Kim Komando

A new dark web price index shows crooks buy your Social Security number for less than a cup of coffee. Your medical record costs more. Here’s the menu and how to get off it.

Your tires got smart while you weren’t looking. Some can seal a nail hole on the spot. Others tell your car the road is slick. And one has no air in it at all. Here’s what you can buy today and what’s next.

A scammer gets your phone number. What happens next? They can dig up your personal details and even take over your accounts. Here’s how to fight back.

To repair or not to repair, the age old question. ChatGPT can now build interactive calculators with sliders, so you can figure in energy costs, how many years the fridge has left and the odds it breaks again before you decide.

Most Prime members use free shipping and watch a movie now and then. Meanwhile, free food delivery, gas discounts, unlimited photo storage, free books and cheap prescriptions sit untouched. Here’s how to claim them tonight.

Campaigns have spent $80 million on AI-generated ads that put words in mouths and stage scenes that never happened. Most carry no AI label. Here’s how to spot a fake in seconds.

Zero clicks from you. Invisible text tells your AI assistant to ship your private files to a stranger, and it happily obeys. Researchers pulled this off against Microsoft’s Copilot.

Think VPNs are only for airports and coffee shops? Your internet provider sees more from your living room than any hacker at Starbucks. Here’s what it can see and how to close the blinds.

The diagram you scribbled on an envelope during a phone call can be clean and client-ready before the other person finishes their follow-up email. Kim hands you the exact prompt to convert a photographed sketch into a professional flowchart.

The ChatGPT iPhone app can photograph a stack of pages and combine them into one PDF without leaving the chat. Here’s the 60-second setup, the prompt that pulls out the fine print trap, and the privacy catch before you scan anything important.

I thought robot fights were wild already, then someone gave humanoid robots blades.

One shopper found Amazon had decided she “has flat buttocks.” Here’s where Amazon, Google and Facebook hide what they think you are, and how to fix it.

One Amazon shopper bought a pair of butt-scrunch leggings. Amazon’s takeaway: She “has flat buttocks.” She found that little gem in a hidden corner of her account and posted it on Threads. More than 1 million people saw it in less than a day. (I laughed. Then I went straight to my own account.) Here’s […]

Your loved one is buried far away, and you can’t visit. A volunteer down the road from that cemetery will go for you. Here’s how to ask, or how to do the favor for someone else.

Your car is a rolling computer, and mechanics know its hidden tricks. Here’s how to find your vehicle with your head, dodge a $2,500 repair and more.

Looking for a Life360 alternative? Kim Komando found a family location app that never sells your data. What it does, how to set it up, the fine print and her exclusive deal.

You handed your license to a rental desk or a package counter. A middleman you never heard of kept a copy. Now crooks are selling it. Here’s why watching your SSN alone isn’t enough anymore.

Your friend’s AI may have a file on you: where you live, your birthday, your money goals, even the fights you’ve patched up. You never signed up. Here’s what Meta’s Muse collects and the moves that keep you out of it.

Google’s AI Mode will track flight prices and email you when they drop. It can’t buy anything, which is exactly why you should use it.