November 5, 2026
Your health plan renews with new rules for 2027. Here’s how AI can check it first

Your health plan renews with new rules for 2027. Here’s how AI can check it first

Employers expect health costs per worker to jump, benchmark marketplace plans cost more and Medicare’s yearly drug cap is rising. If you do nothing, most plans renew with the new rules baked in. Here’s the exact prompt that makes AI read your plan documents and flag every price, drug and network change before your deadline.

November 1, 2026
Millions of clocks changed themselves last night. The signal came from a radio tower in a Colorado field.

Millions of clocks changed themselves last night. The signal came from a radio tower in a Colorado field.

Your “atomic” clock fell back an hour on its own thanks to one government radio station and 16 atomic clocks in Boulder. Last winter, a power outage made official U.S. time slip. Here’s the story, plus the gadgets you still need to fix by hand.

October 20, 2026
🎚️ These settings make ChatGPT stop sounding like a cheerleader

🎚️ These settings make ChatGPT stop sounding like a cheerleader

ChatGPT has five settings that control how it talks to you, and most people have never opened them. Here’s the 60-second setup for work, the prompt that proves it worked and the one setting that can quietly undo all of it. What’s new: These dials have been sitting inside ChatGPT since last December, and almost […]

October 9, 2026
Meta’s new AI agent, Muse, builds a detailed profile of everyone in your life and updates it every hour. Here’s what’s in it and how to limit what it learns.

Meta’s new AI agent, Muse, builds a detailed profile of everyone in your life and updates it every hour. Here’s what’s in it and how to limit what it learns.

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.

September 28, 2026
How do we control AI? Here’s what to say when it comes up at dinner

How do we control AI? Here’s what to say when it comes up at dinner

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.

September 10, 2026
🧠 How to see and delete what ChatGPT remembers about you

🧠 How to see and delete what ChatGPT remembers about you

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.

August 20, 2026
⚙️ Stop retyping the same ChatGPT prompt: 3 settings that make it work your way

⚙️ Stop retyping the same ChatGPT prompt: 3 settings that make it work your way

Custom Instructions, Memory and Temporary Chat are already in your ChatGPT app. Here’s the 60-second setup for each, the instructions to paste and the privacy catch on incognito chats.

June 12, 2026
Scammers are mailing fake VA benefit postcards to veterans across the country

Scammers are mailing fake VA benefit postcards to veterans across the country

The VA issued an official warning June 10 about a wave of fraudulent postcards claiming veterans qualify for extra benefits through something called the “Veterans Savings Program.” No such program exists. The goal is to get you on the phone so scammers can steal your Social Security number and bank account information. Here’s what to do if one shows up in your mailbox.

April 24, 2026
Four companies control your printer. And your wallet.

Four companies control your printer. And your wallet.

HP just bricked another batch of printers with a firmware lock. Here’s the part nobody talks about: Four companies run the entire printer market, and they’ve been charging you perfume prices for a decade.

April 14, 2026
A booby-trapped PDF can take over your computer. Adobe just fixed it. Update now.

A booby-trapped PDF can take over your computer. Adobe just fixed it. Update now.

Hackers have been exploiting a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Reader since December. Opening a single PDF is all it takes. Here’s the two-minute fix.

November 26, 2025
Porch pirates are hacking tracking numbers to beat you home

Porch pirates are hacking tracking numbers to beat you home

Someone dressed as a trash bag to steal packages? That actually happened.

March 8, 2025
How to train your autocorrect to actually work

How to train your autocorrect to actually work

Steps to make autocorrect on Apple iPhone and Android work for you.

December 21, 2024
google maps update

Tech tip: Share your ETA on the go

Running late? I’ll explain how to share your ETA on the go with this handy hidden maps app feature.