Kim Komando

A friendly recruiter, a real job site, two rounds of interviews and a “take-home test.” That test was malware, and it opened the door to the biggest crypto heist ever. Here are the red flags every job hunter needs to know, plus the protection that checks files before they can do damage.

Senators want to know if Meta’s camera glasses are sending images of strangers into AI training. Samsung’s camera glasses land in December. Here’s how to protect yourself from someone else’s specs, and the one setting every owner should flip today.

Employers expect health costs per worker to jump, benchmark marketplace plans cost more and Medicare’s yearly drug cap is rising. If you do nothing, most plans renew with the new rules baked in. Here’s the exact prompt that makes AI read your plan documents and flag every price, drug and network change before your deadline.

Smart locks, smart garage doors and Wi-Fi everything are great until the electricity stops. Here’s what keeps working in a blackout, what quits, the $60 gadget that keeps your Wi-Fi alive and the weekend drill that gets you ready.

Your phone can sit on hold for you, one email can go straight to the CEO’s office and a free federal complaint forces your internet company to answer in 30 days. Plus California’s new right-to-a-human law and what it means for everybody else.

That’s Intelligent UI. With GPT-6, ChatGPT can answer with things you click and drag instead of a wall of text: buttons, forms, charts and checklists.

A teen “speed game,” a man who can’t remember raising his kids and a company that kept the feature up for 7½ years. Here’s what happened, and what to switch on tonight.

Real logos, real product photos, a countdown clock and nothing ever arrives. One scam checker flagged more than 100,000 fake shopping sites this year. Here are the five tells of a fake store, plus the free move that gets your money back.

Your “atomic” clock fell back an hour on its own thanks to one government radio station and 16 atomic clocks in Boulder. Last winter, a power outage made official U.S. time slip. Here’s the story, plus the gadgets you still need to fix by hand.

A scene shortened, a swear word muted, a shot digitally touched up, sometimes with no warning label. Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video have all streamed altered versions of classics. Here’s the 2-minute check that tells you which cut you’ve got.

A scene shortened, a swear word muted, a shot digitally touched up, sometimes with no warning label. Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video have all streamed altered versions of classics. Here’s the 2-minute check that tells you which cut you’ve got.

That Pandora login from 2012 is still out there with your name, email and old password. Here’s how to find every forgotten account in 15 minutes and shut it down before hackers dig it up.

The Door Kick Challenge is back, and police from Massachusetts to Kansas warn it could end with someone getting shot. Before trick-or-treat night, set up your doorbell cam to catch faces, save the clip and keep your family safe.

About 1 in 19 U.S. kids has a food allergy, and the fun-size version of a candy doesn’t always match its full-size twin’s ingredients. Here’s how to get AI to inventory the haul, build a sibling trade sheet and schedule the eating, while you still check every wrapper yourself.

Your kid’s school software and your DNA kit both leaked your family’s most personal data. Here’s how to freeze, delete and get your info off the market.

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ChatGPT just rolled out Locked Chats, a feature that hides any conversation behind a four-digit PIN or Face ID so it disappears from your sidebar and search results entirely. Before you lock anything, run a quick prompt asking ChatGPT what it remembers about you that you would not want a client to see on your screen, because locking a chat does not erase what it already memorized.

Every bank password reset lands in one inbox, which most of us use for coupons and newsletters. Here’s the free fix that cuts crooks off at the door.

The first Wi-Fi 8 routers are on sale before the standard is even finished, and they’re no faster than Wi-Fi 7. Here’s the 15-minute fix that beats any new router.