Your TV is Emotionally Targeting You
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, LG TVs go full dystopian, AI builds their own malware, and EU bans AI Agents in meetings. Also, Synology embraces DRM and we visit SillyVille.

Privacy
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-has-a-plan-for-improving-apple-intelligence-but-it-needs-your-help-and-your-data

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/florida-draft-law-mandating-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-billed-dangerous-and-dumb/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions/
https://www.adweek.com/adweek-wire/zenapse-raises-8-million-to-expand-ai-large-emotion-model-lem-saas-platform/

Security
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/i-sent-you-an-email-from-your-email-account-sextortion-scam-claims

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-hallucinations-slopsquatting/

AI Overlords
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/grok-will-start-remembering-everything-you-ask-it-to-do

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/uncategorized/2025/04/meta-slurps-up-eu-user-data-for-ai-training

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-bans-ai-assistants-virtual-meetings/

Business
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-used-ai-to-block-three-times-more-fraudulent-advertisers-in-2024/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3674nl7g74o

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nas/synology-requires-self-branded-drives-for-some-consumer-nas-systems-drops-full-functionality-and-support-for-third-party-hdds

Silly
https://notthebee.com/article/penguin-crashes-helicopter/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-signs-a-major-new-carbon-removal-deal-that-might-be-powered-by-paper

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-major-google-cloud-outage-was-caused-by-uninterruptible-power-supplies-being-interrupted

https://notthebee.com/article/the-irs-scheduled-maintenance-of-their-payment-system-on-tax-day-and-i-didnt-think-that-level-of-evil-existed/