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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.
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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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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.
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Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.
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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.
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The two-minute trick that ends retyping wifi passwords, codes, and recipes off a screen.
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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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Companies you've never dealt with sell lists of who's pregnant, who has Alzheimer's, and who might fall for a scam. Starting August 1, Californians can make them delete it. There are steps for the rest of us, too.
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One password used everywhere is one key to every lock. A password manager fixes that, and starting is easier than you think.
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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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Password resets for everything else land in your inbox, which makes your email account the master key. The recovery phone and backup email on that account are how you get back in, and most of us set them years ago.
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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.