What changed in technology this week, and what it means for you.
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A Windows pop-up is wrong about your antivirus. The FTC says Amazon padded its ad prices. Nineteen browser add-ons turned on their users. Android 17 shuts a door scammers use.
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Ring's next encryption default destroys its copy of your video keys after 24 hours. That closes a door Ring left open for years. It stops at the moment an owner shares a clip.
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Amazon raised the list price on its own devices. Meta settled the teen social media case for $17 billion. Disney owes streaming subscribers a check by September 8. And a gas alarm sold under 18 names on Amazon can stay silent.
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Take-Two is pulling the CyberLeek clips as fast as they go up. The "archives" filling the gap are malware, and the pattern is older than this game.
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Apple warned the people it thinks are spyware targets and shipped an update the rest of us should install, the Comcast breach claim deadline moved to September 14, ChatGPT started sorting its own users by age, and four states put Meta on trial in Oakland.
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The $18 to $56 estimate assumes almost nobody files. What the claim form actually asks for, which class needs a receipt, and why your Nest speaker is fine.
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Google Drive stopped pushing your pictures into Google Photos on Monday, the FTC is sending $23.8 million in Grubhub refunds, Flock is tightening the rules on its license plate cameras, and Toyota is recalling half a million Camrys over a dashboard that goes blank.
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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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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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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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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'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.