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A colon cancer test company got breached. If you took Cologuard, expect a phone call.

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.

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Also this week: your location, an AI shopper in court, and California's AI labels

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.

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Also this week: iPhone leases, a movable taskbar, and a deepfake law in court

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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Millions of cars carry a Southern California dealer alarm with a security flaw

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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Google wants a video of your face. Skip it for now.

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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Also this week: rival app stores, Siri's public beta, and rising phone prices

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.

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The Odyssey hit theaters Friday. The scams were ready by Monday.

Scam sites and a fake movie file appeared within hours of release. Two rules protect you, and neither needs technical skill.

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Samsung killed its texting app, but your texts are fine.

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.

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That sketchy letter from your hospital might be real

Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.

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The Meta AI panic is over, but turn off this lingering setting.

Meta pulled the feature that let anyone make AI images from your public Instagram photos. The setting that fed it is still on by default. Here is how to turn it off.

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Windows 11 has a disk-eating bug. Tuesday's update fixes it.

A hidden Windows 11 file has been swallowing disk space, up to 500GB in the worst cases, and Windows gives you no way to see it happening. The repair arrives automatically July 14. Two minutes in Settings tells you if you're affected.

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Starlink is about to get competition

Amazon says its satellite internet service turns on later this year. Here is what it is, how it differs from the satellite internet you may remember, and how to think about it if your internet provider options are bad.