Why the robocalls about your Google listing won't stop
Put your business on Google and the robocalls never stop? Here's why it happens, why blocking fails, and what actually works.
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An IT Guy on Vacation
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.
Your photos know where you live
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.
How a stranger on the bus found her secret Instagram
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
You can’t say bomb on an airplane
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
Microsoft 365 prices go up July 1.
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,
The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed.
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 five years,
Leaked Email
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
Why MFA annoyance is worth it
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's
What a VPN actually does
A user showed me a VPN ad on her phone last month and asked if she should buy it. The ad had a hooded figure at a coffee shop. Ominous music. A scrolling list of things hackers were apparently doing to her bank account while she ordered a latte. Fifteen
How to spot a phishing email in 2026
Have you ever been phished by your own work? Have you felt betrayed when you clicked a link in an email that looked legit and then your IT department sends you an email assigning you mandatory phishing training? Email phishing has evolved over time, and so has the way to
Patching is the new password
Verizon publishes a Data Breach Investigations Report every spring. It's the closest thing the security industry has to an annual census, built from real incident data submitted by hundreds of organizations and law-enforcement partners. The 2026 edition dropped yesterday, and it announced something that hadn't happened
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A WordPress privacy plugin opened 115,000 sites to takeover
A WordPress plugin called Burst Statistics, installed on about 200,000 sites and marketed as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, has a critical authentication-bypass flaw that lets attackers walk in as the site administrator. Wordfence discovered it on May 8th. A patch shipped May 12. As of about a
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CISA contractor posted admin keys to public GitHub
A contractor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the office of the federal government whose entire job is protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, kept admin credentials for three Amazon GovCloud accounts in a public GitHub repository for six months. GovCloud is Amazon's cloud platform
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Meta dropped Instagram DM encryption. Why?
Five days later, Meta added a new privacy feature to WhatsApp. If your business or organization uses either app for anything you'd rather Meta not read, here's what changed. What changed On May 8, Meta turned off end-to-end encryption (the math that keeps Meta from reading
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What the heck is a Passkey?
If you're like me, you've probably been seeing prompts to set up a passkey for about a year now. And if you're also like me, you may have been hitting "not now" every time you see them. Every few weeks Google asks
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Outlook icon confusion
If you've opened the Start menu on Windows in the last few years and found yourself staring at multiple different Outlook icons, you're not losing your mind. There is a reason the meme above exists. It's confusing. What is the Outlook (new) anyway? Microsoft
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IT twins wipe 96 government databases.
On February 18, 2025, twin brothers Sohaib and Muneeb Akhter were fired during a video call from Opexus, a Washington D.C. tech contractor that hosts data for more than 45 federal agencies. By the time the call ended, 96 federal databases were gone. The window from termination to destruction
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The data center boom reaches Hillsboro, OR.
In Fayette County, Georgia, a data center used over 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Investigators eventually found two industrial hookups that weren't being monitored. One hookup had been installed without the utility's knowledge. This happened while drought conditions had local officials asking
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The Chatbot: What We Actually Know About AI Companions and Mental Health
Headlines about AI chatbots and mental health have largely been about teenagers, but the data points elsewhere. In January, JAMA Network Open published a survey of nearly 21,000 American adults led by Roy Perlis at Massachusetts General Hospital. Daily users of generative AI were more likely to screen positive
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The Disturbing Reality of AI-Powered Plush Toys
Last fall, a $99 plush bear named Kumma told researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group where to find pills and matches and engaged in graphic sexual conversation. The bear is sold on Amazon. It runs on OpenAI's GPT-4o. It's part of the wave Wired
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Google is sending a few clicks back to your website
Google announced five changes to AI Overviews on Tuesday. The most visible one is a new "Further Exploration" section at the bottom of AI-generated answers that links out to articles, case studies, and reports. The other four are smaller: a "Subscribed" label that flags content from
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Four steps to fix your printer (and the rule for when to stop)
People just don't have the need to print as often as they used to. But every once in a while, you end up needing a nice freshly printed document. Usually for something important. You hit the print button and wipe the dust off your old printer waiting for
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Fake face. Real money.
A reporter at 404 Media got on a Microsoft Teams call recently and watched his own face appear on someone else, in real time. The face moved when the other person moved. Lighting changes held. Expressions tracked. The software is designed and sold for impersonation scams, and it works as