Tag: family

Father’s Day gifts Dad will actually use

Inside: Ten thoughtful finds for every kind of dad. On sale and up to half off.

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.

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.

How to find a veteran’s military records before they’re gone forever

You can pull your veteran’s actual handwritten draft card, service records and medals, most of it for free. Here’s where to look.

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.

Paste any sketchy text into ChatGPT. It tells you in 5 seconds if you should delete it.

The one-line prompt that turns your favorite chatbot into a smishing detector. Save it once. Use it forever.

How I found 11 hidden cameras in one Airbnb (and how to sweep your next room)

I scrolled past the cable channels on the TV remote and saw live feeds of every room of the place I was staying in. The host’s excuse? “I forgot.” Here’s how to sweep your next rental in two minutes.

Two clicks to find your home

Remember the last time you felt unsafe? Here’s what nobody told you. They didn’t need to hack anything. They just had to search.

‘Mom. He’s gone.’ A babymoon. A body. An $18,000 wire. And the cry for help wasn’t real.

A daughter calls sobbing from Mexico. Her husband is dead. She needs cash right away to bring his body home. The voice was perfect. It was AI. Choose the single word that can stop it.

Canvas just got hacked. 275 million students exposed. The 5 steps to take tonight.

If your kid does homework through Canvas, listen up. Hackers stole 3.65 terabytes of data, including names, emails, student ID numbers and billions of private messages between kids and teachers. They’ve given Canvas’ parent company 48 hours to pay or they leak everything. Here’s exactly what to do before the clock runs out.

We stopped talking to our kids. The damage is permanent.

A WSJ study found Americans speak 28% fewer words daily than we did in 2005. Parents on phones speak 16% fewer words to babies. That silence is stealing our children’s future vocabulary.

Your passwords are already for sale. Here’s the proof.

A family member didn’t believe stolen passwords were for sale online. So I showed him. What we found for $12 will make you change every login tonight.

ChatGPT has been building a file on you. Here’s what’s in it and how to clear it.

Memory is on by default. Deleting your chats doesn’t delete what it knows. And a court order means some of that data was never going anywhere. Here’s how to audit it.

Your ex has your Social Security number. Here’s what they can do with it.

Divorce, breakups, estranged family. Millions of people handed over their most sensitive info to someone they no longer trust. Here’s the damage they can do and how to stop it.

Mom-umental gift ideas for Mother’s Day

Inside: A smart photo frame that updates itself, a keepsake journal, gift boxes and more items she’ll use and brag about.

Your state is sitting on a share of $70 billion in forgotten money. AI finds yours in 5 minutes.

The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators says 33 million Americans have cash waiting at state treasuries. Almost 1 in 7 of us. My neighbor Donna collected an $847 deposit from a 1994 apartment. Here’s the exact AI hunt that finds yours.

YouTube just joined the streaming hike parade. June 7 is your deadline.

YouTube Premium jumps to $15.99 on June 7. Netflix is already $26.99. The average household pays $972 a year for streaming. Here’s the playbook to slash your bill before the next hike hits.

Gone but not offline

The U.S. Patent Office handed Meta the legal right to simulate you after you’re gone. Your posts, comments and voice messages are the training data. Here’s what you need to do about it today.

Your grocery store loyalty card is selling your health data. Here’s the proof.

Every swipe builds a profile. And it’s ending up in the hands of health insurers, data brokers and companies you’ve never heard of.

Your emoji means something completely different to your kids. Here’s the decode

You sent a thumbs-up. They took it as passive-aggressive. You used the skull. They thought you were hilarious. Nobody told you the rules changed.