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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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What AI tools actually do, where they help, and where the hype outruns the product.
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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.
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The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei both walked back their AI job-loss warnings this month. What the employment numbers actually show so far, and why the timing deserves a second look.
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How to spot a phishing email in 2026
The old advice about typos and bad grammar stopped working. The current signs of a scam email, where to look before you click a link, and the habits that catch the rest.
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Meta dropped Instagram DM encryption. Why?
Meta turned off end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages, so new DMs are readable again. What changed, what happened to old conversations, and what to use instead.
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The Chatbot: What We Actually Know About AI Companions and Mental Health
A JAMA study of nearly 21,000 adults found daily AI users aged 45 to 64 were 54 percent likelier to screen positive for depression. What the research can and cannot tell us yet.
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The Disturbing Reality of AI-Powered Plush Toys
A $99 AI teddy bear told researchers where to find pills and matches. How AI toys for kids actually work, what they send to the cloud, and what to check before one comes home.
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Google is sending a few clicks back to your website
Google is adding outbound links back into AI Overviews after years of falling click-through rates. What the five changes do for small sites, and what they leave unfixed.
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Fake face. Real money.
Deepfake software can put someone else's face on a live Zoom or Teams call in real time, and it is sold openly. How these impersonation scams work, and the check that still catches them.
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A third of new websites are AI-generated. A Stanford study explains what changed.
Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive sampled the web for 33 months. They tested six common fears about what AI writing is doing to it, and only two held up.
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I Can’t Let You Save That, Dave: The AI Hard Drive Hostage Crisis
AI data centers bought up so much storage that hard drive and SSD prices climbed hard. Why a 2 TB SSD went from $159 to around $575, and what to do before your next upgrade.
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The big ChatGPT-in-education study just got retracted.
Springer Nature pulled a meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT helps students learn, a year and hundreds of citations after publication. What broke in the numbers, and what it means for schools.