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🧀 Don’t say this

December 23, 2024

Plus: Health care hack, scum on the App Store, last-minute gifts

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🚀 American data, up in space

December 22, 2024

Plus: Phone scam, AI starters, James Bond news

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📍 Hey, where are you?

December 21, 2024

Plus: Email scams surging, 5.6M health records leaked, fully AI school (no teachers)

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🪦 No one likes to talk about this

December 20, 2024

Plus: DJI drone ban, Steve Harvey’s not dead, Microsoft’s shameless plugs

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🛑 Every parent needs to read this

December 19, 2024

Plus: Chinese router ban, using AI for insurance appeals, the ChatGPT prompt I use most days

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🕵️ Tech without tracking

December 18, 2024

Plus: Body cams on Walmart greeters, DNA solves another cold case, last-minute Christmas cards

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👽 What’s really flying over New Jersey?

December 17, 2024

Plus: Job offer red flag, abusers using tech to track, Windows 11 update

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🤬 I got fed up, so I did something about it

December 16, 2024

Plus: Kitchen utensils poisoning food, real estate scam, DNA for sale

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✋ 5 clever tricks holiday scammers use

December 15, 2024

Christmas is close! They’re turning up the heat

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🎁 Best picks

December 15, 2024

Plus: Make money on TikTok, shipping scams, don’t use Windows Recall

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🛜 Hey! What’s the Wi-Fi password?

December 14, 2024

Plus: Stanley mug recall, poker cheaters, browser security setting that never worked

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🚦 Car spies

December 13, 2024

Plus: RIP Blu-ray players, update your iPhone, Microsoft’s bad advice

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🛑 Chase, Wells Fargo, BofA customers targeted

December 12, 2024

Plus: Siri’s big AI upgrade, dangerous TikTok trend, get two free e-books

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💝 Best gifts for $10, $20, $50

December 11, 2024

Plus: 660K vehicles recalled, $38,000 SIM swap attack, Amazon sells cars now

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🤫 Never say this to AI

December 10, 2024

Plus: Travel site warning, UFOs over NJ, RIP landlines

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☕ How billionaires start their days

December 9, 2024

Plus: Scammers’ fave area codes, a $166K mistake, AI’s spiking rental rates

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⚠️ Urgent: Watch out for this PayPal scam

December 8, 2024

Plus: TikTok ban, 80K speakers recalled, fight against LED headlights

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🔇 Do this before it’s too late

December 7, 2024

Plus: UnitedHealthcare murder mystery, better weather forecasts, $30K per post to make fun of people

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📲 Communist China reading your texts?

December 6, 2024

Plus: Diddy’s laptop, Android major update, Windows 10 drama

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✋ Block online tracking in a few clicks

December 5, 2024

Plus: FBI text warning, Walmart bought Vizio, Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay are live

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