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Tech news and explainers, translated. Written by an IT pro from Portland, Oregon.

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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 17/08/2026
What took me from dreading my commute to only passively despising it? Audiobooks! I can’t get enough of them. The price can really add up though. So that’s where this week’s 5-min tech tip comes in! Your library card unlocks lots of digital goodies. E-books, magazines, and even audiobooks!
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 06/08/2026
Your phone says storage is almost full. The usual advice is to delete some photos. That can be risky. On some phones, deleting a photo deletes it from the cloud too. On others, it was the only copy. The fix, start to finish. www.freshfromcache.com/why-is-my-ph...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 03/08/2026
Your router has a date after which nobody patches it. Manufacturers are not required to tell you when, and most never announce it. They just stop. The FBI has named home models already being broken into for this reason: www.freshfromcache.com/router-expir...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 02/08/2026
Your phone has a magnifying glass built in, separate from the camera zoom. It freezes the image, turns up the contrast, and on an iPhone it reads the label out loud. It has been in the Accessibility settings all along. www.freshfromcache.com/your-phone-i...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 31/07/2026
Apple will lease you an iPhone now. 17.99 a month, lower than the upgrade program it replaces. But there is a catch in the fine print you want to know about before you sign. Three more stories in this week's roundup: www.freshfromcache.com/also-this-we...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 30/07/2026
That call threatening to shut off your power in 30 minutes is a scam. Real utilities give weeks of written notice, and during heat waves, Oregon and Washington law does not allow the shutoff. What the scam sounds like and what to do instead: www.freshfromcache.com/power-shutof...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 29/07/2026
Two million cars have a Bluetooth alarm wired in that all answer to the same key. Most of the owners never bought it, and turning down the service did not take the hardware out. Two minutes tells you whether yours is one of them. www.freshfromcache.com/the-car-alar...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 28/07/2026
New post: a page for the first hour after you realize you have been scammed. It is written to be followed by someone who is panicking, so it is short on explanation and long on what to do next. Save it now, while nothing is wrong. www.freshfromcache.com/what-to-do-a...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 27/07/2026
Google now lets you store a video of your face to get back into your account. Your iPhone does this too, but Face ID never leaves the phone. Google's copy sits on Google's servers. I'd skip it. www.freshfromcache.com/google-wants...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 26/07/2026
Your phone can answer unknown numbers for you, ask who is calling and why, and only ring if a real person answers. Robocallers just hang up. Built into iPhone and Android, off by default, about five minutes: www.freshfromcache.com/stop-spam-ca...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 25/07/2026
The camera on the pole is not a speed camera. It photographs every car that passes and logs the plate, time, and place into a searchable database. Here is what it records, who can search it, and how to check your own town. www.freshfromcache.com/what-is-a-fl...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 24/07/2026
Your phone can answer unknown numbers for you, ask who is calling and why, and only ring if a real person answers. Robocallers just hang up. Built into iPhone and Android, off by default, about five minutes: www.freshfromcache.com/also-this-we...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 23/07/2026
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 22/07/2026
Imagine scrolling into a video of yourself selling something you'd never endorse. Which report button works? The follow-up to last week's deepfake post: a platform-by-platform takedown playbook. Bookmark it before you need it. www.freshfromcache.com/how-to-get-a...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 21/07/2026
In May 2024 three families found a hacker driving their robot vacuum, watching through its camera, shouting slurs through its speaker. This month it's Shark. Camera feeds, home maps, Wi-Fi passwords. Still unfixed. www.freshfromcache.com/robot-vacuum...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 21/07/2026
Samsung shut down its texting app on July 6. If texting broke on your Galaxy, you're not hacked, and your old texts aren't gone. Scammers are already sending fake "switch now" links. The real fix takes ten minutes and never arrives as a text: www.freshfromcache.com/samsung-shut...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 20/07/2026
