Tech/Gear

If you have ever searched for a home online, you know the routine. Set a price range. Click a few filters. Run the search. Start over. Again and again.Now imagine skipping all of that and simply saying, "I want a home near good schools with high ceilings, a short commute and a kitchen that feels modern." Then the platform responds like it already understands what matters most to you. Well, […]

If your social media feed feels noisier, stranger or more manipulated than it used to, you're not alone. The internet runs on its own language now, and those buzzwords quietly shape what you see, what you don't see and how companies target you. From viral "slop" content to shadowbans and targeted ads, these terms influence how information spreads and how platforms treat your account.Let's break down five key phrases so […]

Tax season no longer begins in April. For scammers, it starts the moment the calendar flips to January. While you're waiting for your W-2 or 1099 to arrive, cybercriminals are already sending out waves of fake IRS messages, "refund problem" alerts and account verification scams. These messages feel alarmingly real, and that's not an accident.The truth is, today's tax scams don't rely on random guessing. They rely on your personal data, […]

The whole country is watching the Nancy Guthrie case. When the suspected kidnapping happened, I was curious. How long would it take me to find her home address and cell phone number on a people search site?About 30 seconds.STOP FOREIGN-OWNED APPS FROM HARVESTING YOUR PERSONAL DATAI then pasted her address into Zillow and saw photos of her home. I could match what I found to the video from a home […]

If you use an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Apple TV, listen up. Apple has released a major security update to fix a zero-day vulnerability, which is a security hole that hackers discover and exploit before the company has a chance to fix it. Attackers were already using it in targeted attacks. In other words, this was not just a possibility. It was happening.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20700, affects multiple […]

If you read newsletters to stay informed, here is an update worth paying attention to. Substack, a popular platform where writers, journalists and creators send email updates directly to subscribers, has confirmed a data breach that exposed user data.The company says the exposed information includes email addresses, phone numbers and internal account metadata. More sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card numbers and financial information, was not affected. That is […]

When you hear the word robotics, you probably think of factory machines or humanoid robots sprinting across a test track. That image makes sense. For years, robotics lived in labs and industrial spaces. But a quieter shift is happening much closer to home. It is happening around your ankles, knees and hips. Wearable robotics are moving out of research labs and into everyday life. From powered shoes to lightweight exoskeletons, this […]

Fake browser extensions are nothing new, but this one takes things a step further by deliberately breaking your computer to scare you into infecting it.Security researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome and Edge extension called NexShield that pretends to be a fast, privacy-friendly ad blocker. Once installed, it crashes your browser on purpose and then tricks you into "fixing" the problem by running dangerous commands on your own PC.Sign up […]

It started with a voicemail from a Hertz rental car location in Miami, Florida. A 57-year-old woman in Los Alamitos, California, was asked when she planned to return a Mercedes-Benz she had never rented. A thief had stolen her driver's license, replaced the photo with their own and used it to rent the vehicle. The same identity was used to open a credit card account, book airline tickets and reserve […]