đ© Email espionage: Hackers are using compromised government emails to steal business info. Hereâs how it works: You get an email about an emergency data request from the âfederal government,â and the email address looks legit. Itâs not. If you open the attachment or click a link, youâve just landed a one-way ticket to malware. This kind of request will never come in the form of an email, folks.
Tags: compromised, email attachments, espionage, government, malware
Ah, the wide world of tech myths. Iâve heard âem all:
Macs are immune to viruses. Stick a wet phone in rice and itâll be as good as new. Always run your battery down to 0% before you charge.
Iâve heard it all on my national radio show. There was the guy totally freaked out because too many strangers in public knew his name for it to be a coincidence. (His name was Buddy.)
There was a woman who swore one of Metallicaâs band members hacked her iPhone to stalk her after she rejected him online. And another who bought and sold three cars because she thought they all had hidden trackers.
đČ The No. 1 show on Netflix right now is âMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.â It dives into the true story of two brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1996. They said a lifetime of abuse drove them to it; prosecutors argued it was all about inheriting the family fortune.
Manufactured by Anova, it uses an internal camera to recognize your food and tell you how to cook it. It uses both wet and dry heat, like ovens in restaurants. In the future, the Precision Oven 2.0 will spot cooking mistakes before a dish is ruined.
đŹ Plot twist: âHereâ follows Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, de-aged entirely by AI. A few years ago, this wouldnât have been possible without Marvel-level budgets. Now? Theyâre pulling it off for $50 million. The trailer gave me goosebumps!
Hackers are demanding ransom from Franceâs Schneider Electric. If they donât get it, theyâll spill 40GB of stolen data, including company projects, employee details and customer info. Talk about handing over the dough.
Opened at the same time will crash the Outlook app. Microsoft isn’t sure why, but it might be due to overloading the working memory. Iâll keep you posted when a fix is out. I was on the fence about buying Office 365. I shook a Magic 8 Ball, and it said, âOutlook not good!â
For automaker GM, which sold 32,000 electric vehicles in the U.S. during the third quarter. Ford insists theyâre still in the second spot, claiming âGM is adding every brand EVâ they sell, including Chevy, GMC and Cadillac. You guessed it â Tesla remains No. 1. You know what they say: 95% of electric cars are still on the road; the other 5% made it all the way home.