I lost ten years of photos to dead phones and dead websites. Now every January I spend half an hour turning last year into a printed book. 102 pages, $62, zero scrapbooking skills required. Here's how it works: www.freshfromcache.com/yearly-photo...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 19/07/2026
Rochester patients got breach letters from a company they'd never heard of, naming a hospital that doesn't exist. Most tossed them. They were real. How to check a sketchy letter without trusting anything printed on it: www.freshfromcache.com/that-sketchy...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 18/07/2026
A New Orleans doctor found an AI video of himself selling vitamins he'd never touched. He reported it and got silence. Turns out the report buttons are built for fake accounts, not your real face in someone else's ad. A few things do work, though. www.freshfromcache.com/ai-deepfake-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 17/07/2026
A free 2-minute digital health check: answer ten quick questions, get a score and the few things worth fixing first. It comes with a Fresh From Cache subscription. See where you stand: www.freshfromcache.com/subscribe/
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 16/07/2026
Meta pulled the feature that let anyone turn your public Instagram photos into AI images of you. Three days and it was gone. But it left the setting that fed it switched on by default, and it's on you to find it. Here's the exact setting: www.freshfromcache.com/meta-instagr...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 15/07/2026
Companies you've never heard of sell guesses about you. Who has Alzheimer's. Who answers sweepstakes mail. Who's behind on bills. Starting August 1, California can force almost 600 of them to delete it all. Three free moves for the rest of us: www.freshfromcache.com/what-is-a-da...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 14/07/2026
One forgotten website gets breached, and your reused password gets tried on your bank and email. One password everywhere is one key to every lock. How to start with a password manager, and which one to actually pick: www.freshfromcache.com/start-using-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 13/07/2026
Microsoft confirmed a Windows 11 bug that lets one hidden file eat disk space. Some people lost 200GB. One lost over 500GB. Cleaner apps can't touch it. The repair lands with Tuesday's update. The two-minute check: www.freshfromcache.com/windows-11-d...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 12/07/2026
Locked out of your email, there is no person to call. The recovery phone and backup address on file are the way back in, and most of us set them years ago. Five minutes to check while you are still signed in. www.freshfromcache.com/email-recove... Subscribe for a new tip every week!
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 11/07/2026
Amazon says its Starlink competitor turns on this year. No price, no signup date, and its own FCC paperwork says service starts at 578 satellites. It has 396. So is it real, and should you wait? www.freshfromcache.com/starlink-is-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 10/07/2026
A new study tested 86 "child safety" features across TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. Most didn't work as advertised. Here's which settings to actually trust, and which are just for show: www.freshfromcache.com/teen-safety-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 09/07/2026
Sony just deleted 551 movies people had already paid for. No refund. Turns out that Buy button isn't what you think it is: www.freshfromcache.com/do-you-own-w...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 08/07/2026
Computer feeling slow? I wrote a free guide that walks you through finding what's really behind it, and fixing it yourself before you pay anyone. Subscribe free and it's yours. So is the newsletter, every Tuesday. www.freshfromcache.com/subscribe/
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 08/07/2026
A man spent months telling ChatGPT his mother was against him. It agreed, over and over. In August he killed her, then himself. His family is now suing OpenAI. When a chatbot plays a part in a death, who answers for it? www.freshfromcache.com/ai-accountab...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 06/07/2026
Google's about to require every Android app to come from a verified developer. Some people are already in a panic. It's overblown, it starts in four countries this year and the US isn't first. The real question is why Google's doing it, and who it hurts. www.freshfromcache.com/google-andro...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 05/07/2026
We've all done it. The internet gets flaky, so you walk over to the router, pull the plug, count to ten, and plug it back in. A minute later, everything works again. Why does that work? What should you do if it doesn't? www.freshfromcache.com/why-does-reb...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 04/07/2026
This week's 5-minute tech tip: Your browser has real tracker-blocking and scam-site warnings built in, and on Chrome and Edge the strongest ones are off by default. Five minutes to turn them on, no VPN needed. www.freshfromcache.com/chrome-edge-... Subscribe and get one every Tuesday.
