Crooks are gearing up for their busiest season yet. Here’s what to watch for and why ID theft protection has to cover scams, too.
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.
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.
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.
Luke Saintignan of Longview, Texas, uses two home 3D printers to build free mobility chairs for little kids. Volunteers like him have built 1,400 of them in 49 countries, and more than 1,000 families are waiting for one. Here’s how you can help, with or without a printer.
Most Prime members use free shipping and watch a movie now and then. Meanwhile, free food delivery, gas discounts, unlimited photo storage, free books and cheap prescriptions sit untouched. Here’s how to claim them tonight.
Campaigns have spent $80 million on AI-generated ads that put words in mouths and stage scenes that never happened. Most carry no AI label. Here’s how to spot a fake in seconds.
Your loved one is buried far away, and you can’t visit. A volunteer down the road from that cemetery will go for you. Here’s how to ask, or how to do the favor for someone else.
Your friend’s AI may have a file on you: where you live, your birthday, your money goals, even the fights you’ve patched up. You never signed up. Here’s what Meta’s Muse collects and the moves that keep you out of it.
A listener asked how HeyPolo stacks up against Life360. The real question is who’s making money off your family’s location.
Bill Gates just said on “Meet the Press” that AI could cause a billion deaths. Every news media is running that story today. The scarier part was quieter.
Scammers grab your address from a people-search site, pull your house from Google Street View and mail you a threat with your own driveway on it. Nobody hacked your webcam, friend. Here’s what to do and how to cut off their supply.
Grandma says the chin is Grandpa’s. Your sister says the kid is all you. Upload three photos and let AI referee. Five prompts, one warning about privacy and the science on who babies look like.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Americans reported $20.9 billion in scam losses last year. Seniors lost $584 million to romance scams, averaging $38,500 per victim. One reader’s brother is $45,000 deep with a fake pop star. The fix isn’t arguing. It’s a two-minute video call test and knowing the blackmail email is usually a bluff.
A Google Form, a calendar invite, a “Google Security” call, an AI Overview phone number. Four scams wear Google’s logo, friend, but the company insists it will never call you about security
Fake utility payment websites are getting harder to spot. Learn the one place to check before you enter your credit card, plus the warning signs that can save you from a costly mistake.
