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ADT got hacked again. Your address may be out there.

The company paid to protect your home just got burglarized. For the third time. And it’s not just an ADT problem.

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.

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.

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.

The password is dying. Microsoft, Google and Amazon already started replacing yours.

A passkey is sitting in your phone. Most people don’t know they have one. Here’s how to get organized before the transition happens to you.

5 things making all your tech miserable right now (and how to fix every one)

Your phone, computer, Wi-Fi, battery and sanity all need the same thing: five minutes and this list.

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.

That store camera isn’t just watching for shoplifters. It’s watching you.

Every time you walk into a grocery store, a big box retailer or a pharmacy, AI-powered cameras track how you move, where you linger and what you almost bought. Here’s what they know.

Four humans flew around the moon. Here’s the technology that got them there.

Yesterday, four humans flew 252,757 miles from Earth, swinging around the lunar far side in a spacecraft the size of a minibus. They broke a record that had stood since 1970 when Apollo 13 limped past the moon, trying to get its crew home alive. The Artemis II voyagers woke up to Chappell Roan’s “Pink […]

5 weirdly popular YouTube channels you’ve never heard of (but won’t be able to stop watching)

Millions of people have leaped down these rabbit holes. This Friday, you will, too.

Every movie you bought on Apple TV, Amazon and Google Play can vanish overnight

When you buy a digital movie, you’re not buying anything. You’re renting it. Until you’re not. Here’s how to protect what you’ve already paid for.

Your router has an expiration date, and you probably already missed it

Most Americans are running routers that stopped getting security updates years ago. The FCC just made it a national security issue. Here’s what to do.

There’s a new kind of camera spreading across America. It doesn’t care how fast you’re going. It’s listening.

No radar gun. No officer. Just a very patient microphone running 24 hours a day. And the tickets are already in the mail.

Your insurer’s AI rejected your claim in one second. Here’s the federal process they hope you never find out about.

One major insurer’s algorithm was denying 90% of claims in under a second with no doctor review. There’s a federal appeals process by which an outside physician can overrule them, and most people have never heard of it. Here’s the exact prompt that writes your appeal.

She chats with him every day. He’s stolen her heart and possibly her savings.

A 78-year-old mom has a “boyfriend” in Nigeria. He’s almost 30 years younger. He’s promised to visit four times. Something always comes up.

Your email inbox is the skeleton key to your entire life

If someone gets into your email, they own every account you have. Here are the three moves that lock them out for good.

Your phone has an expiration date. Here’s how to find yours.

Right now, over a billion phones are running without security updates, and hackers know it. Your phone is probably fine. But you should check. Takes 30 seconds.

Data brokers are selling lists of the recently widowed, diagnosed and broke. Here’s who’s buying.

It’s not your credit score they want. It’s your worst moment. Already packaged. Already sold.

Airplane mode, background apps, Incognito: The tech advice you’ve been following for nothing

I was on a plane last week, and they still say it. Buckle up, because almost everything you’ve been told to do with your tech is either outdated, wrong or something a company made up to cover themselves.