Two keys, drag a box, and the picture is on your clipboard. That part hasn't changed. What's new is everything sitting behind the buttons across the top, and most people have never pressed any of them...

Your TV can recognize what is on its own screen, including whatever comes in over HDMI. What the setting is called on each brand, and where to find it.

A Windows pop-up is wrong about your antivirus. The FTC says Amazon padded its ad prices. Nineteen browser add-ons turned on their users. Android 17 shuts a door scammers use.

The FTC fined Cox Media Group and two partners $930,000 over Active Listening, a service they said could pick up conversations from phones, TVs and smart speakers. It never collected a second of audio...

Troy Hunt's first pass over the Carhartt dump found 24.9 million email addresses. After the test data and duplicates came out, 12.9 million were left.

Ring's coming default destroys its copy of your video keys after 24 hours. What police can still get, where the protection stops, and the setting to check.

Loneliness gets compared to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. The researcher behind that number keeps a page on her own website correcting how people quote it. Here is where it came from, who is lonel...

A free Google tool monitors Search for your address, phone number and ID numbers. Here is what it takes down and the two limits that catch people.

A newly uncovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called AnonyMousKIT automates the retrieval of codes used to unlock stolen Apple devices and disable the Activation Lock feature.

The FTC says it cannot ban personalized pricing outright. Here is what is documented, what is not, and which of the usual tips do anything.

If you paid for YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream since 2019 you are part of a $50 million settlement. Plus Amazon's new device prices, Meta's $17 billion teen settlement, and a gas alarm that can stay sil...

Five different problems feel identical from the couch. Tell them apart with the phone you already own.

Memory, storage, the processor and the screen decide whether a laptop lasts. Here is how to read the four that matter and ignore the rest.

Take-Two is pulling the CyberLeek clips as fast as they go up. The "archives" filling the gap are malware, and the pattern is older than this game.

Podcasts are looking for people in finance, maternity workers, Miami-based entrepreneurs, NY-based leaders, community leaders, pet indusry leaders, and more.

How to find out what is inside the watch on your child's wrist, and what to change on the account today.

USPS will email you a photo of the letters coming to your house that day, for free. Most eligible addresses have never turned it on.

The AI opt-out settings on Substack, LinkedIn, Meta and your own site are real, but they only work going forward and only bind companies that honor them.

Apple warned the people it thinks are spyware targets and shipped an update the rest of us should install, the Comcast breach claim deadline moved to September 14, ChatGPT started sorting its own user...

A second kind of safety notice has grown to a fifth of the total, and it comes with no refund. Here is what to check before you buy a charger, a power strip, or a power bank.

Cancel the subscription and the cartridge stops working, ink and all. HP writes it down, and so do Brother, Canon and Epson. What the contracts say, and how to leave without a dead printer.

Claims close August 27. The $56 is a ceiling built on an assumed 1 to 2 percent claims rate.

macOS already runs three layers of protection for free. What XProtect and Gatekeeper cover, the one rule that does more than any scanner, and who should still install something.

Free audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines on the phone already in your pocket. No card? You can probably fix that today without leaving home.

AirPods Pro carry an FDA-authorized over-the-counter hearing aid for mild to moderate hearing loss, plus a free hearing test. What it does, what it does not do, and what Medicare covers.

The Google Drive photo backup that ended Monday, an FTC refund going out to 640,038 people, new limits on license plate cameras, and a Camry recall.

Windows Defender is free, already on, and tests level with paid antivirus for most people. What the labs found, who should still pay, and how to cancel McAfee or get a Norton renewal refunded.

New research says malware can reach Google's synced passkeys on Windows. Here is what has to go wrong first, and why a clean computer is the whole defense.

Five small things your phone and computer have always done. I learned most of them late, and I use every one of them almost daily.

Exact Sciences, the Abbott company behind the at-home Cologuard colon cancer test, was breached and 10.9 million email addresses are public. What to do before the notification letter arrives.

You agreed with one person. A company is in it too, and what that company keeps depends on which app you picked.

Five small things your phone and computer have always done. I learned most of them late, and I use every one of them almost daily.

Your clinic will tell you the tool is HIPAA compliant. That doesn't actually mean much. Four questions to ask before you agree, and what to do if you would rather not.

Four stories from the week: leaky ad code, an AI shopper's day in court, California's new AI labels, and the end of Google Assistant on your phone.

AI data centers are buying up the memory chips that go into every phone, laptop, and game console. The bill has reached store shelves. The cheapest devices are taking the biggest hit. Here is a real a...

Every adult knows how to behave on a work laptop. Your child was handed one at school and nobody explained the distinction. Here is what the school district can see, and what to check before you sign ...

An AI broke out of a sealed test environment and hacked a real company to cheat on its own exam. Here is what an agent actually is, and how to try one without getting burned.

Companies you've never dealt with sell lists of who's pregnant, who has Alzheimer's, and who might fall for a scam. Starting August 1, Californians can make them delete it. There are steps for the res...