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The camera app zooms. The magnifier holds the image still, turns up the contrast, and on an iPhone it will even read the small print out loud.
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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.
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Four stories from the week I did not write a full piece about, and a sentence or two on why each one matters to you.
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A call says your electricity goes off within the hour unless you pay right now. Real shutoffs move by mail, and during dangerous heat the shutoff itself can be against the law.
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Most of the 2.2 million affected cars were sold at Southern California dealerships, but resale carried several hundred thousand of them everywhere else. Two minutes tells you whether yours is one.
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The hours lost to embarrassment are what turn a bad afternoon into a drained account. Here is the order to work in, and what is actually recoverable.
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Google's new selfie sign-in is optional, stored on Google's servers, and easier to turn on than to undo. Five minutes on your recovery settings does more for you.
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Your phone can send robocalls straight to voicemail, or make them say who they are first. Here is the five-minute setup on iPhone, Android, and Samsung.
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It photographs every car that passes, including yours. The argument your city council is having is about who gets to search the record.
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It photographs every car that passes, including yours. The argument your city council is having is about who gets to search the record.
Four tech stories from this week that matter to everyday people, each in a sentence or two, with a link to whoever reported it well.
Scam sites and a fake movie file appeared within hours of release. Two rules protect you, and neither needs technical skill.
The habits that make AI genuinely useful, written for regular people, not AI people. What to set up, what to watch out for, and why it works.
The full platform-by-platform companion to our deepfake explainer: where the real removal paths are, what each report form actually covers, and what to save before you file anything.
Also in this issue: what data brokers actually sell, the password habit worth one evening, and a five-minute trick for copying text out of a photo.
A researcher pulled a live camera feed, a floor plan, and a Wi-Fi password off a Shark robot vacuum he didn't own. Shark hasn't fixed it. Here's what every robot vacuum collects, and what you can do about it.
Samsung Messages stopped working July 6 on newer Galaxy phones. Nothing is broken, your old texts are not gone, and the switch takes about ten minutes.
Half an hour in January, and a printed book of your whole year shows up at your door. I started because I lost a decade of pictures.
Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.
A New Orleans doctor spent months trying to get fake AI ads of himself taken down. What worked, what didn't, and why the settings you've heard about wouldn't have helped.
The two-minute trick that ends retyping wifi passwords, codes, and recipes off a screen.
