June 10, 2026

🧑‍🏭 The welder of Oz

Juan Hernandez didn’t join SpaceX as a hoodie-wearing founder. He joined as a welder making $28 an hour. When he became full-time, SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock. He kept buying more, sold some to buy Texas properties, and now his remaining shares are worth around $880,000. I’ve talked about how in-demand the trades are, […]

June 9, 2026

A reader drove China’s $10,300 EV and wants one. Here’s why he can’t have it, and how America fights back

Mark in San Diego test-drove the BYD Seagull in China and would buy one tomorrow. Kim breaks down the national security reason he can’t and the $200 billion American factory boom answering the challenge.

June 8, 2026

Your dentist’s billing company just exposed 2.6 million people’s personal data

A hacker group called ShinyHunters broke into DentaQuest, one of the biggest dental benefits administrators in the country, and leaked 234 gigabytes of data after the company refused to pay. If you’ve ever been on Medicaid or Medicare Advantage, your name, address, birthdate, government ID and health insurance details may now be public. Here’s what to do right now.

June 7, 2026

Crooks are using your Social Security number to build a fake person. It’s the fastest-growing crime in America.

They take one real number, usually a child’s or a senior’s, glue on a fake name and birthday, then create a brand-new “person” who racks up credit and vanishes. You don’t find out until your file is wrecked. Here’s how to catch it.

June 5, 2026

Medical devices in your home are quietly reporting on you to your insurer, which can cost you more.

That CPAP machine? It tells your insurance company whether you used it enough. And it’s not the only device in your house keeping score. Here’s what’s phoning home while you sleep and what you can do about it.

June 4, 2026

Your credit card sends a fake number every time you tap. Here’s why that’s good news.

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.

June 3, 2026

A private company has 80,000 cameras logging where your car goes. Now it’s adding drones.

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.

June 2, 2026

Sailed Carnival, Princess or Holland America? Hackers got your passport number

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.

AI predicted a Category 5 hurricane 5 days early. The same tech is in your weather app.

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.

May 30, 2026

You deleted it. Now it’s gone everywhere.

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

May 29, 2026

The scammers who faked her daughter’s voice already had a file on the family

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.

May 28, 2026

The secret formula Netflix uses to make you watch terrible movies

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.

May 26, 2026

Your Spectrum bill isn’t the only thing they took. Hackers claim 42 million customer records.

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.

May 24, 2026

How to know if your identity has already been stolen, and what to do right now

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.

May 23, 2026

Every color laser printer in America secretly encodes your identity on every page you print. Here’s what those dots say.

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.

May 21, 2026

Google’s AI gives strangers your phone number

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.

May 17, 2026

The next big identity theft target isn’t your Social Security number. It’s your camera roll.

A passport pic on your phone sells for $600 on the dark web. Your photos contain GPS coordinates, faces, license plates and the inside of your house. The five photos to delete tonight.

May 15, 2026

Instagram killed your DM encryption. Here’s what Meta can see now.

As of May 8, Instagram removed end-to-end encryption from direct messages. Every photo, voice note and message you send is readable by Meta and shareable with law enforcement.

May 14, 2026

Your car has been logging your texts, contacts, garage codes and home address. The free site that shows you exactly what’s in there.

Most cars sold since 2018 are basically smartphones with seats. And 8 out of 10 used cars still have prior owners’ data sitting inside. Punch in your VIN and see yours.

May 13, 2026

Texas says Netflix was spying on your kids. And selling it.

Texas sued Netflix for secretly tracking your family’s every click and handing the data to strangers. Here’s exactly what got collected, how dark patterns kept you hooked and what to do about it right now.