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The UK wants to keep teens off social media. Enforcing that means everyone else proves their age first, and the only way to check a stranger's age ends with your face or your ID on a server. How it works, and what it costs the rest of us.
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London's phone thefts dropped after Apple made stolen iPhones worthless to resell.
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Robotaxis with nobody at the wheel are real, scaling, and stuck inside a handful of cities. The 'self-driving' car you can actually buy still needs you. Where autonomous driving really stands in 2026, and why the holdup isn't the technology.
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An entire industry shuffled its 2026 calendar to get out of one game's way. Why GTA VI's November 19 launch is a real cultural-economic event, and which viral numbers to ignore.
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The second most active ransomware crew on earth runs like a franchise: 90% commission for the contractors, and a boss who lists "head of B2B marketing" as his day job.
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Intuit is winding down QuickBooks Desktop one version at a time. I priced out your three real options before you're forced to pick one.
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Microsoft raised the price of its home Office plans for Copilot. There's a cheaper version without it, at the old price. Here's how to find it.
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Your Windows 10 PC didn't break. Microsoft just stopped sending it free security updates. Six plain-English ways to handle it, with real costs and steps.
Free apps on smart TVs can turn your set into a relay for someone else's web scraping. Using your connection and your IP. Here's how to tell, and how to stop it.
Thousands of fake FIFA sites are already live before the June 11 kickoff. Here's how the World Cup scam machine works, and the simple habits that keep you out of it.
Put your business on Google and the robocalls never stop? Here's why it happens, why blocking fails, and what actually works.
I went on vacation to shut my brain off. Naturally, I spent it finding the Wi-Fi access points hidden in a cruise ship's walls.
I handed an AI a photo with nothing in it, a blank wall and a few trees, no signs. It named the state. Then I gave it a window view with the location scrubbed out, and minutes later it had the exact building and floor.
Last week a Reddit user described a small, deeply unsettling moment. A stranger sat near her on a bus, the two exchanged a glance, and by that evening the stranger had followed her on Instagram. Not the main account she posts from, but the burner: no real name, no profile
Somewhere over the Atlantic last Saturday night, a plane full of people learned that a teenager's taste in speaker names can cost you your whole evening. United Flight 236 left Newark for Palma de Mallorca, Spain, around 6 pm on May 30. About two hours in, off the
If you run your business or your nonprofit on Microsoft 365, your bill is about to climb. On July 1, Microsoft raises list prices on most of its commercial plans. Business Basic goes from $6 to $7 per user each month. Business Standard, the plan most small offices actually run,
A year ago, the two biggest names in AI told us our jobs were in trouble. OpenAI's Sam Altman warned that entire categories of work would vanish. Anthropic's Dario Amodei even put a number on it: roughly half of entry-level white-collar jobs gone within
Your email address is in a leak. Probably more than one. So is mine. That sounds dramatic. The actual implication is not so much. At some point you signed up for an account at LinkedIn or Dropbox or some forum you've forgotten the name of, the company got
MFA. Few terms make users so annoyed. I'm sure you've seen the pop-ups practically begging you to set up MFA. Your work probably forced an authenticator app or two for you to use every time you want to sign into a work tool. It'