Use AI to find the cheapest way to upgrade your flight
Cash, miles, points, elite perks and wait lists make airline upgrades a mess. This AI prompt compares every option and shows you what each upgrade really costs before you spend a dime.
A dozen of you asked me this in one week. No, your mother does not need a self-driving car. Nobody sells one anyway.
No car for sale drives itself, friend. Not even the one with Full Self-Driving on the window sticker. Don’t buy your mom the car. Set up the rides on her phone instead. Ten minutes, tops.
🤖 AI privacy report card: Which chatbots make the grade?
Not all AI bots guard your info the same. Here’s which ones are worst, what not to type and how to lock your data down.
For the first time ever, Apple announced new iPhones and made the old ones cost MORE. Here’s what’s driving the bump, and how to buy TVs, laptops and phones before prices climb again.
The iPhone 16 was $699 last Tuesday. The next day, it was $799. Same phone. Nothing changed. This is the first time Apple has raised prices on older iPhones at a launch event, and it’s not really about Apple. It’s about the chips inside everything you own, friend.
“We’ll just unplug it” isn’t a plan
Why the people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm, and what you can do about it
Google caught malware that uses AI to rewrite itself every hour. Here’s why your free antivirus may never see it coming, and the 10-minute fix.
Google caught malware that asks AI to rewrite its own code every hour, friend. Your free antivirus is checking mugshots against a face that keeps changing. Ten minutes today puts a real watcher on duty.
They took your kid’s phone this month. Next thing, your boss wants yours. Here’s what he can and can’t legally do.
New Jersey students handed over their phones on Sept. 1 under a new all-day ban. The same company making those locking pouches for schools sells a version for your workplace, and employers are buying. Know the line before the memo lands.
She hadn’t seen her childhood block in 70 years. Then she put on a headset in a California retirement home.
Sue Livingstone, 84, stood on her old street in Queens again. Ginny, 81, swam with dolphins. Bob, 83, hiked Glacier on his birthday with his wife of 61 years beside him. And the part nobody expected: Afterward, they all went to lunch. Together, friend.
Six things TV installers and calibrators know that nobody says at the register, including why your price match gets denied and why your TV is dimming itself.
The picture mode the store set is wrong on purpose. Your TV is dimming itself. And that model number was written to make sure Best Buy never has to match Costco’s price. Six insider fixes, friend, and they’re all free.
On September 11, the phones didn’t break. They filled up. Here’s what still worked.
Twenty-five years ago, millions of Americans picked up the phone at the same moment, and most of them couldn’t get through. The network wasn’t destroyed. It was busy. That continues to happen in hurricanes and blackouts, and there are four things you can set up tonight that make you reachable when everyone else isn’t.
🧠 How to see and delete what ChatGPT remembers about you
ChatGPT keeps a running profile of you, and the Memory Summary may not show everything it remembers from past chats. Here’s how to read and clean it up.
Make AI run the break-even mortgage math the bank skipped
That $200-a-month refi savings pitch can cost you way more than you’re saving. Here’s the exact prompt to paste into any AI chatbot so it does the loan officer’s math for you, in your favor, before you sign anything.
The ads were timed on seven streaming services. Here’s who steals the most from your evening and which ad-free upgrade is worth it.
Prime Video doubled its ad load since launch. HBO Max went up and never announced it. But the service that feels the worst isn’t the one taking most of your time. Here are the stopwatch numbers and the one upgrade worth your $10 a month.
Same towers, half the bill: A couple paying $200 a month asked me what the catch is. Here are all three.
After 20 years of marriage, Dave and his wife agree on one thing: $200 a month for two phones feels wrong. The same signal sells for half. There’s a catch, friend. Three, actually. All smaller than the one they’re living with.
Your ring and watch are guessing. Calorie counts miss by up to 93%, and sleep stages are a bluff. Here’s how to wear one without letting it lie to you.
Stanford tested seven fitness trackers against lab gear. Heart rate passed. Calories missed by up to 93%, friend. Your ring is guessing at sleep stages and blood oxygen. Here’s how to stop it from fooling you.
Companies will pay you to catch chatbots making stuff up. Here’s how much, where to apply and the fake ‘AI trainer’ jobs to dodge.
AI chatbots get facts wrong, friend, and companies pay $15 to $40 an hour if you can catch their errors. Nurses earn $85. No degree needed to start. Here’s where to sign up safely.
Musk wants a chip in your skull. Altman paid to have his brain uploaded. Thiel got asked whether humans should survive, and paused.
Three men who already own your feed, your search box and your AI have a plan for the inside of your head, friend. It has a name, it’s not science fiction and nobody asked you.
The defense secretary’s driver’s license was for sale on the dark web. A listener asks: Why bother protecting yours?
Cameron in Houston figures identity protection is a lost cause when even Pete Hegseth’s driver’s license hit the dark web. Kim’s answer: Leaked data is only step one. Here’s where you still win.
The Labor Day watch list: Dolly’s ‘9 to 5’ kicks off seven shows and movies about work this weekend, plus the free site that shows where each one streams.
We lost Dolly Parton last month, friend. So the Labor Day watch list starts with her: seven shows and movies about work, Succession to the GameStop story, with a trailer for each and directions to find streaming.