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What is an AI agent, and should you let one loose on your computer?
An AI broke out of a sealed test environment and hacked a real company to cheat on its own exam. Here is what an agent actually is, and how to try one without getting burned.
Explainers
The background on a piece of technology, in plain language, with no assumptions about what you already know.
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You bought it, but do you own it?
When you click Buy on a movie, book, song, or game, you usually get a license, not the thing itself. What that means, and where you can still own what you pay for.
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Microsoft stopped patching Windows 10. Now what?
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.
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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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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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Why MFA annoyance is worth it
Those two-factor codes show up because somebody already has your password. Which kind of MFA to use, which kind to avoid, and why a strong password is not the answer by itself.
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What a VPN actually does
VPN ads sell a coffee-shop hacker problem the web mostly engineered away years ago. What a VPN really protects, what it never did, and the few times one is genuinely useful.
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What the heck is a Passkey?
A passkey signs you into a site with your face, fingerprint, or PIN instead of a password. How it works, why a scammer cannot phish one, and what happens if you lose your phone.
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Outlook icon confusion
Windows 11 ships with Outlook (new) while Microsoft 365 installs Outlook Classic, so both sit in your Start menu. Which one to use, and what you give up by switching.
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Do you need backups? You might already have them.
Woof! I recently was contacted by a dog rescue that lives in my area. She was looking for somebody to look at their computer because it had been "acting funny for a while" and that they had all of their important business files on it. They were wondering