our-data-privacy

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/android-happy-to-check-your-nudes-before-you-forward-them

https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/amazons-goal-is-to-put-an-echo-screen-in-everyones-house

Security
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/predatory-app-downloaded-100000-times-from-google-play-store-steals-data-uses-it-for-blackmail

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/google-plans-to-stop-using-insecure-sms-verification-in-gmail/

AI Overlords
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/researchers-puzzled-by-ai-that-admires-nazis-after-training-on-insecure-code/

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/two-ai-chatbots-speaking-to-each-other-in-their-own-special-language-is-the-last-thing-we-need

Business
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/roblox-called-real-life-nightmare-for-children-as-roblox-and-discord-sued

https://www.techpowerup.com/332820/msi-unveils-new-modern-md272upsw-smart-monitor

https://www.thegamer.com/steam-valve-bans-games-with-ad-breaks/

Silly
https://securityaffairs.com/174579/intelligence/china-firm-topsec-provides-censorship-services.html

https://notthebee.com/article/apple-fixing-iphone-dictation-glitch-that-hears-trump-when-user-says-racist/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/pixel-watch-3-gets-fda-approval-to-alert-you-if-youre-dying/