Kim Komando

Tapping may feel less secure than the old swipe, but it’s actually the safest way to pay in person. Here’s the hidden trick your card pulls off in under a second and the one payment method you should quit today.

Those little cameras on the poles in your neighborhood quietly record every car that passes, then feed one giant searchable map. You never agreed to it, and the company behind them started flying drones that read your plate from 2,000 feet. Here’s what’s really happening.

One employee got tricked. One click. And nearly 6 million cruisers had their passport numbers, birth dates and licenses stolen. Here’s the 3-minute fix.

While the old supercomputer models were still guessing, an AI nailed Hurricane Melissa’s path days ahead of time. Here’s how it works, plus the free apps that put that forecasting power in your pocket today.

Insurance AI denies claims in seconds, how to fight back with your own AI, 180-day appeal window, EOB explainer, Device Advice tip, Gmail trick.

Two listeners thought they had backups. They didn’t. Here’s the difference that could save your photos, files and five years of memories.

The average cardholder leaves $300 to $500 in unclaimed benefits on the table every year. One prompt finds the money in five minutes.

A Bay Area mom lost thousands after AI cloned her daughter’s voice to fake a kidnapping. Everyone’s talking about the voice clone. Nobody’s asking how scammers knew exactly who to call.

AI shopping is here, which means fewer browser tabs and more danger for your wallet. This copy-paste prompt turns ChatGPT into a no-nonsense shopping assistant before you spend a dime.

Red Notice was savaged by critics. Netflix called it their most-watched film. Both things are true. Here’s the manipulation hiding in plain sight.

Every major video platform has AI built in to record, transcribe and summarize your meetings. Here’s what to check and what actually matters.

The group that hit Ticketmaster just targeted your internet provider. Here’s what was stolen, why Charter’s statement doesn’t add up and what to do before May 27.

From an AI that reads your emails around the clock to smart glasses that snap photos without your phone, Google I/O 2026 was really one big announcement: Google wants in. Every door. Here’s what that means for you.

You can pull your veteran’s actual handwritten draft card, service records and medals, most of it for free. Here’s where to look.

You don’t have to wait for disaster. These are the warning signs and the free checks that tell you whether someone is living as you.

The Secret Service asked printer companies to embed invisible tracking dots on every page, starting in the 1980s. The dots reveal your printer’s serial number, the date and exact time of printing. The program never stopped.

Gmail. Google Drive. Google Photos. All of it gone after two years of no activity. And without a legacy contact set up, your family can’t access any of it if something happens to you. Here’s how to fix it today.

A $120 monthly fee can become a $2,000+ renewal with one tiny clause. This’ll give you copy-paste AI prompts to turn contracts into plain-English risk checklists, negotiation emails and signing summaries before your deposit gets politely abducted.

A man’s phone rang for a month straight after Google’s AI handed his number to anyone who asked. Here’s the data broker pipeline that made it happen, and the only move that protects you.