Smart Television Revolt

Smart Television Revolt
This week we saw an LG update force Copilot on their televisions while their new psychological advertising model is embedded. We will look at the problems with smart TVs and some solutions to the problem.

Phishing with Real Bait
Today we look at two companies who had their support system used by scammers to phish for accounts. We will talk about this problem and how to best counter it.

Smart Television Revolt
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsoft-and-lg-are-forcing-copilot-onto-smart-tvs-and-you-cant-even-delete-it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

Phishing with Real Bait
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/12/paypal-closes-loophole-that-let-scammers-send-real-emails-with-fake-purchase-notices

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/real-apple-support-emails-used-new-phishing-scam

Quicklines
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status

https://itsfoss.com/news/no-ai-extension-gnome/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/world-launches-its-super-app-including-crypto-pay-and-encrypted-chat-features/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/12/photo-booth-flaw-exposes-peoples-private-pictures-online

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/study-shows-instacart-may-be-charging-some-shoppers-20-more-for-the-same-product/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/12/google-ads-funnel-mac-users-to-poisoned-ai-chats-that-spread-the-amos-infostealer

https://dataprivacy.foxrothschild.com/2025/12/articles/general-privacy-data-security-news-developments/40-state-ags-warn-against-delusional-llm-outputs/