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 03/07/2026
Going out to watch fireworks this weekend? If your firework photos always come out blurry or washed out, here are five simple tricks that fix it with just your phone. www.freshfromcache.com/capture-fire...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 03/07/2026
The apps I use most aren't the ones I'd recommend to anyone. Mine are mostly work. So I built the list I'd give a normal person, plus the ones worth deleting. The app promising to protect your phone is usually the problem. www.freshfromcache.com/suggested-ap...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 02/07/2026
What's the one app you can't live without? I'm putting together a short list of apps worth a spot on a normal person's phone. The finished list goes up on Fresh From Cache soon. Your pick might make the cut!
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 02/07/2026
WhatsApp is finally letting you hide your phone number. After 17 years of it being your identity on the app, you can now put a username in front of it. What it actually protects, and what it doesn't: www.freshfromcache.com/whatsapp-use...
News card stating "You can finally hide your phone number on WhatsApp. Read more below.
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 30/06/2026
Installed a free VPN or ad blocker and forgot about it? Microsoft just pulled 119 extensions that worked for years, then started stealing passwords and login codes. Official store, real reviews. Five-minute cleanup: www.freshfromcache.com/microsoft-pu...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 24/06/2026
Hi everybody! I'm Joel. I started a technology newsletter for people who aren't necessarily tech savvy. I'd be thrilled if you'd give me a subscribe! It's once a week, free, no ads, no catch. Thank you future subscriber. 😁 www.freshfromcache.com/subscribe
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 21/06/2026
A fake "verify you're human" box is going around that installs malware you run yourself. It tells you to press a few keys instead of clicking pictures. The rule that beats it: a real CAPTCHA never asks you to press keys or paste anything. www.freshfromcache.com/fake-captcha...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 20/06/2026
Your Wi-Fi router can sense someone walking across the room. No camera, no microphone, and it works even with your phone off. Comcast already sells it. Here's what it can actually see, and the one setting to check: www.freshfromcache.com/wifi-motion-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 19/06/2026
Can an AI figure out where you live from just one photo? I tested it, and it worked. A man in Japan tracked down a pop singer and attacked her using only the reflection in her eyes from a photo she'd posted. He did it by hand. AI makes that even easier now. www.freshfromcache.com/your-photos-...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 19/06/2026
Your car grades how you drive, and automakers sold that record to the brokers insurance companies use to set your rate. Sometimes for 26 cents a car. People got denied over a file they never saw. See yours and opt out: www.freshfromcache.com/your-car-gra...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 18/06/2026
If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, could anyone get into your photos and email? For almost everyone, no. Apple and Google both built a way to hand the keys to someone you trust, and almost nobody has turned it on. Five minutes each: www.freshfromcache.com/who-gets-you...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 17/06/2026
Will you give your ID to keep social media? www.freshfromcache.com/prove-your-a...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 17/06/2026
The UK is about to bar kids under 16 from social media. Enforcing it means every adult proves their age too, and the only way to check someone's age ends with your face or your ID on a server. What it costs the rest of us: www.freshfromcache.com/prove-your-a...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 16/06/2026
London's phone thefts fell after Apple made stolen iPhones worthless to resell. A passcode thief still can't wipe the phone without your face or fingerprint. The setting's already on your iPhone, ~2 min to turn on: www.freshfromcache.com/stolen-iphon...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 16/06/2026
#cybersecurity That verification code you didn't ask for? It's not random. It means someone tried one of your old passwords on your account, and the code step is what kept them out. Here's why MFA is worth the small hassle. Full explainer: www.freshfromcache.com/why-mfa-anno...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 15/06/2026
The self-driving car you were promised is real. You just can't buy it. I researched where self driving cars are at in 2026, and why the holdup isn't the tech. Have you ridden in a Waymo? Curious what your first time experience was like. www.freshfromcache.com/self-driving...
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Fresh From Cache @freshfromcache.com · 14/06/2026
The VPN ad with the hooded hacker sells a problem that mostly vanished years ago. A VPN is just a private tunnel. Good for hiding which sites you visit from your provider. It won't make you anonymous or stop a scam. www.freshfromcache.com/what-a-vpn-a...
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