The password rules you hate came from one man’s 2003 memo, and he’s sorry
Capital letter, number, symbol, change every 90 days. One government engineer invented all of it, then admitted it made your passwords worse. Here’s what actually works.
Capital letter, number, symbol, change every 90 days. One government engineer invented all of it, then admitted it made your passwords worse. Here’s what actually works.
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.
Every major video platform has AI built in to record, transcribe and summarize your meetings. Here’s what to check and what actually matters.
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.
The average American overpays $427 yearly on insurance. Companies recalculate your rates constantly but never lower them automatically. Here are the AI prompts that audit your coverage and give you the exact script to negotiate.
Microsoft just sounded the alarm on a scam exploding across American workplaces. Hackers are sliding into Microsoft Teams posing as your help desk and talking employees into handing over their computers. Here’s the exact playbook, and the three moves that shut it down cold.
The blue area is what AI could do. The red area is what it’s actually doing. That gap is the most important thing you’ll look at today.
That “urgent” IRS message could cost you big. Here’s how to make sure your refund doesn’t land in a scammer’s bank account.
Kim Komando scouts the hidden risks of hitting unsubscribe on junk mail. Learn why one in 644 of these links is a trap designed to steal your data and how to use built-in email safety tools to stay protected.
Criminals used a tiny typo in an email address to steal $400,000 worth of lobster. Read this warning from The Current on how to stop digital impersonators from stealing your assets.
Retailers are using AI to fight fraud, but it’s flagging honest folks like you.
Think lawyers are charging too much? Kim Komando explains how the billable hour is changing and what AI can replace for pennies.
I’ve been making ChatGPT fight Google Gemini, and man, one of them is getting smoked.
You are going to love this. I know it. Why? Because we’ve all done it. You toss ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity or, God forbid, Siri a simple question, and it vomits. Or you tell it, “Write an email,” and out comes a mushy blob of corporate buzzwords no real human would ever say. If you […]
Quick question: When’s the last time you really knew if you were chatting with a real human on a customer-service call? Turns out, in more places than you think, it’s not a person at all. It’s AI. That might be fine when you’re asking a dumb question like, “What time do you close?” But what […]
Imagine boarding a plane, looking toward the cockpit … and no one’s there. No captain, no copilot. Just empty seats and a glowing dashboard. Sounds like sci-fi, right? Nope, it’s real, and it’s already flying. A company called Reliable Robotics (paywall link) just pulled it off with a Cessna 208B Caravan. This is a rugged, […]
The other day, I needed to round up every single email about the never-ending trouble we’ve had with our pool builder. We’re talking years of back-and-forth, buried in thousands of emails. Doing it manually would have taken me days and put me in a really nasty bad mood as I was reliving the horror. Cue […]
You’ve got 13 seconds to undo, unplug, swipe or save your digital dignity. That’s your window to salvage your glitchy app, that accidental “Reply All” email or your phone freezing mid-sentence. Don’t scream, at least not yet. ☕ 1. Spilled something on your laptop? Flip it upside down. Immediately. Don’t sit there staring at the […]
It doesn’t bother me anymore, but it used to. Maybe it’s happened to you. You’re in a Zoom call, wearing pajama bottoms, and someone casually says, “Oh, my AI assistant is taking notes of everything everyone is saying.” Wait, what?! There’s a digital stenographer silently documenting every sigh, awkward pause and half-baked idea you mutter? […]