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What you agree to when you tap Sign in with Google
The app gets your name, your email address, and your picture. It never gets your password. What each button hands over, why the one-basket worry has a real answer, and the page that lists every app you have ever signed into this way.
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September 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Save anything as a PDF. No printer required.
Every device has a printer in its list that makes a file instead of paper. How to save a receipt, a confirmation, or an article as one PDF on Windows, Android, iPhone and Mac, and where the file ends up.
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September 19, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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What incognito mode hides, and who still sees you
Private browsing keeps history, cookies, and form entries off the device you're sitting at, and that's the whole job. The websites, your internet provider, your employer's network, and any account you sign into still see you. What it's for, and what to use instead.
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September 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Claim your Social Security account before someone else does
Your earnings record and your direct deposit already live behind a login at ssa.gov, whether you ever made one or not. How to create the account with Login.gov, what to look at once you're in, and the separate lock for anyone who wants the online door closed entirely.
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September 16, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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You already use the Snipping Tool. Look at what it does now.
Two keys, drag a box, and the picture is on your clipboard. That part hasn't changed. What's new is everything sitting behind the buttons across the top, and most people have never pressed any of them.
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September 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Your smart TV can track what you watch.
Your TV can recognize what is on its own screen, including whatever comes in over HDMI. What the setting is called on each brand, and where to find it.
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September 6, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Also this week: a false antivirus warning, an FTC lawsuit over Amazon's ad prices, and 19 browser add-ons gone bad
A Windows pop-up is wrong about your antivirus. The FTC says Amazon padded its ad prices. Nineteen browser add-ons turned on their users. Android 17 shuts a door scammers use.
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September 5, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Cox Media Group told advertisers it was listening to you. The FTC says it never was.
The FTC fined Cox Media Group and two partners $930,000 over Active Listening, a service they said could pick up conversations from phones, TVs and smart speakers. It never collected a second of audio, and the tracking that really explains those eerie ads is duller and harder to escape.
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September 4, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Who is ShinyHunters, and why is that name in every breach letter?
A hacking group said it took millions of customer records. Somebody opened the file and counted. The first big number in a breach story is a count of rows, not people.
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September 3, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Ring is throwing away its key to your videos
Ring's next encryption default destroys its copy of your video keys after 24 hours. That closes a door Ring left open for years. It stops at the moment an owner shares a clip.
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September 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Does technology make us lonely?
Loneliness gets compared to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. The researcher behind that number keeps a page on her own website correcting how people quote it. Here is where it came from, who is loneliest, and what the evidence says about your phone.
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September 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Google will tell you when your address shows up in its search results
Google's Results about you tool watches Search for your address, your phone number, and since February your driver's license and Social Security numbers. Here is what it pulls down and what it will not touch.
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August 31, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Are you paying a different price than your neighbor?
Congress never gave the FTC the power to ban personalized pricing. What it can do is make stores admit to it, and it is taking comments until September 18.
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August 30, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Also this week: pricier Amazon devices, a $17 billion Meta settlement, and a check from Disney
Amazon raised the list price on its own devices. Meta settled the teen social media case for $17 billion. Disney owes streaming subscribers a check by September 8. And a gas alarm sold under 18 names on Amazon can stay silent.
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August 29, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Why is my Wi-Fi slow?
Buffering at eight, a dead back bedroom, one laptop that crawls. Those are different problems, and the checks that tell them apart cost nothing.
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August 28, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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What laptop specs actually matter in 2026?
A laptop price tag is covered in letters and numbers that were put there to sell you. Four of them decide whether you still like the machine in five years, and the one that matters most is often not printed at all.
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August 27, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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The GTA VI leak. How big leaks become bait.
Take-Two is pulling the CyberLeek clips as fast as they go up. The "archives" filling the gap are malware, and the pattern is older than this game.
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August 26, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Who is behind your child's GPS watch?
Consumer Reports found kids GPS trackers that skip the second login step, and the cheapest watches run on shared platforms the buyer cannot name. Here is how to check the one on your child's wrist.
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August 25, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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The post office already photographs your mail. It will send you the pictures.
USPS will email you a photo of the letters coming to your house that day, for free. Most eligible addresses have never turned it on.
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August 24, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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Can you stop AI companies from training on what you write?
The opt-out settings are real, they only work going forward, and they only bind companies that choose to honor them. What each one actually does, and the one place you have real power.
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August 23, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Also this week: an Apple alert, a Comcast deadline, and a teen account nobody asked for
Apple warned the people it thinks are spyware targets and shipped an update the rest of us should install, the Comcast breach claim deadline moved to September 14, ChatGPT started sorting its own users by age, and four states put Meta on trial in Oakland.
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August 22, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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What is a CPSC product safety warning?
A second kind of safety notice has grown to a fifth of the total, and it comes with no refund. Here is what to check before you buy a charger, a power strip, or a power bank.
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August 21, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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What you own when your printer is on a subscription
Cancel the subscription and the cartridge stops working, ink and all. HP writes it down, and so do Brother, Canon and Epson. What the contracts say, and how to leave without a dead printer.
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August 20, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Google is paying $68 million over Assistant recordings. Claims close 8/27.
The $18 to $56 estimate assumes almost nobody files. What the claim form actually asks for, which class needs a receipt, and why your Nest speaker is fine.
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August 19, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Do you need antivirus on a Mac?
macOS already runs three layers of protection for free. What XProtect and Gatekeeper cover, the one rule that does more than any scanner, and who should still install something.
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August 18, 2026 at 5:06 AM