Facebook Engages in Piracy
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, Google launches client-side scanning, and they want to change your passwords. Also, Facebook torrents books to train Llama, and reCaptcha could be a way to collect and sell your personal data. We also visit SillyVille.

Privacy
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/apple-ordered-to-grant-access-to-users-encrypted-data

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-nudes-3499420/

Security
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/phishing-evolves-beyond-email-to-become-latest-android-app-threat

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/google-chrome-may-soon-use-ai-to-detect-leaked-passwords-and-replace-them/

Data Leaks
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/massive-online-data-breach-sees-2-7-billion-records-leaked-heres-what-we-know

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/20-million-openai-accounts-offered-for-sale

AI Overlords
https://www.techradar.com/pro/meta-purportedly-trained-its-ai-on-more-than-80tb-of-pirated-content-and-then-open-sourced-llama-for-the-greater-good

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/13/former-google-ceo-warns-ai-could-be-used-by-rogue-states-to-harm-people

Business
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/t-mobile-expands-starlink-texting-service-to-cover-verizon-and-att-users/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/report-iphone-se-could-shed-its-10-year-old-design-as-early-as-next-week/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-report-claims-recaptcha-has-caused-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-in-google-profits

Silly
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/buzzfeed-is-taking-on-instagram-tiktok-x-with-a-new-social-platform-designed-to-spread-joy/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/elizabeth-holmes-says-from-prison-shes-committed-to-making-healthcare-solutions-available-to-everyone/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/las-vegas-just-got-a-netflix-restaurant/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/not-even-emoji-are-safe-from-hackers-smiley-faces-can-be-hacked-to-hide-data-study-claims

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/sri_lanka_monkey_blackout/