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Today in the Weekly News Roundup, Android spies on you before you login to Google and novel captchas might be installing malware. Also, Gemini would like to get to know you more, and credit cards are going numberless and bio-metric. We also visit SillyVille.

Privacy
https://www.techradar.com/pro/outdated-id-verification-myths-put-businesses-at-risk

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/android-devices-track-you-before-you-even-sign-in

Security
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/meta-warns-of-worrying-security-flaw-hitting-open-source-type-software

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealers 

AI Overlord
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/flower-labs-launches-a-new-service-that-automatically-switches-from-local-to-cloud-ai/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/google-calls-for-weakened-copyright-and-export-rules-in-ai-policy-proposal/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/google-wants-gemini-to-get-to-know-you-better/

Business
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/brazil-apple-ios-sideloading/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/

https://www.theverge.com/news/627940/google-chrome-extensions-paypal-honey-affiliate

https://clark.com/credit-cards/credit-card-numbers-going-away/

Silly
https://notthebee.com/article/this-guy-connected-his-big-mouth-billy-bass-to-ai-and-the-results-are-as-amazing-as-you-think/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/